About a year ago, I wrote an article for SilverlightShow, titled “ A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM ”. The article introduced VSMChangerBehavior which allows tying enums in the ViewModel to Visual States in the View. Another Action shown off there is the CallDataContextMethodAction , which calls...
Long time no see for this blog. And how could it go forward other than a job advertisment? I promise I'll write up some more interesting stuff in the future, but for now the only thing I have in mind is this: NET library, GUI and framework developer (ref no: 77193) Position Description We are seeking...
You may have found yourself in a situation when you want to convert an implicit style in XAML into a resource. Until today, I did it with creating the new style, and adding the setters manually. But I thought “There must be some way in Expression Blend to do this better”. I couldn’t find anything on...
It is a great thing to announce that Dotneteers are now involved in the authoring team of a new book with working title “Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Six-in-One”. The book is to be published by Wrox in Q1 next year in a team work of ten, including well-known authors, Hungarian MVPs and...
I’ve been asked whether it is time to invest in WPF and Silverlight. What is the future of these platforms? Are they here to stay? Should a LOB development company invest time and energy in learning them? I think the answer is yes. Of course that is my biased opinion as these are the two technologies...
In the last week I saw a book with 20% discount on WPF: Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg and Cristopher Bennage, I decided to buy it. I have read a few great books about WPF, many of them treated the WPF and UX approach on its own way. However, those books either did not give too...
We are very proud, that not just one, but two of our WPF applications are featured in Microsoft's official WPF Showcase presentation. One of them is the Innovation award winner "Művész", (also featured as the first ever case study in The Architecture Journal) the other is our Organization...
Although Aghy beat me to it, let me also write some about the new .net Framework and VS versions just released. This Service Pack should really have been called .net 3.6, as apart from bug fixes and performance improvements, it brings a lot of new features to the table. Let's see what these are:...
I often find myself in the situation where I have to explain in 2 sentences what WPF and Silverlight is. Now, this is a very tricky question, especially if the person asking about these fine technologies is not a technical mind. Yeah, the official definition is that they are Microsoft's next generation...