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Presentation from my Tech-Ed Session by Tomer Shamam

To all of you who participated in my WPF Data Binding lecture at Tech-Ed Israel 2008, you can download my presentation from here . Also you can download the Aquarium Demo from here . Thanks

Demo from my Tech-Ed Session by Tomer Shamam

Thanks a lot to all of you who participated in my WPF Data Binding lecture at Tech-Ed Israel 2008. I hope that you enjoyed and learned from my lecture. If you have any question about any of the topics I talked about, please feel free to ask here. As I promised, here is the Aquarium Demo in Visual Studio 2008 format. You can download and use it for non-commercial use. Here are several screen shots to remember: As for the presentation, it will be published soon in the Tech-Ed site .

MVC by Noam by Tomer Shamam

Noam King is a great lecturer and I like the way he use music instrumentals in his lectures. Although WEB development is not my kind, I really enjoyed his lecture about MVC. I think that MVC is a great concept and an architectural evolution in ASP.NET development> It provides a great option to decide what page is downloaded to the client, by talking to the Controller instead of statically download the page using its URL. and Noam described it well in his musical lecture. I encourage you to see...

WPF Panel & Data Binding by Tomer Shamam

WPF Data Binding on behalf of ItemsControl provides an elegant solution for collection of data types. All you have to do is simple as: < ListBox ItemsSource ="{ Binding Path =Items}" ... /> But what if you want to bind the same collection to a Panel, let say UniformGrid , WrapPanel or other custom panel? Trying to bind the Panel.Children collection using the same technique above, results in a big ERROR! And the reason is: Panel.Children is not designed to be bind, hence Children is...

Data Binding for Pure CLR Objects by Tomer Shamam

WPF has a great support for handling data: Data Binding. Unfortunately, one of the elements you bind to (the target) must have a DependencyProperty (known as the target-property). What if you don't have a dependency property to bind to, or you just want to bind two CLR types? For example let say that you wrote an application for simulating a car. You may have a Car and a Speedometer classes. Let say that a car handles its own speed, hence the car has its own speed state exposed by a Speed property...

Come to see me at Tech-Ed Israel 2008 by Tomer Shamam

Tech-Ed Israel 2008 is coming soon, and I'm preparing a lecture about WPF Data Binding and Data Templates. In my lecture, I will talk about WPF Data Binding and Data Visualization I will show how to design data entities to support data binding, and how to visualize them with data templates. As part of my lecture, I will show how to build an application based on these concepts. The topics I'll cover are: Designing Data Entities around Data Binding Binding Source to Target Notifying Source...