MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective
After having worked on several major projects that integrated the Managed Extensibility Framework, I thought it might be beneficial to share a retrospective on how it was used what value […]
Intro to MVVM: Slides and Sample Code
Thanks to everyone who joined me last night for my presentation about Model-View-ViewModel for the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup group. I enjoyed it and appreciate you sticking through the heat (pardon […]
Integrating your Application’s Threading Model with the Asynchronous Programming Model
In version 2.0 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft introduced the System.Threading. SynchronizationContext class. Simply stated, a SynchronizationContext-derived object connects an application model to its threading model. The FCL defines several […]
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM, etc.
With all due respect to Steve Martin, “The new phone tools are here! The new phone tools are here!” Following up on my recent presentations introducing development for Windows Phone […]
Best Practices for Themes in Modular Silverlight Applications
When building large Silverlight applications, it makes sense to build sets of styles that can be shared across the application. Many examples on the web illustrate placing these in the […]
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Design-Time Friendly ViewModels with MEF
The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a very powerful tool for building modular, extensible Silverlight applications. If you’ve followed this blog, you’ll know that it is not just for applications […]
Using AppDomains to make Non-Threadsafe code Threadsafe
Recently, I was involved in a Wintellect consulting engagement where a customer had some class library code that was created years ago. The code in this class library was not […]
Zen of Paraffin
With Paraffin 3.5, I included this document, but thought it would be worth posting as well for those of you that aren’t familiar with Paraffin. You can download the lastest […]