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Joe's Blog — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:05:00 GMT

New blog url: http://xamlcoder.com/blog After many months of ignoring my blog, I finally decided to try and get it fixed. After the last Community Server upgrade something in the software was broken, and I was unable to use Windows Live Writer to blog...(read more)

Building a Databound WPF Menu Using a HierarchicalDataTemplate

Joe's Blog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:49:00 GMT

I had a colleague ask me how he could solve a databinding problem while building a WPF Menu. The immediate answer wasn’t apparent to me, though it’s actually quite simple. A while back Karl Shifflett wrote up an excellent example of doing...(read more)

UI Design Patterns Presentation Code + Slide Deck

Joe's Blog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Thank you to everyone who came to my presentation on UI Design patterns! It was great to see so many people interested in patterns for building user interfaces. One user group member recorded the presentation on his laptop's webcam; I should have...(read more)

Utah .NET User Group Presentation - UI Design Patterns

Joe's Blog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT

Join me this week at the Utah .NET User Group where I’ll be giving a presentation on UI Design Patterns. UI Design Patterns In this session we’ll explore three UI design patterns: Model View Controller (MVC), Model View Presenter (MVP), and Model View...(read more)

Building composite Applications Using PRISM Presentation

Joe's Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Thank you to everyone who attended my presentation on PRISM at the Utah Code Camp this past weekend. Here’s a link to my sample code and slide deck. http://xamlcoder.com/joe/downloads/PRISM-UTCodeCamp2008.zip Note that you’ll need VS2008 SP1 with...(read more)

Composite Silverlight 2.0 Application Library Updated to RTW

Joe's Blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:46:00 GMT

I’ve updated my demo of the Composite Silverlight Library I built to work with Silverlight RTW. The P&P group has plans to ship the next version of the PRISM library (PRISM 2.0) that supports Silverlight, so I’ve started to use their bits instead...(read more)

Building a Silverlight ComboBox Using Attached Behaviors

Joe's Blog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:46:40 GMT

I recently needed to use a ComboBox in an application I was writing. Because there is no built-in ComboBox in Silverlight I decided to explore building one using attached behaviors . If you’re not familiar with this design pattern, check out...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released

Joe's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:19:00 GMT

Today Microsoft made Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) available for download . I was able to participate in a case study done on SP1 with Microsoft , Misys , and Veracity Solutions specifically using ADO.NET Data Services and the Entity Framework...(read more)

Composite Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 Application Library

Joe's Blog — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:25:00 GMT

Lately I’ve been working with Composite WPF and Silverlight applications at Veracity Solutions . I spent a few hours over the weekend converting the Composite WPF Application Library to Silverlight. Tonight I finished porting one of the QuickStarts to...(read more)

Building Custom Template-able WPF Controls

Joe's Blog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:08:40 GMT

Building custom controls in WPF can provide you with lots of flexibility. It allows you to entirely separate the behavior of the control from the look of the control. This is the premise behind most of what WPF offers. In this post I...(read more)

WPF Interoperability with Windows Forms and Office 2007

Joe's Blog — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:15:00 GMT

Keith encountered some interesting behavior while trying to build a Custom Task Pane hosting a WPF control in VSTO to use in Excel. (See my post on " Using WPF With VSTO & Office 2007 "). "I click the search textbox and it appears to...(read more)

Screencast: Building Interoperable Services using WSIT and WCF 3.0

Joe's Blog — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:46:27 GMT

In this screencast I demonstrate how to build a secure, interoperable service using WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technologies) and WCF 3.0 (Windows Communication Foundation). This screencast uses certificates to secure a business to business scenario...(read more)

Binding to a DataSet in XAML

Joe's Blog — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:11:59 GMT

At first glance binding a control (such as a ListBox) to a DataSet in XAML may not be apparent. However all you need to remember is that the column names in a DataSet work very similar to the property names on plain CLR objects. The trick is where you...(read more)

Using WPF With VSTO & Office 2007

Joe's Blog — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:31:36 GMT

Hosting Windows Forms controls in Office 2007 Custom Task Pane's is pretty simple, as shown in this MSDN article . I created a simple addin to display a list of image files in a given folder so that the user can double-click on the file name (in a...(read more)

Querying Excel Files Using ADO.NET

Joe's Blog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:30:09 GMT

Recently I needed to query an excel file and import that data into a database. I could not immediately recall how to accomplish this, so with a bit of searching I found the connection settings that I needed. Bellow is a code snippet that can be used to...(read more)