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Just Do It Part 1: 25 Steps

Brownie Points — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:57:42 GMT

The stars have aligned and I have enough impetus to Just Do It . On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the

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Nick Portelli — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:34:42 GMT

Good post. I'm still telling myself just effing do it and not doing it though. Personal Kanban, GTD and whatever are only effective if you are disciplined enough to do it. Otherwise, useless.

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re: IRepository and IUnitOfWork

Erik — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:35:24 GMT

Mike, you said something about posting a sample project a few months ago. Any update on that?

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re: MVVM Unleashed

william simons — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:17:42 GMT

I really wish that you would take this into a silverlight enterprise application and use either

a wcf ria class library or wcf data service library

and then you could look into prism. THe biggest problem with most authors is they never really challenge the audience beyond the first grade level. Please look for a opportunity for a enterprise book!!!

re: MVVM Unleashed

Mike Brown — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:18 GMT

Antony,

We're looking at Fourth Quarter of this year for publishing. Hopefully, you'll have a nice Christmas present for your team :)

re: MVVM Unleashed

Antony Joseph — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:42:49 GMT

Hi Mike,

Me along with my team are waiting for the same book.

Can I know around when I can expect to have this?

Thanks.

re: Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

David Burela — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:25:59 GMT

I tried to summarise the information coming out about the new Jupiter programming model

davidburela.wordpress.com/.../premature-cries-of-silverlight-wpf-skill-loss-windows-8-supports-all-programming-models

Quick Summary:

* Windows 8 supports applications being built in C# / XAML / VB.Net / C++ / HTML+JS.

* The new UI framework ‘Jupiter’ allows applications to be written in your language of choice. This is similar to how the .Net framework allowed people to code against the framework in their language of choice.

* Jupiter seems to be a ‘Next generation’ XAML based framework

re: Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

Mike Brown — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:11:54 GMT

@Eclipsoft Did you read the update...people make mistakes and I acknowledged it when "Ricky" corrected me.

That being said, there are three points that I was attempting to make (and I think I did):

1. Microsoft has invested a lot over the years in moving toward markup driven UI.

2. Legacy support has prevented them from fully embracing it. Virtualization presents itself as a chance to sever the ties that bind them.

3. WPF/Silverlight have a lot of traction within the ecosystem. Microsoft isn't about to throw that out the window. While there may be some tweaks to the framework, the skills will port for the most part.

re: Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

Eclipsoft — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:50:43 GMT

I'm afraid to say that, since you didn't understand that DirectX is used natively, and that concomitantly the GPU is used to render WPF, it takes much of the punch out of your article. You presented this mysterious DirectUI as doing what WPF has already been doing BOTH with User32 and GDI:

<There are still performance issues in WPF…there are performance issues in Silverlight on Windows Phone. This is because when you go far enough down it’s not turtles all the way. It’s still the same old stuff that Windows has been hobbled with since version 1. User and GDI.

Until now. Windows 8 introduces DirectUI. And with Direct UI the gauntlet has been thrown down.>

Every beginning WPF makes it clear that GDI/+ is completely abandoned by WPF, while User32 is abandoned for all rendering of controls (like the battleship gray button, all other controls), but still is in the picture for other issues. As MacDonald's WPF book says (p. 2):

"One component that’s still in the picture (***to a limited extent***) is User32. That’s because WPF still relies on User32 for certain services, such as ***handling and routing input and sorting out which application owns which portion of screen*** real estate. However, all the drawing is funneled through DirectX."

But nonetheless, I am still hopeful that DirectUI represents something great and even improved for WPF (like going native compilation?!), and many other points made here I hope are right in saying MS is fully embracing XAML. Best.

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re: Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

Mike Brown — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:08:55 GMT

You're right...I flubbed on some of my statements. Thanks for clarifying for me. I do remember now that DWM is not present on XP. I'll update and correct.

re: Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated!

Ricky — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:56:31 GMT

Notes: WPF does not sit on top of the desktop window manager (DWM). The DWM is a compositio nengine, not a desktop graphics engine. You can turn the DWM competley off and WPF applications will still work just fine. In fact, you can target XP (which has no DWM) with WPF.

WPF and Silverlight are not dependant on user and GDI the way you think they are. It really is turtles all the way down. The performance issues in WPF and Silverlight are not due to coupling with GDI and USer. Its more due to object mangment costs and how they render.

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