Automated Silverlight Unit Testing Using StatLight
One concern with the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework is that it runs on a UI thread and requires a browser to function. This makes it difficult to integrate into automated […]
Silverlight Unit Testing Framework: Asynchronous Testing of Behaviors
Last month, I bogged about Unit Testing ViewModels AND Views using the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework. I wanted to take that post a step further and talk about some more […]
PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 3 of 3: Dynamic MEF Modules in PRISM
Series recap: PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 1 of 3: Unity Glue PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF Friendly PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 3 […]
PRISM, MEF, and MVVM Part 2 of 3: Making PRISM MEF Friendly
In the first part of this series, we explored using the Unity container to bind the view model to the view. The next logical step is to explore how to […]
Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur
While creating the 3rd Edition of my CLR via C# book (http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-C-Third-Pro-Developer/dp/0735627045/ref=dp_ob_title_bk), I came up with a cool little class that will raise an event after a collection of Generation […]
PRISM, MEF and MVVM Part 1 of 3: Unity Glue
PRISM, also known as Composite WPF, has established itself as a very popular framework for building modular, scalable Silverlight applications. A newer contender, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), has also […]
Silverlight’s Big Image Problem (and What You Can Do About It)
Quick: Can you spot the problem with these three lines of code? BitmapImage bi = new BitmapImage(); bi.SetSource(stream); TheImage.Source = bi; These statements create an image from a stream of […]
Dispatching in Silverlight
Anyone who has been building Silverlight and/or WPF applications for some time understands that there is a single UI thread that has special access requirements if you are going to […]
Silverlight 4’s New COM Automation Support
One of Silverlight 4’s most compelling new features is support for out-of-browser applications with elevated permissions. An app running with elevated permissions can perform actions that a normal sandboxed application […]