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I am Paul Stovell, and I help customers to architect and develop applications on the Windows platform. I work for Readify, an Australian-based consulting company. I am a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development, and you'll often find me hanging out at user groups and conferences.

Recent Posts

Dec 30 2009
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Magellan Asynchronous Controllers

Using background threads to execute actions in Magellan.

Dec 22 2009
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Magellan with Windows Forms

Magellan doesn't support Windows Forms natively, but it's easy to add using a custom View Engine.

Dec 21 2009
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Magellan View Engines

View engines contain the logic to render Windows, Pages, Dialogs, and other forms of views from a ViewResult.

Dec 14 2009
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Magellan Exceptions

A discussion of exceptions that can be thrown by Magellan, common issues that can cause them, and suggestions for handling them.

Dec 12 2009
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Magellan Action Results

ActionResults are a Magellan feature that decouple the intent of the controller from the execution.

Dec 12 2009
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Magellan Transitions

Transitions allow you to play animations when navigating between pages. Magellan includes out-of-the-box support for transitions.

Dec 11 2009
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PaulStovell.com Visual Studio Colour Scheme

Ever wanted to make your IDE look like PaulStovell.com? I didn't think so. But if you did, you can download my official Visual Studio colour scheme.

Dec 8 2009
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Behind PaulStovell.com

A short look at how PaulStovell.com is hosted and some of the tools and services I use to power it.

Dec 7 2009
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Magellan and View Reuse

ActionFilters are a great mechanism for extending Magellan. Here we take a look at how they might be used to activate views that are already open rather than always creating a new view.

Dec 7 2009
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Magellan Action Filters

This page describes Action Filters, an MVC concept that has been ported to Magellan. They provide a useful means for implementing cross-cutting concerns in Magellan applications.

Nov 26 2009
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Magellan and WPF Page management woes

WPF navigation can be tricky. This page describes some of the issues I have had with it while building Magellan.

Nov 26 2009
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Opinions: View() or Window()/Page()?

Looking for opinions on a Magellan API change.

Nov 15 2009
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Magellan Installer

Introducing the brand new Magellan installer and project templates.

Nov 13 2009
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Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit

The MVM light toolkit by Laurent Bugnion is a useful framework for MVVM applications. This page shows how it can integrate with Magellan.

Nov 12 2009
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Magellan Controllers

As an MVC framework, Controllers have a pretty prominent position in Magellan. This page describes the ins and outs of controllers.

Nov 11 2009
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Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit

Microsoft provides a toolkit for building MVVM project in WPF. This page describes how Magellan and the MVVM toolkit can leverage each other.

Nov 10 2009
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Magellan and Composite WPF

Magellan and Composite WPF can work together to to build composite WPF applications using MVC.

Nov 9 2009
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Magellan and IOC/DI Containers

Modern .NET applications draw many benefits from using IOC containers. This page describes how Magellan can use IOC.

Nov 9 2009
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Magellan Quickstart

A short walkthrough to get you up and running with your first Magellan application.

Oct 25 2009
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Magellan Introduction

This page provides a very brief intoroduction to Magellan, an MVC framework for WPF.

Oct 9 2009
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Enforced Strings

Some deep thoughts about strings and assumptions in .NET applications

Oct 8 2009
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jQueryPad

jQueryPad is a useful little utility for prototyping HTML and JavaScript/jQuery code.

Oct 7 2009
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Sheldon

This is a sample application that shows how IronPython can be hosted within a WPF application.

Oct 2 2009
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Editable Collection Adapter for WPF

Handling large edits of data with undo functionality in WPF

Oct 2 2009
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DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding

What can you do with a timer, a MarkupExtension, and a bit of imagination?

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