Category Archives: Patterns & Skills
MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid*
[ Revised with C# and VB.NET code] Okay, first, understand that I’m in the position of running through the streets yelling at folks “c’mere! ya’ gotta see this!” and what I’m pointing to is the incredible new invention of… a … Continue reading
MEF, Silverlight and the HVP
This article is part of the Mini-Tutorial Series Executive Summary This article continues the design and exploration phase of the Silverlight HVP project by beginning to examine the role the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) will play in solving a number … Continue reading
When Is It OK To Hack?
This mini-tutorial is part of the SLHVP documentation One of the goals of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project is to demonstrate best practices. So when is it okay to throw in a quick hack to get things working?
Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers
This posting is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform documentation and a Silverlight Mini-tutorial. The information in this posting, however, should be of interest to anyone writing meaningful Line of Business applications with Silverlight. The premise of the classic 1956 … Continue reading
Rapidly Evolving Design
The problem with using a blog to track a rapidly evolving design, is that blogs don’t make for very fluid documents; the unwritten rule is that once posted, you ought not go back and substantially alter a post. Matching Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractices, Patterns
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Configuration Files for Silverlight HVP
This mini-tutorial is part of the Silverlight HyperVideo Project documentation. Taking Risks One of the great pleasures, and total terrors of documenting this open-source application is that occasionally I have to offer up some half-baked ideas that risk displaying how … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, HVP, XML
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