A while ago I wrote a post called “Silverlight Child Window With MEF and MVVM Light” where I laid out an approach on how to implement a child window in Silverlight while following MVVM. Some of the challenges of using MVVM center around keeping UI specifics out of the view model. Keeping UI out of... Continue Reading →
As Software Engineers we strive to build elegant solutions. We tend to layer our architecture so that our code is modular so that our code is testable and maintainable. With Silverlight this poses some particular challenges specifically when dealing with external services. All external calls from with Silverlight are asynchronous in order to prevent developers... Continue Reading →
I was recently asked by a coworker, “How do I get the Windows Identity of a user calling my WCF service from Silverlight?” My answer to him was “To the Cloud!” No seriously, I put together a little demo application. I figured I would write a short blog post so that others can partake in... Continue Reading →
Microsoft’s MIX11conference is next week in Las Vegas. This is Microsoft’s conference dedicated to UX. It has been at this conference where the various versions of Silverlight have be announce/released. It was at this, last year, that they announced the Windows Phone 7 SDK. Prior to this year’s conference a message from Microsoft Developer Division... Continue Reading →
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