Saturday, May 29, 2010

View Model Collection Properties for WCF RIA Services

View Model Collection Properties for WCF RIA Services

View Model Collection Properties for WCF RIA Services

Posted: 29 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT

For the most part combining WCF RIA Services with the MVVM pattern is easy. One area of difficulty is in exposing collections of entities from the ViewModel. This post is going to show some of the current possibilities including my favorite solution, Read More......(read more)

Drag & Drop Flexible Surface - Silverlight 4

Posted: 29 May 2010 08:26 AM PDT

This is a Simulation of a Flexible Surface Effect combined with drag & drop interactivity. View the example and download the sourcecode at the Expression Gallery . For the basic idea behind the Flexible Surface Effect please check also my following...( read more )...(read more)

Writing the tests for FluentPath

Posted: 28 May 2010 11:23 PM PDT

Writing the tests for FluentPath is a challenge. The library is a wrapper around a legacy API (System.IO) that wasn't designed to be easily testable. If it were more testable, the sensible testing methodology would be to tell System.IO to act against a mock file system, which would enable me to verify that my code is doing the expected file system operations without having to manipulate the actual, physical file system: what we are testing here is FluentPath, not System.IO. Unfortunately, that is not an option as nothing in System.IO enables us to plug a mock file system in. As a consequence, we are left with few options. A few people have suggested me to abstract my calls to System.IO away so that I could tell FluentPath – not System.IO – to...(read more)

Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th in New York City

Posted: 28 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Adam Kinney wrote that Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th. Here's what he had to say about it: Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th! Bill...( read more )...(read more)

Creating your First Silverlight Client Application: Twitter and COM, of course

Posted: 28 May 2010 03:55 PM PDT

I'm creating some "create your first" videos for MSDN, and thought it would be useful to offer up a text version of the Out-of-Browser one in addition to the video. In this example, we'll build a simple Twitter Search client, using Silverlight out-of...( read more )...(read more)

Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th in New York City

Posted: 28 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Adam Kinney wrote that Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th. Here's what he had to say about it: Expression Studio 4 will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June 7th! Bill...( read more )...(read more)

Creating your First Silverlight Client Application: Twitter and COM, of course

Posted: 28 May 2010 03:55 PM PDT

I'm creating some "create your first" videos for MSDN, and thought it would be useful to offer up a text version of the Out-of-Browser one in addition to the video. In this example, we'll build a simple Twitter Search client, using Silverlight out-of...( read more )...(read more)

Interactive Flexible Surface Effect - Silverlight 3

Posted: 28 May 2010 03:48 PM PDT

You can download a Silverlight 3 version of my solution for a Flexible Surface Effect (Silverlight 4) at the Expression Gallery . The Flexible Surface Effect allows you to click on the UI and the UI will react as if you tap with your finger on surface...( read more )...(read more)
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