Vista Squad

Just a reminder to all you WPF and Silverlight developers out there that I'm presenting at Nxtgen Cambridge on the MVVM pattern.  We will look at how to design a WPF application and spend quite a lot of time deep in code. I have one more space in the car leaving Windsor if anyone needs a lift, so sign up below to let them know you're ...

Vista Squad ''First Blood Part II'' Wednesday 17th September Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 17th of September at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. Topics this month: WPF/Silverlight Application Deep Dive(Richard Godfrey, iPrinciples) TBC(James Senior, Microsoft) Directions to ...

Some advance notice on a talk I'm giving for Nxtgen in Cambridge in November.  Abstract: "From the basics to the not so basic, WPF is an amazing framework. In this talk we'll look at creating simple data bound applications moving towards a practical framework for WPF projects. Sound pattern based approaches to building your ...

In a medium sized project I'm working on at the moment, we've had a rather large memory leak issue.  We've implemented our tiers in a pattern called MVVM. I wasn't sure on how well this would work but to be honest, its been an amazing pattern to follow and pretty easy to get right. Our UI exclusively does binding, I.e. there is no real code ...

Lucky me!  In the post during the week I received a copy of the new book by Charles Petzold - "3D Programming for Windows".  I read his first book on WPF - "Applications = Code + Markup" and loved that and am really happy to start reading this book.  Charles was kind enough to send me a copy for free and I am ...

On a secret little project I've been working on for the last two weeks I came across something interesting in Silverlight and WPF. When you're developing WPF applications, code and XAML re-use is paramount.  Using templates is an absolute requirement to reduce the amount of XAML that a client has to download especially for ...

On a secret little project I've been working on for the last two weeks I came across something interesting in Silverlight and WPF. When you're developing WPF applications, code and XAML re-use is paramount.  Using templates is an absolute requirement to reduce the amount of XAML that a client has to download especially for Silverlight.  ...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752324.aspx I hope that this helps someone :)  

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2092 Loads of stuff here!