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WebBrowser control Quickstart for Prism-v2

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:30:02 GMT

WPF demo application using Prism-v2 that shows both way interaction between different modules of the application and different WPF WebBrowser controls.

Cloud-Based Source Control using Live Mesh and Git

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:42:05 GMT

Describes how to set up a Git repository in Live Mesh.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

4 Grea Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

4 great tips for WPF Custom control designers

Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit today!!!!

Defining the Default Style for a Lookless Control

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:26:12 GMT

This article describes the steps necessary to define default styles for lookless controls in WPF.

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:01:19 GMT

There are a handful of essential add-ins for Expression Blend that you should be using. This article talks about how you get the add-ins working in the first place and then dives into a few of the add-ins that are available.

Microsoft Releases Free CMS-Blog System

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:46:26 GMT

Read about the new, free CMS/Blog system released by Microsoft called "Oxite". It is built using the new ASP.NET MVC framework and is highly extensible, touting such features as Microformats and source control integration.

WPF: Ribbon in Prism Applications

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:38:38 GMT

Microsoft some time ago published its Ribbon(known from Office 2007) control library for Windows Presentation Foundation. This article contains steps necessary to implement ribbon view region in Composite Application Library(aka Prism) .

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

CodeRush Xpress Tips

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:43:49 GMT

How to resolve Visual Studio and CodeRush Xpress problems under windows vista and how to access CodeRush Xpress control panel.

WPF Model - View - View-Model Screencast

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:46:09 GMT

A really helpful screencast from Jason Dolinger showing how to use the M-V-VM pattern in a simple WPF application. He starts off with the code that a Windows Forms developer might use and refactors it to M-V-VM. Also includes a demonstration of how it is nicely unit testable utilising Moq and how to use the Unity IoC container. 1 hour 30 mins long.

WPF: The best walkthrough of Model-View-ViewModel I have seen

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:27:15 GMT

Jason Dolinger a consultant for lab49 gives a great walkthrough on Model-View-ViewModel using WPF. He starts out doing things the traditional way and refactors the app to use ViewModels, Commands, and Unity.

WPF Themes Released

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:16:05 GMT

A collection of 8 free themes to be used in WPF!

7 Steps to write your own custom rule using FXCOP

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:10:14 GMT

Code review is one of the important activities in any project. Manual code reviews are definitely good and I will say better than automation. But when the project is large manual code reviews have their own limitations. FXCOP is one of the legendary tools which help us automate code reviews. This article will discuss some basics of FXCOP and then concentrate mainly on how we can add custom rules in FXCOP.

WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:31:03 GMT

The first release of the new WPF Toolkit was released today. This toolkit includes a new Ribbon control as well as the following: new WPF DataGrid, DatePicker/Calendar, and VisualStateManger. The coolest feature of this Toolkit (IMO) is the new Ribbon control. In .NET 4.0 there will be a ribbon control baked in, but thanks to the WPF Toolkit we have access to utilize the new Ribbon control today in WPF with .NET 3.5 SP1!

CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:46:03 GMT

A free subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro is now available.

Sequence diagrams with websequencediagrams.com

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:02:45 GMT

Links to a nice tool for quickly drawing sequence diagrams.

Creating a Outlook Calendar using WPF (Part 1)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:46:03 GMT

A detailed article on how to create a Outlook Calendar clone using WPF

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

Migrating Legacy a WPF Application to Prism - Part 2

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:53:39 GMT

After my initial successes in moving to a Prism-style bootstrapper in Part 1 it was time to move onto the next step. But in the case of a legacy application, what's the next step? This article looks at getting the infrastructure in place to start working on the first View.

WPF easy rounded corners for anything

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:29:50 GMT

WPF's Border element allows you to specify a different radius for each corner. Unfortunately it doesn't clip content to fit inside the boundary. While there are other solutions, this one is my favorite so far... :)

Migrating Legacy WPF Applications to Prism - Part 1

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:48:00 GMT

This is the first of several posts on my journey migrating a legacy application to use the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, which (like Brian Noyes) I prefer to call Prism, mainly because it's shorter, but it's also cooler! I've watched the "Brian Noyes on Prism" dnr TV episode intently, read through the guidance documentation, I've done the hands-on lab, all of the quick starts and dissected and analysed the StockTraderRI sample application, so now I figure I'm ready to start cranking some Prism code for our legacy application.

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:07 GMT

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