Last month (21st of July 2011) I spoke at the Bermuda NET Event “Migrating WinForm applications to WPF/Silverlight”. This has been for me the first NET Event in Bermuda but for sure it will not be the last one. We are planning to have a new event this autumn where we will touch other topics like: ALM, Parallels and more. Thanks to Alessio Bellisomi, the web developer that works in my company, I am able to share with you some nice pictures of the event and three short movie of the event. Unfortunately, for this event, we were not...

Last year in Bermuda we had a new born, a NET community. The community has been created by some locals companies to attract developers, architects and analyst; but also anybody passionate of development. You can check-out the web site here: http://www.dnug.bm/. This month I will have the opportunity to present my two books: Applied WPF in context (APRESS) Build enterprise application with WPF and MVVM (MS PRESS) and to talk about WPF/Silverlight. During this event I will explain what are...

After one week that my book about LOB applications has been published I started to receive some additional questions that I am trying to address in this post. First of all I want to thank all the guys and girls that are buying the book and all the people that are providing feedbacks for the book. I really appreciate. I want also to specify that the Microsoft book has not been released as a “Book about MVVM” but more as a “book to discover LOB and layered applications”. I believe that part of the misunderstanding as been caused by...

This post is an update for all the enquires I got about the source code for my MVVM book published few days ago. (Please follow this thread: MVVM book). The book was planned to be published for the first week of April 2011 but it was already published this week due to the high demand we received from the customers. Unfortunately the source code of the demo application is under polishing process in these days and it will be available next week. Please forgive me for this and stay tuned, I will update this post as soon...

(a.k.a. Buy one copy!) Finally I am excited and glad to let you know that my first book: “Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern” is out and available through the major IT books distributors like: www.amazon.com, kindle, www.oReilly.com and more. Distributors Please forgive me if I am missing some of my distributors but I do not have yet the full list. The book is available through the oReilly website at this address: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0790145309686/ in the following formats: PDF, EBOOK, KINDLE and PAPERBACK (hard copy); of course the hard...

A lot of things are going here, on my side I am publishing two books about WPF and more in general about MVVM and Prism; on another side someone pretty cool (Karl Shifflett) has just released a new way of delivering tutorials and lessons within the Visual Studio 2010 UI, the tool is called InTheBox. Finally, the team of Patterns and Practices is making progress on Prism and a new drop has been released on Codeplex. In The Box and Feature Builder InTheBox is a new way of delivering mentoring through the UI of Visual Studio 2010. The...

Update: source code and documentation are now available on CodePlex at this address: http://prismtutorial.codeplex.com/ In these series of articles I will show you how to build an enterprise application using the most recent Microsoft’s technologies like: WPF with PRISM for the UI, Entity Framework for the Data Layer and WCF for the persistence service. Specifications. We will build a 3 tiers application that will spread the responsibility through 3 different machines (virtually because the Visual Studio solution is only one). SQL Server It will...

With Microsoft WPF technology, a new pattern is born and is going to be called MVVM (Model View ViewModel). This pattern is an hybrid from the old MVC and the old MVP patterns. Why a new pattern for the presentation? First of all WPF technology is giving us a kind of technology that can completely change the approach to design and code the UI. With the VMMV we can completely design an agnostic UI that doesn’t know the Model we are going to pass to it. Recycle, I will show you in...

In these series of posts I want to show how easy is to work with Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 3 beta and the NET RIA Service. Prerequisites and tutorials. First of all we need to know what is NET RIA Service and how they can help us to write better business RIA applications. NOTE: Unfortunately NET RIA will NOT work with the beta1 preview of Visual Studio 2010 so I recommend to use them into VS 2008 SP1. Brad Adams and NET RIA Service overview has a very interesting post about the architecture of NET RIA...

I have an exiting news today. A couple of days ago, one of my friends David Silverlight asked me about a new project called Silverlight UserGroup Web Starter Kit. At the beginning I was afraid about the free time that I do not have but then I tough “this should be a good way to learn RIA services and EF in depth” … So here we go. This is the codeplex address: http://silverlightugstarter.codeplex.com/ and the project seems to be really cool, especially for the people that are going to work with me. Oh boy, finally I can...