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Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:27:38 GMT

Optimally, it would be nice to be able to add your desktop CLR objects as resources to your XAP, and from Silverlight code, be able to instantiate and use your Desktop .NET classes. This is a hack to do just that without registering any COM dlls.

Silverlight and Desktop .NET interop

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:58:18 GMT

Get a Silverlight Out-of-browser application to use full desktop .NET assemblies without any C++/COM stank.

Reverse ICommands for MVVM

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:23:35 GMT

One of the problems with MVVM designs is the inability of the ViewModel to singularly effect change(s) within the View; yes, you can use data-changes through data-binding as a crude-bludgeon, but I'd rather have the right tools for the right job. And that is where Reverse ICommands come in, they allow you to execute an ICommand in your ViewModel and have it trigger a set of specified action(s) in the View - the reverse taxonomy speaks to the fact that reverse ICommands targets your View rather than the ViewModel.

Host Silverlight in WPF. Interactive w/o Airspace Restrictions.

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:57:45 GMT

Host Silverlight applications in WPF as if they were just another WPF control. This control is still experimental and not everything is supported just yet.

How to get access to WPF's internal Direct3D guts

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:40:54 GMT

Get access to WPF's internal IDirect3DDevice9 and SwapChain...even the render thread!

Direct3D 10/11 & Direct2D in WPF

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:39:03 GMT

Direct3D 10/11 & Direct2D in WPF without airspace restrictions.

New WPF Features: Easing Functions

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:45:05 GMT

Easing functions enables adding custom math formulas to your animations. The animations also looks more realistic and smoother. WPF now provides this functionality and as in SL there are 11 such inbuilt functions. Each of these come with 2 Easing Modes

MVVM with Prism 101 - Part 3b: View Injection and Controller Pattern

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:45:33 GMT

In my last post I addressed regions in the Composite Application Library for WPF/Silverlight (Prism). I looked at what they were and how they were used. But by the end of the post I felt that the concept of View Injection needed further attention. I've almost exclusively used View Discovery up to this point in my development. But when I've run into a need to use View Injection I'm uncomfortable with what seems to be a tightly coupled relationship.

Anatomy of an MVVM Application or How Tards Like Me Make MVVM Apps 2

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:34:39 GMT

MVVM apps for r-tards.

MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:45:00 GMT

MVVM for 'tards, not dummies.

YouCube 3.0 - WPF 3D Chromium Browser

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:30:02 GMT

There's an updated version of YouCube (WPF 3D Web Browser) available based on my Awesomium / Chromium WPF control.

A Real WPF WebBrowser

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:48:06 GMT

Being able to render and interact with webpages within WPF opens up some great opportunities. While WPF already includes a WebBrowser, it's just a wrapper around IE's ActiveX control. Unfortunately this prevents it playing nicely with WPF's layout system. Mixing Google's Chromium project, a great wrapper called Awesomium and a little WPF pixie dust, we finally have one...

Simple Styles for Silverlight from nerdplusart.com

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:12:47 GMT

Finally, we have simple styles for Silverlight!

CLR Injection: Runtime Method Replacer

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:00 GMT

how the JIT compiles MSIL and create a utility that allow us to programmatically replace any JIT'ed method with another method at runtime. We will also create a debugging utility that will intercept JIT calls and print diagnostics information to the console.

Var - A Warning

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:20:49 GMT

Don't over-use var keyword. It's not as clear what is going on if you do.

.Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:05:49 GMT

.Net Framework 4.0 introduces memory mapped files. Memory mapped files are useful when you need to do in-memory data manipulation and your data structures are large. For large in-memory data the performance of memory mapped file is the best. It is much faster than MemoryStream. And like files on hard disc, memory mapped files can be shared between different programs.

Regions in Prism Video

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:54:26 GMT

Regions in Prism are kind of like Master Pages. They allow us to have master and sub-views. If you're interested in composing views separately and then bringing them together in the running application, Regions are for you. As with all of the things in Prism, Regions are a part of the buffet. You can use them or not at your discretion.

Prism for Silverlight 2: Taking 'Hello World' to a Whole New Level

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:43:03 GMT

A demo/reference sample of using Prism 2 for Silverlight with WCF and what I learned.

A Viewmodel for the ObservableCollection

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:34:35 GMT

In this post I will describe a viewmodel that holds an ObservableCollection. The viewmodel called ObservableViewModel, can be used to navigate through a collection and make changes to it. I will also give an example on how to use it.

Glass Behavior for WPF

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:46:03 GMT

A new custom behavior for WPF that allows for a glass like effect. Essentially you can place this behavior on any Visual, point to to a target visual and give it an effect and it will create an effect that looks like a piece of glass was placed over the screen. You pretty much can make your own Aero effects within your application. . .

Thriple - a library of 3D WPF components

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:08:23 GMT

A CodePlex project by Josh Smith that contains 3D WPF components.

USB FM radio library was published on CodePlex

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:47:23 GMT

Fully managed (C#) open source library to support USB FM radios with RDS and TMC support

How to write WPF or Silverlight program without XAML

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:34:47 GMT

From the moment, 10K MIX09 contest was launched, people keep asking the same question: Is it possible to have Silverlight program up and running without XAML at all? The answer is: YES. This article explains how

AttachedCommandBehavior aka ACB

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:13:27 GMT

This is a solution to attach a command to any Event of any Control in WPF

Preview of Windows 7

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:39:39 GMT

A preview of Windows 7 Pre-Beta on a high-end laptop.