Subversion repository dump: WPF and Silverlight application, with MVVM (revision 25)

  • October 24, 2010
  • James Skemp
As alluded to in a previous post, in regards to an excellent Silverlight/WPF with MVVM tutorial, I've begun looking into the MVVM pattern, as I begin moving towards WPF and Silverlight for applications. Having fully watched the series twice, and begun a third watch working through the example, albeit with the Northwind sample database, I decided to share my labor with others. To that end I present a Subversion repository dump with a fairly step-by-step look at how to go from nothing to a simple application with WPF and Silverlight support.

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Excellent Silverlight/WPF MVVM video series

  • October 17, 2010
  • James Skemp
Here's an excellent video series on Silverlight/WPF (XAML basically) and the MVVM pattern. He does, what I believe to be, an excellent job of covering XAML and MVVM during this series, and includes a bit of unit testing as well. Part one is included below, but another user on YouTube created a Playlist with the eight videos released. Update: Or you can view his blog post, time cockpit at NRWConf.

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My first Silverlight Web application

  • July 19, 2010
  • James Skemp
The more I do with Microsoft technologies the hard it becomes for me to want to move outside of them. With the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2010, which is the best development tool I think I've ever used, it's easy to get sucked in. Since I've wanted to experiment with it for a while, and since I needed to do some kind of development after slacking off this weekend, I looked into creating a simple Silverlight application that would use the same Web service I created late last month.

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