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Sunday, October 09, 2011 4:31 AM

Slide Deck and Code Sample for St. Louis DoDN

Editor's note: I wrote this back in August, shortly after the STLDoDN but for some reason my blog decided not to make it public. This past weekend I spoke at the St. Louis Day of .NET , presenting a talk on MVVM. I was honored to actually have my...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:00 PM

How “Done” Is WPF?

Recently, Michael Neel ( @vinull on twitter) made an interesting statement on Twitter: I love WPF but it still feels only 50% implemented - Ex. why is there no built in support for closing a tab in the TabControl? It sparked off a long discussion on a...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:51 AM

Inspiration for MVVM Unleashed

There are a number of timeless books that you’ll hear mentioned in technology circles. They are respected as treasure troves of information for the software craftsman looking to hone his skill. I have a confession to make. While I have referenced these...
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Monday, December 20, 2010 12:00 PM

Why MVVM Unleashed?

As the year comes to a close, I’m taking the last two weeks off from my normal job as a consultant to enjoy time with my family, celebrate the holidays, relax and unwind, and get started on my book . In preparation for writing, I have been poring over...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:40 AM

IRepository<T> and IUnitOfWork

As I was going through my personal coding exercises, I stumbled across a refinement of my repository and unit of work implementations that allows for two things. My Repository is totally free of persistence concerns. I get effort free in memory persistence...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:21 PM

Intention Revealing Interfaces or Car.FuelInjectionSystem.FuelInjectionRate.Increase()

I was having a discussion with Josh Smith about my upcoming article in MSDN Magazine on enterprise patterns with RIA Services. It’s basically a deep-dive into the technology that goes beyond the Drag-n-Drop demos you’ve seen so far. Josh’s...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 1:11 PM

Service Locator Versus DI – A Clarification

Update: For some reason Community Server decided that it doesn't want to display the style for the code snippet nor the IFrame for the skydrive link. Here is the final file . Read on for explanation of what it is and what it does. Browsing though...
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