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17 minutes, 31 secondsMVVM, a WPF UI Design PatternJan 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM| 154,350 views
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What is MVVM and why do people keep talking about it? Karl Shifflett explains why its buzz worthy and why you should consider it as a design pattern for your application development. Karl discusses improved unit testability (including UI testing), full separation and… -
5 minutes, 35 secondsWPF Effects Library DemoOct 04, 2008 at 3:36 PM| 142,718 views 8
After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and… -
6 minutes, 42 secondsOxite, an ASP.NET MVC based blogDec 08, 2008 at 9:06 AM| 112,602 views 17
When ASP.NET MVC hit like Preview 3 or 4, quite a few of us were saying "We should get together and build new blog software based on MVC, it would be so fun!". Well as good ideas go sometimes this one passed by the wayside due to lack of time available. Fortunately this is… -
27 minutes, 50 secondsXAML Guidelines, Part 1Dec 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM| 103,650 views 11
Ever wonder how the experts organize their XAML-based projects? With the help of Jaime Rodriguez, the WPF guy on my team, we've put together a 3 part video series on XAML Guidelines. The videos along with a whitepaper available at the end of this week answer questions like "How do you… -
3 minutes, 0 secondsQuakeLight PreviewOct 22, 2008 at 7:07 PM| 100,247 views 24
In this video, I'm running a preview version of QuakeLight a Silverlight-based port of Quake. Its very impressive to see an old-school classic game come to life in Silverlight 2. Stunned, along with others, I interviewed Julien Frelat about the story behind QuakeLight,… -
8 minutes, 22 secondsPrism v2 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SilverlightFeb 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM| 97,934 views 14
Composite Application Guidance, affectionately known as Prism, version 2 has been released. Prism provides guidance and code that can help you build modular applications that can adapt to constant changing requirements. In this video, Blaine Wastell provides a quick overview and… -
28 minutes, 10 secondsXAML Power Toys - Instant Form GenerationNov 21, 2008 at 11:25 AM| 97,442 views 15
Karl Shifflett brought one of his favorite Hawaiian shirts and his XAML Power Toys in to the studio and it was time to play. Karl demonstrates how to use his Visual Studio Add-In to instantly generate forms for Line of Business applications. Since the filming of this video Karl has… -
9 minutes, 8 secondsLawson Smart Office brings WPF goodness to the enterpriseAug 27, 2008 at 4:52 PM| 93,305 views 12
Originally noticed as "a beautiful user experience in an enterprise application", Lawson Smart Office provides a distinctive personalized experience for someone managing their "information workplace". Matthew Allbee provides a walkthrough of Lawson's first… -
3 minutes, 55 secondsUT3 Bots for .NETNov 05, 2008 at 11:17 AM| 91,106 views 1
You may not be able to write Quake in .NET, but with the UT3 Bots Starter Kit you could write your Bot in .NET for Unreal Tournament 3. James Lissiak demonstrates how to write a simple Bot and the Silverlight-based visualization for real-time game information. -
35 minutes, 3 secondsXAML Guidelines, Part 2Dec 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM| 84,528 views 3
As a follow-up to part 1, Jaime Rodriguez meets up with Unni Ravindranathan from the Expression Blend team. They open the source code project for Blend inside of Blend (endless loop? possibly, but it works). With the code open, Unni explains their project…
