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BESUG Session on Demystifying MVVM – code + slidedeck
[30 Apr 2010 | 0 Comments]

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on MVVM at BESUG yesterday (and thanks for the nice comments ;-))!  As promised, you can find the slidedeck and code here.

 

Included: Powerpoint slides, completed solution and DB Backup. 

 

What you need to run this: Visual Studio 2010 & Silverlight 4 (which includes WCF RIA Services).  For the database, you’ll need SQL Server 2008. 

 

    1. Restore the DB Backup
    2. Change the connection string in web.config
    3. Build, run & play with the code :-)

Hope to see you guys soon at some other event!  If you’ve got any questions on this, don’t hesitate to contact me.

 

Note: this session was also recorded and it scheduled to appear on Microsoft Chopsticks.  Once it’s been published, I’ll post the link.

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Demystifying MVVM Techdays 2010 Portugal: slidedeck & democode
[22 Apr 2010 | 4 Comments]

As promised, here is the content from my Demystifying MVVM session @ Techdays Portugal.  For those who weren’t there, there’s a lot of stuff in this demo code:

 

  • MVVM base classes,
  • Connecting VM’s to V, using the Locator pattern
  • Connecting them using MEF
  • Unit Testing
  • MEF & Mocking
  • Command implementations (regular & generic), CommandTriggerAction
  • App wide messaging
  • Auto IsDirty support with WCF RIA Services
  • IDialogService implementation for showing Dialogs the MVVM way (same principle applies for your own navigation, states, animations, …)
  • … and some more stuff.

 

So: have a look at the code, and start MVVM-ing yourself in mintues! ;-)

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Techdays 2010 Portugal: upcoming sessions
[20 Apr 2010 | 0 Comments]

Just a quick reminder: Maarten Balliauw and I will be speaking at Techdays 2010 in Portugal this Thursday (that is, if our flight isn’t cancelled due to the ash cloud). 

 

We’ll be doing one session together: PHP + Silverlight, on how to get those two techs working together.  Maarten will be doing a session on PHP & his Azure SDK for it, Just another Wordpress blog, but more Cloudy , and I will be doing a session called Demystifying MVVM, on the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in Silverlight.

 

You will be able to find both the Powerpoint & demo code for my session on this blog soon after the sessions!

 

Feel free to say hi if you see me running around somewhere :-)