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Method ~ of ~ failed, March 4, 2010
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Quick, whats the most popular thing in XAML development? Yeah, thought soMVVM or Model-View-ViewModel. Its one of the most popular subjects I hear about when people talk about developing applications...
Nikhil Kotharis Weblog, March 1, 2010
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One of the comments I got on my last post on view/view model hookup options was the following:
I've been a mvvm fan but actually when I see all the hoops to jump through I wonder at times how effectiv...
Nikhil Kotharis Weblog, February 26, 2010
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Some time back, I blogged about different options to hook up a view to its view model when following the ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern. There are multiple approaches in use out there. I raised the poss...
Chad Myers Blog, February 13, 2010
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One score (minus five) years ago, in the age of yore and of our programming forefathers, there was written a little book. A seminal book. A book that would change things. That book was called Design P...
K. Scott Allen, February 2, 2010
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I stumbled across A vent abount MVVM Development thanks to a tweet from @peterbromberg. Excerpt: What really irritates me is that I am forced to waste so much time on how to try and figure out how...
Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, January 29, 2010
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Okay, first, understand that Im in the position of running through the streets yelling at folks cmere! ya gotta see this! and what Im pointing to is the i...
Jeffrey Palermo, January 19, 2010
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Im interested in structure. We hear lots of talk about convention over configuration. Im all for structure over convention (over configuration). This post is about laying out some co...
BizTalk Server 2004, January 18, 2010
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This is the first of a three-part series, as follows:
Part 1:Situating the Business Rules Engine
Part 2:Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern
Part 3:Backward Chaining: the Bound ...
BizTalk Server 2004, January 18, 2010
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This is the second of a three-part series, as follows:
Part 1:Situating the Business Rules Engine
Part 2:Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern
Part 3:Backward Chaining: the Bound ...
BizTalk Server 2004, January 18, 2010
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This is the third and final part of a three-part series, as follows:
Part 1:Situating the Business Rules Engine
Part 2:Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern
Part 3:Backward Chaining: the Bou...
ISerializable, January 6, 2010
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Today in class I got to understand, for the first time, what I define as the simplest thing that could possibly work when doing TDD. Many people struggle with the idea of simplicity. the idea of doing...
Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, December 1, 2009
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Eric Brechner wrote an interesting post titled "Don't panic", about how to deal with requests. I sometimes agree and sometimes disagree with what Eric writes, but it's usually a pretty good read.
In...
The Code Project Latest Articles, November 21, 2009
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I will show you some realistic unit and integration test examples in a N-tier web application, which should help you write tests that gives you confidence and helps you gradually move towards TDD...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 20, 2009
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Part 1 of this series, Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository- Part 1- Model and POCO Classes, covered the classes, the model and the context.
Now we will look at the repository. Since the model & co...
JohnPapa.net, November 20, 2009
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Earlier today I blogged about my session yesterday on Advanced Large Scale Applications with Silverlight at PDC 09. I had a great time at PDC but now that I am home and have a faster and more stable i...
JohnPapa.net, November 16, 2009
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If you are at PDC this week, please stop by my session. I will be presenting Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight at PDC 09 this Wednesday at 4:30 pm. ...
Fabrice's weblog, November 11, 2009
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The MVVM pattern (Model-View-ViewModel, also known as M-V-VM, the PresentationModel pattern, or the ViewModel pattern) appeared a long time ago now, but it took some time before it became more documen...
Patrik Löwendahls shout, November 9, 2009
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The decorator pattern is a pretty straightforward pattern that utilizes wrapping to extend existing classes with new functionality. Its commonly used to apply cross-cutting concerns on top of business...
ComponentArt WebLogs, November 6, 2009
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Web.UI 2009.2 saw the addition of the Scheduler for ASP.NET AJAX control, which handled one-time Appointment objects. With 2009.3 we have implemented RecurringAppointment obje...
The Code Project Latest Articles, October 20, 2009
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Discusses use of interfaces to recover encapsulation where the internal keyword is used....
Steven Smith, October 11, 2009
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(this is a submission I made to the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book) Of all the principles of programming, Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) is perhaps one of the most fundamental. The...
Jeffrey Palermo, October 7, 2009
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Udi Dahan is delivering his Advanced Distributed Systems Design (SOA & DDD) course in Austin for the second time. Headspring is hosting the training and is happy to offer this course for tho...
Cirrus Minor, September 30, 2009
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I begun writing SOA patterns a long time
ago. I was making nice progress when suddenly xsights happened
and my free time evaporated. Now, 2 years or so later, were finally in production....
Brad Abrams, September 29, 2009
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I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the t...
Nikhil Kotharis Weblog, September 11, 2009
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The ViewModel/MVVM pattern continues to gain popularity, with a blog post showing up every so often, and with tweets and retweets popping up even more often :-). At the same time, there are some inter...
Jeffrey Palermo, September 11, 2009
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Go here to sign up: (see Erics blog post here) Headspring has partnered with Microsoft to provide monthly workshops to the local developer community for free. Usually on the 2nd or 3rd Tuesda...
Cirrus Minor, September 10, 2009
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I noticed that the images and code samples are a little off on the blog (I have to
admit I just pasted it from word, and we all know the great HTML that produces).
To help remedy this I ...
the telerik blogs, September 10, 2009
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For those of you following this series, I'm going to take a slight detour to explain one of the little bits of magic that we have been using to make loading and saving appointments very easy: Recurren...
Cirrus Minor, September 8, 2009
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1.1 Reservation
When you use transactions in traditional n-tier systems life is relatively simple.
For instance, when you run a transaction and an error or ...
Cirrus Minor, September 3, 2009
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Youve probably noticed this blog has gone a little quiet lately It is mainly due
to the fact that we (xsights) are making the
final steps to move to production. Indeed today we are fina...
the telerik blogs, September 3, 2009
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After reading the first part of this series, you should now have a project that is ready to wire up with events. In summary, last time we: Created a new project with RIA services enabled Created a da...
Steven Smith, August 29, 2009
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The Game of Life was invented in 1970 by John Conway, a British mathematician. The rules of the game are simple, but the resulting behavior of the system that results is often surprising and in ...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., August 26, 2009
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Tomorrow (Thursday Aug 27th at 1pm EST) I will be presenting a one hour webcast on Entity Framework Tips and Tricks.
If you are curious what to expect, here’s the rundown.
It’s a Tips &...
ISerializable, August 19, 2009
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another one from the big uncle overseas
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youve been HAACKED, August 19, 2009
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The .NET Framework provides support for managing transactions from code via the System.Transactions infrastructure. Performing database operations in a transaction is as easy as writing a using block ...
ISerializable, August 18, 2009
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Heres one by Jeremy Miller
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Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., August 10, 2009
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If you are working with the Beta 1 of VS2010 in an Entity Data Model, you might notice some new properties in the Properties Window for an entity’s scalar property.
Are they new properties? Act...
Nikhil Kotharis Weblog, August 4, 2009
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This is a quick blog post to share slides and demos from my presentations at TechEd in South Africa. Feel free to post questions here...
From the talk on ViewModel and Application Patterns for Silverl...
Karl Seguin [MVP], August 2, 2009
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I've updated the Foundations of Programming license to a Share-Alike (as opposed to a no derivatives) license.
As always, you can download it from:
http://codebetter.com/media/p/179694.aspx
OR
ht...
Brad Abrams, July 24, 2009
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I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as well. Some readers have asked me if RIA Services is required for the client validation goodn...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., July 23, 2009
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I finally read the abstract for Matthew Weier OPhinneys PHP U.G. talk, Play-Doh: Modeling Your Domain Objects, tonight and realized he is focusing on the MVC design pattern and ORMs. Im looking at my...
Misfit Geek, July 21, 2009
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The patterns & practices team plans to create some new Web guidance and we need your help prioritizing the requirements through a survey that just went live. They have split the effort into 2 pr...
MSDN: ASP.NET, July 14, 2009
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How does Visual WebGui solve the complexity of utilizing the model view controller pattern (MVC) pattern in Web development in a light, simple, and productive way? Watch this webcast to find out....
Chad Myers Blog, July 14, 2009
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Alternate Title: An IoC Container is a Rich Mans Factory Pattern Implementation I ruffled some feathers with my last post on Poor Mans Dependency Injection (PDMI), so please allow me to clarify furth...
Misfit Geek, July 10, 2009
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Telerik is giving away a free pass to the 2009 PNP Summit ($1900 value) along with a Telerik Premium Collection license TODAY. To be in the drawing for the big prize, you need to attend the la...
The Code Project Latest Articles, July 6, 2009
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codeproject Introduction When we want to make a only one instance of a class and also making sure that there is a global access point to that object then the design pattern we user is called ...
The Code Project Latest Articles, July 2, 2009
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codeproject What is Adapter Pattern? The Adapter pattern is a structural design pattern which enables a system to use classes whose interfaces dont quite match its requirements or in oth...
Misfit Geek, July 1, 2009
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Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Te...
Atlas notes, June 28, 2009
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With the Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0, youll be able to use a container of your choice to configure the various blocks. This interesting post discusses the architectural changes that made possib...
DevX: .NET Feed, June 18, 2009
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Discover how to use F#'s active patterns to build prototype parsers that you can test interactively....