Jeremy Likness' Blog

MVVM with MEF in Silverlight Video Tutorial Part 2: Plugins and Metadata

C#er : IMage — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:03 GMT

In the first part of this series, I demonstrated a very simple project that used MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) along with the Managed Extensibility Framework to produce a simple screen that toggled between a square and a circle. In this next video, I am...(read more)

MVVM with MEF in Silverlight: Video Tutorial

C#er : IMage — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:02:00 GMT

This is a video tutorial to introduce beginners to how to use both MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) with Silverlight (should work for versions 3 and 4). Of course, some "veterans" may want to watch as well in case...(read more)

Silverlight Line of Business Applications

C#er : IMage — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:46:00 GMT

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of presenting a talk entitled, "Silverlight Line of Business Applications" at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup Group . This talk focused on several aspects of building line of business applications, ranging from the...(read more)

Animations and View Models: IAnimationDelegate

C#er : IMage — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:33:02 GMT

We often trip over ourselves trying to minimize code behind and abstract behaviors in the UI from the models, etc. This is important for clean separation, but sometimes behaviors may add too much abstraction. The real fact is many applications require...(read more)

MEF instead of PRISM for Silverlight 3 Part 2 of 2: Region Management

C#er : IMage — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:24:01 GMT

In my last post , I showed you how to dynamically load modules on demand using the latest MEF release in Silverlight 3. This post, I will take you through managing regions with MEF. This will enable us to have a 100% MEF-based solution in Silverlight...(read more)

MEF instead of PRISM for Silverlight 3 Part 1 of 2: Dynamic Module Loading

C#er : IMage — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:27:05 GMT

Recently I've been having lots of conversations about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) , the Composite Application Library (CAL or PRISM) , and how they relate. One point of confusion that many people has comes when they try to force the two...(read more)

Vancouver Olympics - How'd We Do That?

C#er : IMage — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:35:02 GMT

The Silverlight team recently posted a blog entry entitled " Vancouver Olympics - How'd we do That? " in which they detailed the massive effort across multiple partners to pull together the on-line solution for streaming HD videos, both live and on demand....(read more)

Top 10 Silverlight Myths and the Facts to Bust Them

C#er : IMage — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:20:00 GMT

Silverlight is a client side plug-in based technology that has been in production since late 2007. I've been a web developer for well over a decade now, and recently have focused almost exclusively on Silverlight since version 3.0 was released. It astounds...(read more)

A Fluent RSS Reader for Silverlight Part 2: NDepends on What you Need

C#er : IMage — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:59:01 GMT

NDepend is a product that analyzes large code bases and provides information about dependencies, complexity of code, best practices, and more. While designed to help manage large code bases, it also works well as a "reality check" as you are developing...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Series (Formerly called Windows Mobile 7)

C#er : IMage — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:42:02 GMT

There has been a lot of buzz around Microsoft's latest mobile phone operating system. I hope to be involved with this product as much as possible and will blog the detals that I can as they are made available. While the buzz has referred to this as "Windows...(read more)

A Fluent RSS Reader for Silverlight Part 1: Proof of Concept

C#er : IMage — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:53:04 GMT

One of the most common examples to help learn a language or framework is an RSS Reader. This is an ideal mini-project because it includes networking, parsing XML, and binding to data elements such as lists. I wanted to provide an example that shows some...(read more)

Using Moq with Silverlight for Advanced Unit Tests

C#er : IMage — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:10:00 GMT

Moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. You can learn more about Moq on their website . There is a distribution for Silverlight, and in this post I'll focus...(read more)

Programmatically Accessing the Live Smooth Streaming API

C#er : IMage — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:35:04 GMT

Live Smooth Streaming is a Microsoft technology that allows you to take a live, encoded, incoming video stream and rebroadcast it using Smooth Streaming technology. This technology multicasts the video stream in segments of varying bandwidths. This can...(read more)

Introduction to Debugging Silverlight Applications with WinDbg

C#er : IMage — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:04:00 GMT

I've had a few users ask me about finding memory leaks and understanding what happens with references in Silverlight. One very powerful tool to use when debugging Silverlight applications is the Windows Debugging Tools. You can download the 32-bit (x86)...(read more)

Simple Dialog Service in Silverlight

C#er : IMage — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:34:04 GMT

I noticed on the forums there are a lot of users not comfortable with asynchronous programming who struggle a bit in Silverlight with getting their arms around the concept of a dialog box. In other environments, you can simply shoot out a dialog, wait...(read more)