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UK Silverlight Apps: Codify Ltd

Mike Taulty — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:38:00 GMT

Codify are based in Aberdeen, Scotland and build bespoke applications for the oil and gas industry. They've been on .NET since version 1 and have largely built desktop applications and deployed them in web-like manner via ClickOnce.

Silverlight was then a natural fit for their recent applications and here we get some insight from their MD, Ops Director and one of their Senior Developers around the sort of applications that they've put together, what's driven them to use Silverlight, their experience with it and some more detail about the patterns (MVVM) that they're using to build their apps.

Prism & Silverlight: Part 10 - A Larger Example - "Email Client"

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:31:00 GMT

This is part 10 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

and then finally we try and bring some of these concepts together in a longer, more realistic example of a simple Email application built using the Prism framework - warning, this is a much longer session but I wanted something that draws things together;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

The recommendation would be that you watch the 10 screencasts in order but if that feels like too long a process or if you're already very familiar with concepts like dependency injection and containers like Unity then perhaps watch the last screencast first and then refer back to the previous screencasts if certain areas need more illumination.

I put the source code for Video 10 here for download as it's a bigger set of source and something you might want to explore after the video - this does not necessarily represent "best practise" but is, instead, just meant to illustrate some of the Prism ideas.

Prism & Silverlight: Part 8 - Loosely Coupled Events

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 8 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 7 - Commands

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 7 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 6 - Shells, Regions, Views

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 6 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 4 - The Unity Bootstrapper

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 4 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 3 - Modularity with Prism

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 3 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 9 - Sharing Data with Region Contexts

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 9 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 5 - Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 5 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 2 - Dependency Injection with Unity

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:00 GMT

This is part 2 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 1 - Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:00 GMT

This is part 1 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

UK Silverlight Apps: Trader Media Group & Autotrader

Mike Taulty — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Autotrader is one of the UK's biggest websites offering the public and the car trade a web-based mechanism for buying and selling of vehicles.

The website is owned by Trader Media Group (TMG) and in this video we talk to Pete Hanlon and Chris Kelly of TMG around the work that they're doing with Silverlight on applications that they offer to the car-trade and around possible future uses of Silverlight at TMG.

Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Chat with Ian Ellison-Taylor

Mike Taulty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:26:00 GMT

At the recent UK launch of Silverlight 3 in the UK I managed to catch up with Ian Ellison-Taylor.

Ian is the general manager of the Presentation Platform and Tools which means that he's general manager for things like WPF, Silverlight, the toolkits associated with them and the tooling that goes with them - generally, this makes him a very interesting chap to chat to :-) and in this video we cover lots of semi-random ground that you'll hopefully find interesting!

Find the recordings from the day here on the MSDN UK site.

Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Interview with MoneyDashboard

Mike Taulty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:24:00 GMT

At the recent UK launch of Silverlight 3 in the UK we managed to catch up with George Hall of the personal finance software company MoneyDashboard to chat around their experiences with Silverlight and Expression.

Find the recordings from the day here on the MSDN UK site.

Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Interview with I2Q

Mike Taulty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:21:00 GMT

At the recent UK launch of Silverlight 3 in the UK we managed to catch up with Jason Rousell and Nick Harewood of the technology solutions provider I2Q to chat around their experiences with Silverlight and Expression.

Find the recordings from the day here on the MSDN UK site.

Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Interview with Matt Davey of Lab49

Mike Taulty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:18:00 GMT

At the recent UK launch of Silverlight 3 in the UK we managed to catch up with Matt Davey of the consultancy Lab49 to chat around their experiences with Silverlight and Expression.

Find the recordings from the day here on the MSDN UK site.

Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Interview with Andrew Martin of Metia

Mike Taulty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:13:00 GMT

At the recent UK launch of Silverlight 3 in the UK we managed to catch up with Andrew Martin of the agency Metia to chat around their experiences with Silverlight and Expression.

Find the recordings from the day here on the MSDN UK site.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Extensible Application Services

Mike Taulty — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT

The Application class in Silverlight 3 has a new trick for providing a central repository of services that are driven through a consistent life-cycle and can be easily obtained from anywhere else in your application. Here, we take a quick look.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Network Status Detection

Mike Taulty — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT

In this screencast we take a look at how we can build a simple control that automatically displays UI for when the network is online versus when it is offline using new features in Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Validation

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:02:00 GMT

In this screencast we take a look at how we can handle exceptions from property setters that are used in Silverlight data binding and automatically or manually display error UI for those exceptions.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Cached Platform Extensions

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

In this screencast we take a look at how we can reduce the size of a Silverlight XAP by downloading Microsoft assemblies from Microsoft.com rather than packaging them into the XAP.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Silverlight 3 Beta - Writeable Bitmaps

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

In this screencast we take a look at how we can create bitmaps in Silverlight 3 in order to display on the screen and discuss other possibilities for those bitmaps that might show up in the RTM version of Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Silverlight 3 Beta - GPU Acceleration

Mike Taulty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT

In this screencast we take a look at how we can make use of GPU acceleration for video and bitmap scaling in Silverlight 3.

View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at Silverlight.net in order to get more comprehensive coverage.

Interview - Andrew Fryer with Mike Taulty on LINQ and DBAs

Mike Taulty — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Andrew Fryer of Microsoft UK talking to Mike Taulty at the UK SQL Bits conference around LINQ and the confusion that LINQ can cause amongst DBAs given that the term LINQ appears in conjunction with many things including quite a few that have nothing to do with databases :-)

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:12:00 GMT

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about what he's currently playing with in his spare time - the WCF REST Starter Kit.