Today (second day after my vacation :-)), I’ve been looking for a solution to a rather nasty memory leak in a Silverlight application.  Typically, you can do this in two ways: by using WinDebug, or through Visual Studio’s Immediate Window.   I’m not going to go into the specifics of both... [More]

My publisher is looking for new authors, so this might be the ideal time :-)  Have a look at the following:   Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, plans to expand its range of Silverlight books and is currently inviting inquiries from people who fancy writing a Silv... [More]

Gill Cleeren, with whom I wrote this book, posted a blog update with some reviews.  And I’m pleased to say: they’re good, very good even! :-)  Here are some excerpts:   Richard Costall’s review:   Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook is a great publication, a... [More]

As mentioned in my previous post, my BESUG session on Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight was recorded.  Well, today, it was posted at Channel 9!   For those of you who want to listen to my session, these are the links (att: in Dutch):   http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/adebruyn/Dem... [More]

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 ... [More]

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 ... [More]

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.  Maart... [More]

The MIX2010 conference has ended, most of the attendees are back home and are looking back at an eventful conference – and Vegas is a pretty nice location :-)  In case you missed it, here are some of the more interesting links (disclaimer: personal selection :)) to have a look at:   V... [More]

The most important conference for .NET (web) developers of the year is coming up: MIX10, again in Las Vegas this year, from March 15th to 17th.   This is the first year I’m going, and I’m really looking forward to it (staying at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, as most of the attendees :-)).  I’m... [More]

One of the more common problems (or rather: challenges :)) you’ll run in to when working with the MVVM design pattern is binding from a DataTemplate of an ItemsControl to a command defined on your ViewModel.  For example: you might have a ListBox filled with items, and you want a button i... [More]