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Unity - Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:01:14 GMT

Dependency injection is a programming technique to reduce component coupling. Dependency injection is also commonly known as "inversion of control" or IoC or sometimes as The Hollywood Principle - "Don't call us, we'll call you". The goal of dependency injection is to separate the concerns of how a dependency is obtained from the core concerns of a boundary. This improves reusability by enabling components to be supplied with dependencies which may vary depending on context.

Silverlight 2 Visibility Bug With The Canvas

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:01:02 GMT

A solution to the Visibility bug with the Canvas in Silverlight 2.

The Developer Exchange Program

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

How much better a developer would you be if you could regularly observe another Agile team in action... in person.

Silverlight 2 Navigating Between Xaml Pages

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

One of the problems I've run across while playing around with the Beta is the lack of support for any easy way to navigate around you application by moving between Xaml pages. Here is a nice little solution.

Can't think of a good class name?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Try this

There's some darkness in your silver light.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:16:05 GMT

Rob voices his complaints about Silverlight 2.0 from the perspective of a developer of WPF and Flash applications.

Linq joining to in-memory collections is bad

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:17:57 GMT

Mel Grubb found a situation where a simple LINQ join lead to an OutOfMemoryException.

Silverlight 2.0 + OOXML = TextGlow

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:31:02 GMT

A Word 2007 document viewer built with Silverlight. An example of what is possible using the power of Silverlight 2.0.

LINQ to SQL In Disconnected/N-Tier scenarios: Saving an Object

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

LINQ to SQL is a great tool, but when you're using it in an n-tier scenario, there are several problems that you have to solve. A simple example is a web service that allows you to retrieve a record of data and save a record of data when the object that you are loading/saving had child lists of objects.

TextBox MaxLength From LINQ Meta Data

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Set the MaxLength property using LINQ Meta Data.

Scott Gu: Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 6

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 5

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data.

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

Using CROSS JOIN to generate test data

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

In this blog, Joe demonstrates the power of the CROSS JOIN and how it can be harnessed to create lots of test data very quickly.

Custom Controls Design Time Support Part 13: Adding Snaplines

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

This post shows how to add custom Snaplines for your custom windows controls. Includes a sample and source code.

The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rathe

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:46:01 GMT