Blogs|Apr 12, 2013

MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML

I have to admit that I may have rolled my eyes a bit when I first learned about the KnockoutJS library. It sounded too much like forcing a square peg into a round hole. Isn’t Model-View-Controller (MVC) already it’s own pattern? Does it make sense to apply something like Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) to HTML? I already…
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Blogs|Nov 26, 2012

Koch Snowflakes on Windows 8 with XAML

A few years back I wrote a little program that would generate Koch snowflakes in Silverlight. After brisk walk in the cold weather today, I decided it was time to port it over to Windows 8, more just to see how easy it would be. It turns out it only took about 5 minutes to…
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wintellect-blogs|Oct 30, 2012

Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML is Here!

“Jeremy builds real apps for real customers. That’s why I can heartily recommend this book. Go out and write some great apps … and keep this book handy.” – from the forward by Jeff Prosise. When my wife stuck her head in the office and said, “Honey, there’s a UPS truck in front of the…
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wintellect-blogs|May 29, 2012

Metro XAML Nugget: App Bar AutoMagic

You may have noticed that in many places of the Windows 8 Metro UI, as well as many Metro applications where list content can be selected, that making a selection automatically/magically (“automagically”) brings up one or more app bars.  This is consistent with the “Guidelines and checklist for app bars” published in the Metro Style…
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xaml|Dec 9, 2010

Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 1: Dynamic XAML

Recently I undertook the effort to rewrite my personal web page for a few reasons. I always like side projects for learning so I wanted to explore some “fun” ideas such as three dimensional objects and plasma (I blogged about those here) but also some more practical ideas like dynamic content and custom list boxes.…
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Blogs|Aug 5, 2010

Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight

In an interview earlier this year with MSDN geekSpeak, I discussed unit testing for Silverlight and some of the frameworks that are available. One audience member raised a very important question: “How do we test the XAML?” Specifically, what happens when we hand off XAML to a designer or another developer, and they accidently remove…
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Blogs|Dec 2, 2009

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

I’ve been enjoying learning more about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and exploring various ways to integrate it with applications. After toying with MEF on Silverlight for awhile, I began to wonder about using it to export/import UI pieces or even define data elements in XAML. After a tweet to @gblock confirmed there was not…
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Blogs|Dec 15, 2008

Setting the Record Straight on XamlReader.Load

Many Silverlight developers (myself included) have found out the hard way that applications that use XamlReader.Load often don’t work on PCs in Europe and other parts of the world. I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago but had some erroneous information in my blog entry. I have since conducted more rigorous testing and…
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Blogs|Apr 8, 2008

Reading XAML from a Silverlight Application Assembly

I was having dinner with Walt Ritscher tonight when he posed an interesting question: how can a Silverlight app load its own XAML from an application assembly? I thought I knew the answer, because I had just finished doing a lot of research into the various ways to package code and resources in Silverlight 2.0. And…
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