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Desktop to Web: Responding to Events with Angular Event Binding

April 11, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Angular, Video, WPF

One of the primary functions of an application is to respond to user interactions using events. In Angular, we use DOM events. In order to invoke code in response to the execution of an event in an Angular application, we want to use Event Binding.…

Desktop to Web: One-way Data Binding with Angular Interpolation and Property Binding

April 5, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Angular, Video, WPF

Data binding is a core concept in Angular which allows communication between a component and the DOM, making it very easy to create interactive applications without worrying about pushing and pulling data. One-way data binding in Angular can be done by using either interpolation or…

Desktop to Web: Creating your UI with Angular Components

March 15, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Angular, Video, WPF

A core responsibility for a desktop developer is to provide a user interface (UI) to end-users. In WPF this is done with Windows and UserControls, but what do we use in Angular? In this video, I will show you how to use Angular Components to…

.NET Core 3 is not working in Visual Studio 2019

March 8, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunas2 Commentsin Video, WPF

If you are having issues creating or loading .NET Core 3 apps in Visual Studio 2019, chances are you are using the latest Visual Studio 2019 (RC) which does not have .NET Core 3 enabled. In this video I explain why .NET Core 3 is…

Desktop to Web: Install Angular in 3 Simple Steps

February 27, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Angular, Infragistics, Video, WPF

In this video, I show desktop developers how to get their machine ready for Angular development. Angular development requires four pieces of software: Node JS NPM Angular CLI An IDE (Visual Studio Code) Installing Angular requires only three steps. Install Node JS and NPM. When…

Prism – ViewModelLocator Custom Registrations

January 22, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, UWP, Video, WPF, Xamarin

There may be instances where your app is following the ViewModelLocator default naming convention, but you have a number of ViewModels that do not follow the convention. Instead of trying to customize the naming convention logic to conditionally meet all your naming requirments, you can…

Prism – Changing the ViewModelLocator Naming Convention

January 17, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, UWP, Video, WPF, Xamarin

If you are using the ViewModelLocator, but want to use a different naming convention that better suites your application requires, then have no fear. Just tell Prism what your convention is, and it will use it. In this video I show you how to change…

Prism – Using the ViewModelLocator

January 16, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, UWP, Video, WPF, Xamarin

In this video, I show you how to automatically create an instance of your ViewModel and assign the DataContext of your views to that instance by using the Prism ViewModelLocator.

Prism – Using the Event Aggregator

January 11, 2019Posted by Brian Lagunasin Prism, UWP, Video, WPF, Xamarin

Do you need to communicate with different parts of your application which may, or may not, have a reference or knowledge of each other? In this video, I show you how to use Prism’s IEventAggregator to communicate between loosely couples components of your application.