Paul Stovell says…

These are my thoughts about drop 03-25-2008 of Prism, patterns & practices’ composite WPF application guidance. I understand that this is only a preview release, and it is likely the code will change in the future, rendering these thoughts obsolete.
Before I get into the code, I want to prefix this post with thoughts on […]

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Windows Presentation Foundation has copped a lot of criticism over designer support in the past year, and from my experiences with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, I don’t expect that will change. Even as it stabilizes, I don’t see the current incarnation of the designer actually making developers more productive.
I believe that WPF does […]

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Update: this bug is no where near as bad as I first suspected. I am instead going to supercede this post with a post about event handlers.
Update: I have reported this bug to MSDN Connect here. If you are a WPF developer please vote, as I can virtually guarantee this will affect your […]

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A number of people that I’ve spoken to about Windows Presentation Foundation have asked about coding standards, guidelines and best practices for working with it and XAML. Whilst WPF is still a relatively new platform, and it will take time for real standards to emerge, I thought I would have a go at making a […]

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Or, “Why you should replace your entire custom-written object-oriented domain model with the WPF Visual Tree”
In his book Domain Driven Design, author Eric Evans discusses a number of ideas that should be used in domain modelling. Chief among these are three important concepts, which I’ll summarize here, though if you haven’t read Eric’s […]

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