Aug
11

Using Style & Triggers For Complex Interactivity

Many times I try to take as much of the presentation logic out of the viewmodel as possible.  While using a MVVM pattern, sometimes it’s easy to be lazy and create boolean or visibility properties to handle logic on the front-end.  This week I’m showing a quick way to abstract that logic to the view only and not have to worry about cluttering your viewmodel.

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May
06

Using Dynamic SLA Documents in Web Service Testing

As part of my Computer Science M.S. degree, I tend to write pitiful papers from time to time.  I’m posting this paper online because I want fair and honest critique.  I’m not a strong writer but I believe my ideas may be of some use.  This paper details using dynamically-generated SLA documents to create an expansive test suite over a web service above and beyond what unit-test generation from WSDLs can do.

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Apr
19

Wordle

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Mar
22

My Quest for a Codeless User Interface

There is not doubt about it.  I love XAML!  Coming from someone with a web application background, I understand the importance of using markup to define visual traits of an application.  I also understand that the transition from HTML to XAML is very smooth and will lead to a new generation of .NET developers who design user experiences for both the desktop and web.  What I have yet to see, is a complex User Interface written without a lot of unnecessary code-behind.  XAML was designed so that you keep all of your user-interface logic in the markup and your business logic will dominate your code behind and libraries.  Unfortunately, I have yet to see this pattern manifest.
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Mar
09

WPF AutoCompleteBox

Thanks Microsoft… for two things

1. Making a new AutoCompleteBox for WPF included in the February 2010 relase of WPF Toolkit: http://www.codeplex.com/wpf

2. Not letting any devs know that this was in the pipeline, since half of the internet’s WPF developers went on ahead and recreated their own imperfect (read: basterdized) versions of the AutoComplete Control

All joking aside.  This is exciting and i’m very happy!

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