January 2010 Entries

UI Patterns tutorials. MVP, MVVM and Composite app with WPF.

I got a lot of e-mails from my readers (I am very happy for that) where they claim the fact that It’s pretty hard to follow my tutorials because the actual version of SubText (my blog engine) doesn’t allow any search. Unfortunately until the new version of SubText will be released, and I know it will include a search engine, there is no way to help you. For this reason I am writing this post, that I will keep up to date constantly, with a list of available tutorials regarding the UI patterns. Please forgive me if...

Build enterprise application with WPF, Prism and WCF. Tutorial 07.

Update: source code and documentation are now available on CodePlex at this address: http://prismtutorial.codeplex.com/ Design of a Rich Interface using WPF. WPF is a very powerful language and allows you to do everything you want. The only problem is that Microsoft didn’t release yet a rich toolkit with all the controls we need and the XAML is not easy to learn. Before starting to build a UI, usually, I follow these 3 fundamental steps. 1. Main layout of my application (MDI, Tab, Ribbon …) 2. Style of my application (Custom,...