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Code Once Use Twice….or More

Posted on July 5, 2011

If you have programed against any of Microsoft’s Xaml based user interface frameworks then you might have heard about the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern.  One of the benefits of this pattern is the separation of the view  from the view model.  … Continue reading →

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Greetings From New England givecamp!

Posted on May 1, 2011

What can you do with 48 hour and over 120 volunteers.  I will tell you what we did.  We helped out over 25 charity with variety technical projects.  Projects that would normally not get done because of lack of budget … Continue reading →

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Controlling Silverlight Child Windows Using MVVM

Posted on April 22, 2011

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 … Continue reading →

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Isolating OData Calls in Silverlight.

Posted on April 18, 2011

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, MVVM, OData, Software Architecture | 3 Comments

Getting a User’s Windows Identity in WCF

Posted on April 11, 2011

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.  … Continue reading →

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“Update on the 5’s”

Posted on April 5, 2011

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 … Continue reading →

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Why Repositories Matter!

Posted on March 21, 2011

I recently read a blog titled “Architecting in the pit of doom: The evils of the repository abstraction layer”. In it Ayende makes some pretty compelling points as to why you should not use repositories.  In his example he is … Continue reading →

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Implement an Entity Framework Trace Listener For Logging Application Block

Posted on February 10, 2011

I am working on a project that wants to implement a logging utilizing the Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0.  The project has a need to create different types of logs (Auditing, Exception, …). This log information is going to be stored … Continue reading →

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Some Silverlight Resources to Help Get Started

Posted on December 22, 2010

I seem to get this question a lot “I want to get started in Silverlight…Where do I begin?”  A while back I put together an email to a friend with some resources that I have found helpful.  The last couple … Continue reading →

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The Dawn of Interconnectivity!

Posted on December 7, 2010

I was cleaning out my RSS reader and came across an interesting post from KELLABYTE. She wants a seamlessly integrated world. I have seen commercials for Verizon FIOS that may be deliver that. The challenge comes in delivering that across … Continue reading →

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