Data binding images with MVVM
The title for this post make it sound like the world’s simplest thing. And to be honest, it sort of is. It is not hard to get images from the ViewModels into the view, but there are several ways of...
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A Windows Phone 7 ComboBox
I am currently finishing off a tiny little WP7 application for a client here in New Zealand, which as such is not that very impressive. It seems like there is a LOT of apps on the way for the phone. I...
View ArticleSharing resources and styles between projects in Silverlight
I have lately been working on a somewhat larger Silverlight application for a client here in New Zealand. The application is being built using PRISM, which means that it is loaded in a composite/...
View ArticleUsing querystring parameters with the WebBrowserTask on WP7
I have just built a Windows Phone 7 app that is hopefully about to pop up on the marketplace within a couple of days. It is a fairly simple app, with very few impressive features. The most complicated...
View ArticleReferencing class library projects with references from Silverlight...
One “feature” in VS2010 (and 2008 I assume) that bugs the hell out of me, is the way that referenced assemblies are packaged in Silverlight projects… And please let me know if you know of any fix for...
View ArticleMVVM and animation, revisited
A while back, quite a while back to be honest, I wrote a blog post about using animations in the MVVM pattern. And even if the way of doing it mentioned in the post still works, I would not recommend...
View ArticleSessions for MIX11
Earlier today I got word that some of my sessions, that I had sent in as a part of the Open Call for MIX11, had gone past the initial round and are on the MIX11 website for voting. And the sessions...
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Removing Design Time references at compile time
As you might have noticed on my blog, I like working with Silverlight, and I like using the MVVM pattern when I do so. As a part of this, I generally create design time ViewModels to get the best help...
View ArticleMultithreading my way
Ok, so Silverlight is a very cool technology, and Microsoft has done a whole lot of things to make sure that it performs the way it should. They have done things like forcing you to run long running...
View ArticleIntroduction to setting up automated unit testing in Silverlight with NUnit
Ok, so MVVM is obviously about Unit testing right? Well, I don’t really agree, but it is definitely a part of why you chose MVVM, even if it is only a small part of the reason for me. I have been using...
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