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By default the WP7 emulator will not react to you typing on the keyboard, instead you have to use the mouse to press keys on the software keyboard that pops up. There is however a hidden feature that will let you use your hardware keyboard, just press...
Michael Kennedy , one of the co instructors from DevelopMentor , has created a combined feed from all the blogs of the various DevelopMentor. An awesome group of people with a lot of knowledge to share. Highly recommended in you RSS reader. http://feeds...
A recent article I wrote for the MSDN website just went live. Read is here .
Using the declarative DomainDataSource that is part of the upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA services makes it quite easy to work with data. All you need to do is add a DomainDataSource control to the the XAML, point it to the generated DomainContext class ...
The View – Model – ViewModel design pattern, also known as MVVM, is getting more popular these days. I have found it extremely easy to use when developing very different applications and have used the design pattern recently in both ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight...
Then you should check Mike Swanson’s blog post here . He has two batch files, the first downloads all MIX session recordings with in the format you like, the second renames them so it is easier to make sense of all the media file names. If you just want...
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The P&P team have just release a VB version of the Prism quick starts. You can download the goods here . Enjoy!
Last week lots of MVP, myself included, where in Redmond visiting Microsoft on our yearly MVP pilgrimage. The MVP Summit is always a great event. Not only do we get to talk to the MS team members who actually design and build all the software we love...
Roy Osherove has just released SilverUnit, a unit testing framework for Silverlight code. I haven't tried this yet but it certainly looks really interesting as you can start running your Silverlight unit tests inside of MS Test or NUnit. And kind...
The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft have just released Prism version 2. I am pretty exited about this because Prism version 2 supports both WPF and Silverlight. And as it makes extensive use of the Model - View - ViewModel amongst other design...
In my previous blog post I demonstrated how you can use Ninject in your Silverlight application to automatically inject dependencies and make live easier. In the sample I injected the dependency, the PingService, inside my PageModel constructor. That...
One useful feature when developing more complex code is using an inversion of control (IOC) container to do dependency injection. The basic principal of inversion of control, or dependency injection, is to pass in any dependencies when an object is created...
When developing Silverlight line of business (LOB) applications we often need to get at some data from a database. There are various ways to do so. One option that is easy to get started with with is creating an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (EDM) and exposing...
In a previous blog post I pointed out that quite a difference between data validation between Silverlight and WFP. As I don’t think adding data validation in the UI is a good thing I focused on validation in the business object by throwing an exception...
The DataContext is a wonderful property, you can set it somewhere in the logical tree and any child control can just bind to properties without having to know where the DataContext was set. A great capability that makes live much simpler when writing...
In my previous blog post I wrote about creating asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. This asynchronous testing capability that the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework has in the box lets us...
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 This post continues on my previous two post on using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here . In the second blog post I showed how to create a wrapper around the WebClient class...
When I am creating business applications validating the data in business objects, and displaying any errors, is always a big deal. Even though WPF and Silverlight both use XAML and support data binding the default way to display errors is quite different...
Last week logged about using a WrapPanel in a listBox and demonstrated how to get the content to wrap around, read about it here . Turns out the XAML can be even easier. In the previous post I used a ControlTemplate with a Grid to stop the WrapPanel from...
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my previous post I described the basic setup of unit testing in Silverlight, you can read all about it here . The basics where very nice but lots of code we write in Silverlight has to do with networking and in Silverlight...
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