18 Articles match "2011","Silverlight"

39 Articles match "2011","Silverlight"

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• Easier Async for Silverlight Apps using MVVM
  
  WPF and Silverlight have Dispatcher.CheckAccess / Dispatcher.BeginInvoke. Technical MVVM SilverlightIt makes sense to execute long-running tasks on a background thread, in order to keep the UI responsive by not tying up the main thread. However, as is the case with other UI frameworks such as Windows Forms or WPF, you should not touch UI elements from worker threads. This has to do with how Windows apps process messages, which are always handled on the thread that created the visual element. Windows Forms has the Control.InvokeRequired / Control.BeginInvoke API.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Saturday, January 29, 2011
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• Commands versus Event Triggers in MVVM
  
  For several reasons I tend to favor event triggers over commands in most scenarios, especially for Silverlight applications. Unfortunately Silverlight requires you to fire the CanExecuteChanged event manually, which is why implementations of ICommand (such as the DelegateCommand in Simple MVVM Toolkit) also expose a public RaiseCanExecute method. Technical MVVM SilverlightRecently I’ve received some questions from the Simple MVVM Toolkit’s discussion forum on when to use commands versus Blend-style event triggers. For example, I could have a method called ShowCustomer.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Friday, July 22, 2011
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• Madam Silverlight
  
  Just wanted to call out attention to a new Silverlight site created by Maine’s own Carolyn Smith: www.silverlightmadam.com. Silverlight Madam is the creation of Carolyn Smith. Then she discovered computer graphics and now she specializes in creating art in Silverlight.”. SilverlightFor many years Carolyn's preferred medium was watercolors. Note: Carolyn also runs the site www.pixycolors.com.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Thursday, June 9, 2011
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• Keep Dependency Injection Simple with MEF
  
  and Silverlight right out of the box and is focused on the simple task of providing instances based on an agreed-upon contract. For that we’ll leverage the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework , which ships with the Silverlight Toolkit. We add a new project to the solution by selecting the Silverlight Unit Test Application project template. Technical MEF MVVM SilverlightOne of the main benefits of using the MVVM (Model, View, ViewModel) design pattern is to support better testability. The unit testing framework is simple another consumer of the View-Model.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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• Tackling the Problem of Modal Dialogs in MVVM
  
  This plays nice with the asynchronous nature of dialogs in Silverlight, which are not truly model as they are in WPF or Windows Forms (this is because you can’t rely on the Windows message pump in a cross-platform framework such as Silverlight). Technical MVVM SilverlightOne of the first issues you’ll run into when wading into the waters of MVVM is how to display model dialogs to the user while executing code in the view-model. One of the main benefits of MVVM is better application maintainability. Another benefit is testability. This is typical of interfaces in general.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Friday, January 28, 2011
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• Access Control Service: Walkthrough Videos of Web Application, SOAP, REST and Silverlight Integration
  
  Part 4 – Silverlight and Web Identity Integration. The Silverlight Client shows ho to sign in to the application using a registered identity provider (including web identities) and using the resulting SWT token to call our REST service. Over the weekend I worked a little more on my ACS2 sample. Instead of writing it all down, I decided to quickly record four short videos that cover the relevant features and code. Have fun ;). Part 1 – Overview. This video does a quick walkthrough of the solution and shows the web application part. watch. Part 2 – SOAP Service and Client. watch.
  www.leastprivilege.com - Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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• Type-Safe Two-Way Data Binding with INotifyPropertyChanged
  
  Anyone who’s developed a UI application using Windows Forms, WPF or Silverlight is probably aware that you have to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface to get two-way data binding between UI elements and an underlying data source. Technical MVVM SilverlightThe problem is that you have to pass the name of the property as a string when you fire the event from each property setter. In this post I will show you a better way, namely, how you can use lambda expressions instead of strings to pass the property name. You can download the code for this blog post here. null ).
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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