November 2007

The easiest way to bind to CLR objects with WPF (or Blend) is to derive a list from ObservableCollection. Furthermore, in order to get design-time support, you need to implement a constructor that fills up the list with “dummy” data that can be displayed by Blend.

Thus, I added this class to my CD cover example:

I create an ECO space, open it and retrieve 10 objects from Continue reading

After a weekend of reading, more reading, and listening to conference sessions about WPF I finally had the guts to try writing an ECO application with WPF. And wow … it worked. I have still some things to work out and I will do my best to pitch some ideas to the ECO development team what I would like to see in the future with regard to WPF… but writing applications Continue reading

I am still busy enough with catching up on WPF, however, Stefan Cruysberghs (hope I spelled it correctly) published a three part article series on his web page that gets you familiar with all the things you can do with Linq. Personally, I still prefer ECO as I am familiar with it and need to look at WPF and WCF first. Still, it is always good to at least know Continue reading

It is Saturday and I am filled up with lots and lots of information. I have been reading “Essential Windows Presentation Foundation” by Chris Anderson. In addition to that, I have been watching the bootcamp courses I blogged about yesterday. However, what is really difficult, is to find information that is still valid in the RTM version of VS 2008. MS changed quite a lot of things in the process Continue reading

Yes, of course, as a .NET guy, I also use VS. Due to my new job I also have to use it frequently. I was very much interested in WPF in the first place. I already bought a book about it about six months ago, however, the beta releases and previews never allowed me to have a proper look at it. But since Tuesday, when Microsoft released VS 2008, that all Continue reading