Archive for the MVVM Category
Posted on April 23, 2011 by Chris Koenig
Mark your calendars – it's time for the annual Tulsa School of Dev community conference! May 27, 2011 at 700 N Greenwood Ave in Tulsa, OK [bingMap location="700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106-0702" zoom="13"] 6 Tracks! 36 sessions! Amazing speakers! Tons of Prizes! All it takes to get in is a donation of [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2010 by Chris Koenig
A friend contacted me yesterday asking me how to enable some sort of side-to-side scrolling of images, similar to the way to that the Pictures Viewer works. He looked at taking a ListBox, turning it on its side and just scrolling sideways, but it didn’t give him the “feel” that he wanted. I thought it [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications, Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7 applications. Using design patterns that embody important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you to [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Yesterday at PDC10, Scott Guthrie demonstrated a Windows Phone 7 application that he was building using Silverlight. During this time, he mentioned that a new OData stack had been released for .NET which included an update to the library for Windows Phone 7. Now you might think that this was just a regular old upgrade [...]
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Posted on September 8, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Last night, I spoke at the Dallas XAML User Group and did a very interactive session on building WP7 applications using MVVM Light. After the talk, one of my favorite MVPs, Shawn Weisfeld, came up to me and told me that he was building a Silverlight application for one of his relatives who owns a [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I’ve done a TON of Windows Phone 7 demos over the past few months, and I get asked all the time for access to download my samples. I’ve been meaning to post this application since I started all of this, but just never got around to it. SO – here it is… the now Infamous [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2010 by Chris Koenig
For those of you that attended my talk at TechReady 11 or at Dallas TechFest 2010, here is the sample application I built along with my code snippets and my demo script. I’ll be working on a Hands-on-Lab version of this talk, as well as producing a video the talk, but that will have to [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Since I started using the MVVM Light toolkit, I’ve gotten lots of questions about the it. In this post, I’m going to show you the basics of using the Messaging infrastructure. In the sample application attached, we have the situation where a Master page with a list of data items is trying to move to [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while, but seeing a question on Stack Overflow tonight prompted me to do it tonight, so here goes. It’s relatively simple to add MVVM Light to an existing project. I’m going to use Silverlight as a sample, but you can do the same thing for WPF [...]
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