This is the first video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. This video covers how to setup a multi-platform Prism application that targets WPF and Silverlight. I show you how to setup your directory structure, as well as the solution/project structure inside Visual Studio. [...]
Often when learning a technology you start by searching the web. You look for videos, blogs, articles, samples, and examples. What you start to realize is that everything you find is very simple “demo” code. That’s code that shows how to implement a simple feature in a non-realistic demo. Then you start looking for “production” [...]
Don’t want to read the article? Watch the video tutorial on Xaml TV. Prism provides 4 region adapters out of the box for you: ContentControlRegionAdapter SelectorRegionAdaptor ItemsControlRegionAdapter TabControlRegionAdapter (Silverlight only) Well, what happens when you want to use a different control as a region host? Simple. You need to write a custom region adapter for [...]
I was monitoring my Twitter feed, like I always do, and saw a tweet come through asking about how to validate an object’s property against it’s parent ObservableCollection in the Infragistics XamDataGrid. What this person was trying to accomplish was to validate a duplicate item in his data source. They have a POCO object the [...]
It was Sunday night. Victor and I were having a video call on Skype finalizing our plans to host his 70+ Silverlight video tutorials on Xaml TV. He was late to our meeting because he said he didn’t feel well. He said that he was recovering from a week long illness, but he quickly assured [...]
Today I received an email informing me that I have been awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award. This is the second time I have been awarded this particular award and it feels just as good this time as it did last time. I’m not sure how you go about getting nominated for this award, but [...]
Mar 272012
I would like announce the creation of a new developer webcast that focuses on Xaml application development called Xaml TV. The purpose of Xaml TV is to provide quality Xaml content through interviews with individuals, community leaders, and technology experts in the fields of WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and WinRT/Metro. If it is Xaml we [...]
Mar 242012
What an awesome day at Boise Code Camp. We had 400 attendees, 60 sessions, and tons of giveaways. The top prizes were an Xbox 360 with a game, an iPad2 with accessories, and a Lenovo K1 Tablet with accessories. Infragistics gave every attendee a license for our NetAdvantage for Windows Phone product, and I gave [...]
If you have done any WPF application development I am sure you have used and fallen in love with the Static markup extension. If you’re are not familiar with it, the Static markup extension allows you to reference static fields and properties in your XAML markup. For example; let’s assume we have a class with [...]
Obviously I am extremely late posing this, but being a PM is rather time consuming. First off, I would like to thank everyone who attended my sessions. A lucky few of you even won an awesome subscription to Infragistics NetAdvantage Ultimate toolset. I hope you will show me the great applications you will be building [...]
