12.06 @ Tampa Code Code Expect lots of good content at this code camp. My session description is... An Introduction to WPF - A session for those who would like to know what WPF is all about. We’ll cover the basic concepts of WPF, discuss where the technology is useful, and follow it up with a handful...

In WPF work, it is very common to work with implementations of INotifyPropertyChanged . We need support for change notification in order to bind to the UI, and this interface is frequently the best approach. This means I have lots of properties that look like this: public string FirstName { get { return...

ChumChase Table of Contents About 5pm today I was burnt-out from some difficult work on a particular client's project. Our last four projects have all been WPF with an emphasis on UI and UX. Fortunately, most of these were green field project, but the one I was working on today was not. What made...

Table of Contents Since my last post on building ChumChase, I've had a couple of projects that have changed my thinking just a bit about how to architect a WPF application. When I reviewed the code for ChumChase (in order to continue this series) I found it needlessly complicated in more than a few...

Rob and I have had the fantastic opportunity to contribute to Ayende's NHibernate Profiler . It's somewhat analogous to SQL Profiler, and yet—oh, so much more. I'm really excited about this tool, not just because it has afforded an opportunity for interesting WPF work, but because of what...

Rudi Grobler has had a number of good (and deliciously short) posts on WPF lately. I found the tips on using Blend particularly useful. (If you are a WPF developer and you are not familiar with Blend, you really ought to be.) He's also been exploring the recent release of the WPF Toolkit .

Most of our WPF projects end up with a lot of xaml resources. I do my best to try to keep them organized and easy to navigate. In many ways though, I am still learning . I often have a resource dictionary containing all of my default styles for a given application. When I collapse everything, the nodes...

The Caliburn.Testability assembly contains various classes related to unit testing a UI. You can use the BindingValidator to validate data bindings on DependencyObjects, DataTemplates and Styles. The easiest way to access this functionality is through the static Validator class.  It has several...

Updated 11/07/2008 I recently ran into an interesting situation. I had an ObservableCollection bound to my UI in WPF, and I needed to updated this collection on something other than the UI thread. In other words, I was adding items to a UI-bound collection on a different thread, which triggered the change...

Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex .  You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn .  Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online .  The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created for the framework which can be found in the 'samples'...