Essential WPF

Windows Phone 7 & Mango Session by Tomer Shamam

Thanks to all of you who participated in my Windows Phone 7 and Mango session today at Microsoft Raanana. It was a pleasure. Following is the presentation for the first part, and demos for both parts. Introduction to WP7 + Demos   The attached zip file contains WP7 Mango demos. You must download and install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta in order to build them. Note : The audio files has been removed from AudioPlaybackAgentDemo\Audio. Please add your own audio file in order to run this...

Windows Phone 7 Open House by Tomer Shamam

My colleague Erez Harari and I, are going to deliver half-day Windows Phone 7 seminar for developers at Microsoft Raanana. In this half-day we're going to present the Windows Phone 7 programming model for both Silverlight and XNA. In addition we are giving a quick preview of new features added with Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (aka Mango).   Here is the Updated Agenda: 08:30 – 09:00 Gathering 09:00 – 10:15 Introduction to Windows Phone 7 and Development with Silverlight 10:15 ...

Implicit DataTemplate in Silverlight 4 Composite UI – Get ready for Silverlight 5 (Part II) by Tomer Shamam

In this post I'll show how did I implemented the ContentControl implicit data-template using the ImplicitContentTemplateBehavior attached behavior. But first, lets talk a bit about how WPF searches for an implicit data template, given a content, so we can mimic that behavior in Silverlight.   Having a ContentControl with a Content set to an instance of type Circle, WPF looks at the ControlControl.ItemTemplate. In case that one is missing, and there is no ItemTemplateSelector, it changes...

Implicit DataTemplate in Silverlight 4 Composite UI – Get ready for Silverlight 5 (Part I) by Tomer Shamam

I'm using Prism 4 in one of my Silverlight 4 Composite UI. Working with Prism, there are two ways populating a Region: You can populate it with a UI element, which is the view, or placing the view-model directly. Personally I support the idea that a UI element must not be treated directly from the Application logic, and there should be ZERO UI elements in the Application logic. So natively, populating a region with a view-model instead of a view sounds more reasonable for me. With WPF things...

MVVM Open House at Sela Group by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in the MVVM session today I hope you've enjoyed it and learned something new. It was a great pleasure to speak in front of you. As I promised, here are the presentation and demo code. Also here is the Agenda for the 4 days Advanced WPF course at Sela Group. CodeProject