Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 2 months ago

Since the initial release of Silverlight i was really annoyed by the fact that Unit Testing had very slim support. Even later when Silverlight Unit Testing Framework was introduced by Microsoft things became little better but still it was far from good. You could create Unit Tests, but you had to start your Visual Studio in order to run them – eventually looking at the results of tests in your favorite Web Browser... read more...

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Certification, is it worth the ride?(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 3 months ago

Now some good news folks: I received the confirmation that I successfully passed the Silverlight 4 Microsoft Certification. I was too busy to immediately brag about it and write a show-off post so I will here just quickly share my thoughts on how all this went before my brain moves these impressions to non-accessible-memory-banks-prepared-for-deletion. read more...

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Asymmetric Encryption and Signing with RSA in Silverlight(www.dustinhorne.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 6 months ago

While Silverlight is a powerful tool for rich client applications, it lacks the ability to perform asymmetric encryption out of the box. In this article, I'm going to share a cryptography class library I've been working on and show you how to use it to perform standards compliant RSA Encryption in Silverlight that is cross compatible with .NET's built in RSACryptoServiceProvider, allowing you to encrypt from Silverlight using my library and decrypt on your website using the RSACryptoServiceProvider. For brevity, only examples using my class library will be shown except for a few examples that show equivelant functionality from the RSACryptoServiceProvider (RSACSP). read more...

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Gaia Ajax 3.7 BETA release(blogs.gaiaware.net)

submitted by stiansol(120) 1 year, 6 months ago

More power and simplicity to Ajax on the ASP.NET and Mono platform. VS.NET 2010 Support (Improved Design Time Experience) DRIMR enhancements (All extensions now utilize DRIMR) Compatibility with ASP.NET and 3rd party control libraries read more...

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NDC2010: Michael Feathers – The deep synergy between good design and t(blog.lowendahl.net)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 6 months ago

Review of the NDC2010: Michael Feathers presentation – The deep synergy between good design and testability. read more...

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Introducing the Prism Navigation Framework for Silverlight MVVM Apps(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 7 months ago

After receiving a lot of positive feedback and requests for source code for my previous post on Prism navigation i decided to release the code i had as open source project. This is how Prism Navigation Framework project was born. My intention was to create simple-to-use but powerful-and-feature-full Navigation Framework for building Silverlight MVVM applications with Prism... read more...

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Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework & Prism to create MVVM Apps(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 7 months ago

This is introductory post for a series of posts where i will try to tackle the holy grail of MVVM applications – Navigation. To do this I will be using Prism from Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team (Silverlight version – latest drop) combined with Silverlight Navigation Framework and i will build small navigation framework on top of that... read more...

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Silverlight TextBox Control that immediately updates Text field(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 10 months ago

Standard Silverlight TextBox control is very useful but has one strange behavior: if you use TwoWay data binding and bind some property to controls Text property, when users type text into the control, this change is not propagated to the bound property until the control loses its focus. Lets see how to solve that problem easily... read more...

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What is wrong with Cosmopolitan theme (blog.vuscode.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 11 months ago

am HUGHE fan of Metro design paradigm, so I was more then excited to check out Silverlight business application theme pack containing the Metro theme template (“Cosmopolitan”) which was released officially couple of days ago. I am not designer but still wanted to share with community my initial impression and that is: WTF. Here is picture illustrating why.. read more...

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Cool INotifyPropertyChanged implementation for Silverlight and WPF(chris.59north.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 11 months ago

While working on a little MVVM thingy the other day, I ran into a sweet little piece of code that I wanted to share. I have seen several version of this around the web, but this is where I found this particular version. The piece of code gets rid of the ugly part of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. read more...

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Silverlight MergedDictionaries – styles & resources from Class Libs(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 1 year, 11 months ago

If you were developing larger Silverlight/WPF applications and trying to keep things like styles, control templates and other resources organized it can become really hard. Prior to Silverlight 3 it was hell to be honest. But then nice people from Microsoft introduced lovely little feature called MergedDictionaries that allows you to combine the resources from different places in your application. read more...

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C# 4.0 Optional Parameters and Named Parameters(blog.johnplant.net)

submitted by rplant(750) 2 years, 1 month ago

I have been resisting the new Optional Parameter feature of C# 4.0 due to the way I thought it would implement rather then diving into it and finding out. read more...

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Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 2 years, 1 month ago

As feedback to my recent post on Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 I have received comments that the solution is not easy to Unit Test so i decided to create small blog posts on this subject just to show how simple and clean it is to do this... read more...

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Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 2 years, 1 month ago

I figured that there has to be a better way to solve this everyday problem so while working on my personal MVVM framework (yes, everyone is building one these days) i was setting these goals regarding the Web Service calls from my MVVM applications: 1. simplify as much as possible asynchronous invocation of Web Service methods (avoid writing boring boilerplate code for each call) 2. get rid of the Add Service Reference approach completely if possible 3. make the Web Services unit testable (hide them behind some interface so we can mock them in our unit tests) 4. simplify exception handling 5. fault tolerance (if web service client is faulted by exception it should be automatically recreated) ... read more...

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LinkedIn .NET User Group Online Presentation Tomorrow(blogs.gaiaware.net)

submitted by stiansol(120) 2 years, 2 months ago

We will hold an online, free presentation showing what you can do with Gaia Ajax when building next generation web applications in a fast, lightfoot and intelligent way. Jan Blomquist will demonstrate the power of our latest 3.6 version and why abstracting away JavaScript and developing in a managed language is crucial for time-to-market. 5 winners will be chosen at random from the list of attendees. Each of them will win an annual subscription of Gaia Ajax (worth $595). read more...

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Unit testing and mocking internal interfaces with RhinoMocks(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1708) 2 years, 3 months ago

Im not the kind of purist that will avoid unit testing internal classes. If its some very important code i want to test it even if its internal. Another case when i want to access internal classes is when i want to test some public class that uses some internal classes (via their interfaces). In this scenario i need to be able to mock those internal interfaces that the public class is using in order to be able to instantiate it and unit test it. read more...

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