Category Archives: WPF

The Cost of Side-Loading on Windows 8

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

Recently, Rocky Lhotka wrote a blog post call Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device. In this post he breaks down the cost to side load a Modern UI Application (formally known as Metro) on to a Windows … Continue reading →

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To Metro and Back Again: A Developer’s Tale (Part 2)

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

In my last post, I started a journey to see if I can share data between a WPF application and a Windows 8 Metro application.  We left off with the data in the Metro application.  According to the map the … Continue reading →

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To Metro and Back Again: A Developer’s Tale (Part 1)

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Update: Part 2 Hot off the press As most of you know Microsoft is about to release a new operating system.  If you have not heard then you should crawl out from under the rock and embrace the future of … Continue reading →

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Code Once Use Twice….or More

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

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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