One of the things that bugs me about C# MVVM development is how important ICommands are, yet no standard/reference implementation is provided in the BCL. It’s practically a rite of passage for C# devs to write a half-assed, fragile, and … Continue reading
I’ve been doing MVVM & XAML development for awhile now, and over time I’ve identified a couple of pain points – things that bug me, pet peeves, code smells – that are prevalent with MVVM development. So I thought i’d … Continue reading
Wiring up Commands in MVVM apps is painful, because you’ll often have 4 discrete blocks of code relating to a single command: The Command property on the ViewModel A Func<bool> or Predicate<T> which is referenced by Command.CanExecute An Action or … Continue reading
If you’re doing any significant amount of MVVM / XAML work, then I hope you’ll find these Visual Studio snippets useful. This first snippet creates a backing field, a property with a simple getter, and a setter that also calls … Continue reading
To paraphrase a saying, Some people have a problem, and immediately think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions!” – Now they have 2 problems. Regular expressions are powerful, but their complexity is exponentially proportional to what you need to do … Continue reading
It’s time I entered the modern era of blogging, so i’m migrating everything over from my old CommunityServer 2007 site to an Azure-hosted wordpress site. I began playing around with Azure thanks to my new job at Applied Information Sciences, … Continue reading
There’s pros and cons for having a tightly-controlled marketplace which requires app certification. The main advantage is that you have a better ratio of higher-quality, non-malware apps in the marketplace. The main disadvantage is that the certification process … Continue reading
I’ve been doing some form of application development for at least the past 10 years, and it quickly became apparent to me that in order to maintain your sanity, you need to have some sort of overarching design pattern. Like … Continue reading
This was bugging me for awhile, but it took me until now to get around to fixing it. I had an issue with forms with text boxes near the bottom, and when the SIP (on-screen keyboard) is shown, then it … Continue reading
If you’ve ever done excel web parts in sharepoint, you know that most of the time they turn out ugly, due to the fact that they’re rendered in an iframe and therefore the browser doesn’t resize the container to fit … Continue reading