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Interesting to see Davy Brion’s critique of MVVM and series explaining MVP in Silverlight/WPF . As a member of the Silverlight/WPF team, I want to ensure that our platforms enable exploring best practices for UI construction. I believe that Data Driven...
As always, love to see Silverlight/WPF community members publish info about their successes. Even better is when they share components, best practices, and fill in developer experience holes. Michael “ The Synergist ” Scherotter has published about...
Love this post by Michael Sorens about some essential tools. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is simultaneously enticing and intimidating. It offers potential for amazing flexibility in UI design but there is a mountain of learning to climb. At the...
Great news on Scott’s blog that Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 was released . And further details here: WPF and Silverlight Designer Blog: “ Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is now available! ” “Please Note: many of the new...
I’ve always loved the idea that Visual Studio could help you get started with a WPF application a bit more than is possible today. Today, we give you a blank project. Visual Studio still hasn’t found time to make this happen yet, but luckily its extensibility...
Rob Update – Looking forward I’m still spending time on .NET 4/VS 2010, but since January, I’ve also been doing more forward looking thinking. We have a long list of important things to do…I’m itching to engage on several fronts…lots of good stuff to...
Robby Ingebretsen, nerd + artist extraordinaire , just blogged a bit about his plans for taking Kaxaml forward in the WPF 4 and Silverlight 4 era: “ Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request ” He and I had a good chat last week over his plans and some of...
Pausing to think about next steps after making strong progress in the “ Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner ” journey in the last 10 days. 3 major things from that Exploring post that haven’t been tackled in XamlPadSample include: Silverlight support,...
Added support to store which projects each XAML file is associated with, along with app.xaml and assembly reference info. Notice that I’m using XAML2009 support for Name references in XAML . I’m able to define object graphs (not just trees) via this mechanism...
XamlPadSample step 1 sample code is now available for download from http://robrelyea.com/demos/XamlPadSample/XamlPadSample-2010-01-20.zip . It requires .NET 4 (although I’m not using Beta2, if you are still on Beta2, I think it will work. Please post...
I’ve been exploring XamlPad and XamlDesigner features built on top of .NET 4. I plan to ship a XamlPad+ sample soon. After that, I’d like to provide guidance and/or small samples for all of the other steps to enable the Xaml Tools out there to continue...
Best Week Ever This may have been the best ever week for XAML UI. I’m smiling! WPF 3 & WPF 4 I was excited about several exciting applications for Windows (built with WPF) shown or announced during PDC09 this week: 1) Microsoft Visual Studio...
Very happy to see our upcoming XAML Futures talk posted to MicrosoftPDC.com. Mike and I are looking forward to meeting you there! We are working hard to make it a great session. XAML Futures in Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight...
ScottGu’s recent WPF4 Beta2 post had a comment asking about obfuscation: # re: WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:58 AM by john Yeah, but what about the ability to obfuscate your WPF app? In WPF4 we haven’t improved that yet...
Very happy to see .NET 4 and VS2010 hitting the beta2 milestone . It is available today (October 19th) for MSDN subscribers, and will be available for everybody starting October 21st. The XAML team has been very busy since Beta1 , with a number of significant...
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