World Cup 2010 Application for Windows Mobile: The panoramic UX proof (www.mobilepractices.com)

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A beautiful World Cup application for Windows Mobile 6.x that has a panoramic touch UI that is very similar to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 approach. read more...

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The Single-Page Interface Pattern(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by juliandominguez(120) 2 years, 3 months ago

Typically, the user interface in Web Applications is composed of multiple pages. Now with the increasing popularity of AJAX, it is common that people want to develop Web applications that are similar and provide the same user experience as desktop applications. One common problem in Web applications is the constant page reloads and flickering when navigating the application. read more...

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Progressive Enhancement in Web Applications(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by juliandominguez(120) 2 years, 3 months ago

Progressive Enhancement (PE) is an approach for building Web Applications that starts from the perspective that a user browser experience will support a minimum functionality, this is called base line, but has hooks to allow functional enhancements when a browser can support them. PE benefits users by supporting older browsers, but also supporting users with modern browsers and technologies by providing them an improved experience. The progressive enhancement and its counterpart, Graceful Degradation, are approaches that can help rich Web Applications support more browsers and have a wider reach. read more...

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Memory Leak removing View with child regions in Prism-v2(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 5 months ago

About a week ago in the Prism forum we got a question about an issue in the scenario displayed below. The Issue: When the MainView was removed from the MainRegion, the RightOne and RightTwo regions were not removed from the RegionManager and the views were still being referenced by the region. We were able to reproduce this issue “successfully” both using scoped regions and without them so we started thinking on a possible fix for this... read more...

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Will Silverlight 4 ICommand support simplify using commands in Prism?(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 5 months ago

As I thought this is a question that could interest many people, instead of answering this question directly in the Prism codeplex forum I decided to create a short blog post and answer it here. The answer is “kind of”. Silverlight 4 Beta, so far, only supports binding commands to controls that inherit from ButtonBase (Button and HyperlinkButton), as you can read in Tim’s and Mike’s posts. Therefore, if you are using Prism, these are the things that you will not need any more, and those that you will... read more...

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Prism 2 migrated to Silverlight 4 Beta(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

Most of you know that a Silverlight 4 Beta was released last Wednesday, after Scott Gu’s PDC keynote. If you are a Prism user, and if you are reading this there’s a high chance you are, you are probably wondering how this relates to p&p future plans. Well, Blaine has given us a brief idea of Prism’s future in this forum thread, so you might want to check it out. On a related but different subject Fernando and I migrated the latest Prism release to Silverlight 4 Beta version & Net 4.0. A few minor changes needed to be done in the code (explained here), and some other in the .csproj files due to an issue we came up using the Silverlight migration wizard... read more...

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p&p’s Web Client Guidance drop is out!(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

As some of you might probably know because of some posts by Blaine, the patterns & practices team that brought you Prism is working on a new Web guidance. This project is currently under development, and as with all p&p assets, we opened up our biweekly drops to the community, so we can get early feedback from you.... read more...

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p&p’s Web Client Guidance drop is out!(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

As some of you might probably know because of some posts by Blaine, the patterns & practices team that brought you Prism is working on a new Web guidance. This project is currently under development, and as with all p&p assets, we opened up our biweekly drops to the community, so we can get early feedback from you.... read more...

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Learning Prism, MVVM Fundamentals(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

On a previous post in this series I talked about a possible approach to take when starting to learn Prism as a whole (the Tip numbering is resumed from the previous post). In this post I will get more specific and talk about one of the most used (if not the most used) pattern when developing Prism applications (either for WPF & Silverlight): MVVM... read more...

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Prism 2 migrated to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

As most of you might know, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released some days ago. Ever since, many people have asked at the Prism codeplex forums if Prism works with this latest version. That’s why with Fer we decided to migrate Prism latest release for Silverlight 3 to VS 2010 Beta 2. Our conclusion after our smoke tests is that it does workl... read more...

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Why Silverlight 3 Navigation cannot be fully leveraged with Prism-v2(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

Now that the Prism team has shipped a new version of the guidance, I thought it would be a good time to blog on this subject, based on some research we did with Ezequiel, Matias and Julian. This article will not focus on how to workaround the limitations of using Silverlight 3 Navigation with Prism (as the guys who wrote the posts mentioned below have done a good job on that) instead it will focus on the why of these limitations... read more...

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Prism - v2.1 just released (updated version for Silverlight 3)(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 6 months ago

The patterns & practices team has just released Prism-v2.1, an updated version of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight, which has some breaking changes, mostly related to Silverlight 3 (from the “New in this release” article):... read more...

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Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight).(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by ejadib(185) 2 years, 7 months ago

A question we get asked frequently is: “How do I start learning Prism? Is there a particular order for the Quickstarts? What other web resources do you recommend to start learning?”. If you are in this situation, or just want to have some more insight on a particular Prism topic, this is the post for you (I always wanted to say that, just like TV announcements :))The basic question: “How do I start learning Prism?” The first thing you should do to start learning Prism (assuming you know WPF/Silverlight)... read more...

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Prism-v2 C# Snippets with Guidance, Links and Tips(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 8 months ago

Most developers are familiar with code snippets. They are really useful while developing code, mainly because they make some of the most common developing tasks easier and faster, by making us just fill in a couple of blanks. This is great, but Julian had an idea that I believe will make the code snippets we created even more useful. He said: “What if we not only provide the code snippets, but we also add some guidance, links and tips based on our experience as Prism developers, that will help others with these common tasks”. Matias, Ezequiel and me thought this was a great idea, specially for people starting with Prism... read more...

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Developing application with WPF and Windows 7 (Part II)(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by dschenkelman(450) 2 years, 8 months ago

In my previous post I talked about how to integrate some of the Windows 7 features (specifically Overlay Images and Taskbar Progress) in a WPF application we created for a screencast (in Spanish). In this post I will go over the remaining features I have yet to cover. These are: * How to: Show a thumbnail of the application * How to: Use Thumbnail Toolbar buttons * How to: Open a new application with the Jumplist Last time we ended up with this application, so you might be interested in downloading it, since all changes shown in this post will be done to it. read more...

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Claims based Authentication & Authorization: The Guide(blogs.southworks.net)

submitted by mwoloski(160) 2 years, 9 months ago

Eugenio announced yesterday the kickoff of a new guide from patterns & practices in which I’m collaborating: Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide. This is not a new topic as Eugenio suggests in his blog, but it’s getting more and more attention because: •Technology is more mature, hence it’s easier to implement claim-based identity •Enterprises are failing to control the amount of different identity repositories, leading to higher provisioning/deprovisioning costs, security problems, etc. •End users want simpler user experiences and less passwords •The cloud makes all these even more challenging ... read more...

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