Essential WPF

Mole for Visual Studio 2010 by Tomer Shamam

Just in case that you've missed the great news, Karl Shifflett released the new version of Mole, called Mole 2010 . This version has many new features and it makes the previous free versions to be looked half-baked prototype, as Karl mentioned. Note that this version is a commercial version and it will cost $$. If you're asking me, It worth every penny, but if you care about your money you can still use the old version with Visual Studio 2010. You can download a free version from here , also...

WPF 4 Multitouch Application testing with Microsoft Touch Mouse by Tomer Shamam

One of the greatest features in WPF 4 is the built-in support of Windows 7 multitouch gestures. Developing multitouch applications for Windows 7 you should have a special multitouch screen, and usually you don't have it, at least not in your development laptop. So you have to buy one, or use the PDC 2009 laptop: Acer Aspire 1420P give-away. The problem in such case is that you'll have to use remote-debug to debug your multitouch gestures, and it's awkward. There are several NUI alternatives...

Blendability Part IV – Design Time Support for MEF by Tomer Shamam

In my previous post I've discussed the usage of MEF with the famous MVVM pattern, and demonstrated the usage of my Import markup-extension, and how it can replace the View Model Locator with an elegant syntax. In this post I would like to reveal and discuss the implementation of the Import markup-extension. Let's begin with a short story. Say that you're building an application for controlling a robot. The robot lives happily in a 2D surface, and can be move freely in between the surface's...

Productivity Power Tools turns my Visual Studio into a Zombie by Tomer Shamam

Lately, I've noticed my Visual Studio 2010 run Veerrryyyy Sllooowwww…. in every aspect: Building, Working with the solution, Intellisence and Designer and XAML editor. Tried to figure out what's going on over there…, I have a pretty nice machine, running on i7, 4G and ATI Mobility Radeon 4670. I'm sure it should run faster! I suddenly remembered that I've installed the Productivity Power Tools since I'm using one of its great feature to copy and paste Code/XAML from Visual Studio...