WPF

MVVM. MVVM. MVVM.  I bet you’ve seen that acronym more than three times before? Ever wonder what it means?  I’ll tell you: “Model View-View Model” Ever wonder what THAT means?! MVVM is a popular design pattern for coding the presentation layer in both Silverlight & Windows…

This week, on Bytes by MSDN, meet the Vice-President of Technology for IdeaBlade Inc., Ward Bell. Ward introduces IdeaBlade’s main product, DevForce, which allows you to reach any user, anywhere, with their tools and infrastructure for building desktop, Silverlight, and Web applications for…

Have you ever needed to memorize a number of objects’ names, such as word definitions in a new language, animals' names, people’s names, or tree leaf shape nomenclature? If you did, you might have employed a useful tool, known as the flashcard. By creating cards with questions, pictures, or terms…

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a…

Using a Messag Bus to communicate between ViewModels is a very common activity when building an application based on MVVM.  In this video, I show how you can build a Message Bus that can be created on a per-page basis and easily connected to the ViewModels on a page using XAML. For a…

We've all cringed as a hopelessly out of tune contestant appears on the latest episode of “American Idol.” Occasionally, there's a contestant who manages to be pitch perfect all the way through—right until they flub the final note. And in the cutthroat world of televised auditions, sing one…

Immersion Digital is a BizSpark company based in Orlando, Florida that's bringing the Bible to life through WPF in their Glo Bible software. In this interview, I talked to Nelson Saba, CEO and Founder of Immersion Digital, about Glo and how they came to choose WPF to build the product.  Links:…

In September, I met up on campus with Joel Barsotti. Joel, and the company SpectraCal, have created an awesome WPF application used for analyzing and calibrating various types of displays (computer screens, LCDs in stores etc.) When Joel first told me about the application, I was really excited…

Users of Brian Peek’s TweeVo application have obviously noticed that the application hasn’t been working since early September.  Twitter forced all applications to use the OAuth authentication scheme, and now TweeVo has been updated to work with this new requirement.  You can download…

Lots of developers are building XAML-based applications today.  Be it WPF, Silverlight or Windows Phone 7, I have seen a lot of people struggle with certain tasks in Visual Studio that would be much easier if undertaken in Expression Blend.  Blend seems to be somewhat intimidating to…