Entries tagged with mvvm - Channel 9

Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design

Mike Ormond — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.

dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their front-end web interface is currently built using HTML and AJAX. They were keen to explore opportunities to build an enhanced experience for their users.

In this video I chat to some of the people involved in the project to get their perspective on the project and the results.

geekSpeak Recording - MVVM Patterns with Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg

Brian Johnson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:20:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore UI architectural patterns, such as the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, with two Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg. Christopher and Rob share their experiences developing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight applications. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and Brian Johnson.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Presenters: Christopher Bennage, President, Blue Spire Consulting, Inc. and Rob Eisenberg, Partner, Blue Spire Consulting Inc.

Christopher Bennage is the president and cofounder of Blue Spire Consulting, Inc., a Florida-based software consulting firm specializing in Microsoft .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Christopher began programming on his Texas Instrument computer in elementary school, but fell in love with computers with the advent of the Commodore Amiga. His career has brought him through a number of various technologies before eventually landing him in the marvelous world of C# and the .NET Framework. His early interest in Flash, rich user experiences, and usability led him to be an early adopter of both Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight.

More recently, he coauthored Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams, 2008) with Rob Eisenberg. Christopher embraces the values of the Agile Software Manifesto and has been significantly influenced by Extreme Programming, Domain Driven Design, and other related practices. In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. His interests include liberal education, science, truth, beauty, video game development, and a number of deceased British authors. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Sandra and their three children.

Rob Eisenberg is a Microsoft .NET architect and developer working out of Tallahassee, Florida. He is a partner with Christopher Bennage at Blue Spire Consulting, a software development firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Rob got his start with computer programming at the age of nine, when he thoroughly fell in love with his family's new Commodore 64. His fascination with programming started with the Commodore Basic language, then moved to Q and QuickBasic, quickly continued on to C, C++, and is presently C# and the .NET Framework. Rob publishes technical articles regularly at devlicio.us and has spoken at regional events and to companies concerning .NET technologies and Agile software practices. He is coauthor of Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams, 2008) and is the architect and lead developer of the Caliburn Application Framework for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight. Rob is happily married to his wife Anna, and he enjoys swing dancing, making artisan cheese, playing on his drum set, and teaching drums.

Nikhil shows MVVM and MVC working together in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:37:00 GMT

Nikhil Kothari has posted a a sample application that demonstrates a ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight. As an added bonus the sample uses the New York Times Newswire API, and is running on teh Silverlight.FX framework.

The first version of the WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit is available

Adam Kinney — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:35:00 GMT

Ivo Manolov announces that the WPF team has shipped a toolkit for building a MVVM based application. The toolkit is available for download on the “WPF Futures” codeplex site.

Silverlight och Model-View-ViewModel-mönstret

Swedish MSDN Team — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:38:00 GMT

Model-View-ViewModel-mönstret ger en renare separation av applikationens gränssnitt och den bakomliggande logiken, förenklar databindning och gör att klientapplikationer blir enklare att testa.

I den här screencasten visar Chris Klug (http://chris.59north.com) hur du kan implementera Model-View-ViewModel-mönstret i Silverlight 2.

Creating a modular application using Prism V2 - Screencast 3/4 : Implementing views and services

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:12:00 GMT

In this 4 part series, Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk from patterns and practices shows you how to build a modular application using the recently released Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 (also known as Prism V2).

Part 3. Implementing views and services:

This webcast demonstrates how to create a view using the Model – View – ViewModel pattern, and how to create and inject Services into your classes by using the Unity Dependency Injection Container.

For Part 4 of 4: Decoupled Communication

Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk are both Software Development Engineers at Microsoft patterns & practices and have both worked on the Prism V2 project.

TCSWeekly 004 - amazing visuals and one monster MVVM article

Adam Kinney — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:18:00 GMT

This episode includes amazing visuals in both blu and Descry, one beefy MVVM article and the announcement that there will be no more Betas for Windows 7, next stop Release Candidate!

Stories covered in this episode include:


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MVVM, a WPF UI Design Pattern

Adam Kinney — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:01:00 GMT

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 independence between design and code files, a sample application based on MVVM and more.

If you'd like to hear Karl go into more depth on MVVM, check out his upcoming training schedule. Events possibly coming to an area near you. If not, maybe we can convince him to take me along to film a training day. :)

XAML Guidelines, Part 1

Adam Kinney — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:19:00 GMT

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 structure your application?" "How do you work across disciplines?" and more.

In this episode, Jaime interviews the trifecta from Identity Mine - Jonathan Russ (developer), Nathan Dunlap (integrator) and Jared Potter (designer).

This video is longer than normal episodes so I thought I'd break the video into time codes:
1:45 – How do you structure your projects?

3:36 - Where do you place images and resources?

5:14 – How do you partition Resource Dictionaries?

7:06 – How do you keep generic.xaml organized?

8:00 – Do you start with Simple Styles or Blend?

8:43 – Static Resources or Dynamic Resources?

11:12 – What are your naming conventions?

15:36 - Does the x:Name attribute have to be first?

16:49 – Do you have a special way you format your XAML?

19:38 – Do you add Attributes to your controls?

24:52 – Who creates the control templates?

26:58 – Anything else?