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Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction A typical Silverlight application (or any application with a GUI) contains elements or controls like command buttons , menu items, text boxes etc. The user of the application...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 4:01 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: How To, fluent Silverlight, Silverlight

Fluent Silverlight – Table of content

In a series of posts I would like to introduce our Fluent Silverlight framework and discuss the important concepts behind it and describe some implementation details. This post will be updated continuously as I am adding new posts to the series Table...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 3:54 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: fluent Silverlight, MVVM pattern, data binding, Silverlight, framework

Fluent Silverlight – static reflection

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my last post about binding dependency properties of a Silverlight control to a view model I used LINQ expressions to define the binding. I have written in the past about static reflection...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 3:29 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, lambda expressions, reflection, fluent Silverlight, data binding, Silverlight

Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my previous posts ( here and here ) I discussed how one can build a fluent API for the definition of objects. In the context of Fluent Silverlight these objects are Silverlight controls...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 3:47 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, fluent Silverlight, data binding, Silverlight

Silverlight and styles

This post is the result of a couple of frustrating moments passed yesterday. In our application we use the date picker control of the Silverlight toolkit. Unfortunately this control does not work exactly as we would like to thus I decided to redefine...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 3:43 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: fluent Silverlight, Silverlight, Styles and Templates

Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction In my last post I showed how we can implement a fluent API to help us construct instances of specific classes. When using a fluent API the code is in general much more readable...

Published Sun, Jan 03 2010 11:09 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, How To, fluent Silverlight, Silverlight

Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction Quite some time has passed since we published our Fluent Silverlight framework. In the mean time we have been very busy extending the framework and using it in our internal products...

Published Sat, Jan 02 2010 12:04 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, How To, tutorial, fluent Silverlight, Silverlight

Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2

Introduction Unfortunately there doesn’t yet exist any decent profiler for Silverlight applications. This fact inspired me to write my own profiler which is able to profile any member of any assembly of our solution and help me track down performance...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 3:31 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, How To, Silverlight, Mono Cecil

Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 1

In this article I want to discuss the steps needed to instrument a Silverlight assembly such as that it can be profiled. To achieve this task I use Mono Cecil, a library from the Mono platform which is an open source implementation of .NET. Introduction...

Published Thu, Nov 26 2009 9:42 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: introduction, How To, Silverlight, Mono Cecil, MSIL, Mono

Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS

Introduction Our clients install our product on different environments. Some of them have 32bit server OS others have pure 64bit environments. Due to the lack of a 64bit version of a driver we use we have to run certain tools in 32bit mode. But since...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 6:40 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: misc, How To

Leaving Switzerland

Dear reader you might have asked yourself why I have been quiet for such a long time. Well, one of the reasons is that I have been preparing my move from Switzerland to the United States; and more precisely to Austin TX. The following post talks about...

Published Mon, Oct 05 2009 3:12 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: misc, personal

Article series on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate – Part 3

Today the third part of my series on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate went live. You can read it here . Summary In part 3 of this article series about NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate I have discussed how to let Fluent NHibernate automatically map a domain...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2009 7:49 AM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: How To, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, tutorial

Walking through the creation of a complex installer package

Introduction In this post I want to describe the issues and pain points I had when trying to generate a setup package for a complex product with many thousand of files. This is a post mainly for self documenting purposes but hopefully it might add some...

Published Fri, Jun 26 2009 3:05 PM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: tutorial, installation, NSIS, WIX

Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands

Introduction In the last two posts I introduced Fluent Silverlight which is a new framework designed to offer a strongly typed alternative to the XAML based definition of Silverlight views and its “magic string” based data binding of properties of the...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2009 12:50 AM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: lambda expressions, fluent Silverlight, data binding, commands, Silverlight

Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties

Introduction After having introduced the new Fluent Silverlight framework in part 1 it is now time to dig a little bit deeper and discuss some implementation details. This time I’ll have a look into the details how we bind a property of a Silverlight...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2009 12:22 AM by Gabriel N. Schenker

Filed under: fluent Silverlight, MVVM pattern, data binding

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