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MEF for Loading themes/resourceDictionaries
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:37:00 GMT
Hmm... One more acronym to remember :)..
"The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed. If you are building extensible applications, extensible frameworks and application extensions, then MEF is for you." - MEF Site
MEF is a relatively new project which is still in development (alpha release) and looks very promising
Was catching up with the blogs and articles online and Rudi's post of the use of MEF for loading themes caught my eye... Nice good read... Take a peek :)
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WPF Test Helper Library
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:21:00 GMT
Testing your application is a critical part of the development lifecycle. However, as part of testing we often reinvent the wheel when it comes to helpers. How many of you out there have written file, input, and so forth helper classes.
We realized this and decided to put out an open source project that delivers quality helper classes that would work out of the box. We have started out with a small set of API's for now but plan to expand it further. Currently we support the following helpers
Commandline parsing API
Input API
UIA Utility API
Visual Verification API
WPF Dispatcher
Where do you get it: http://www.codeplex.com/TestApi
You also get documentation of the APIs and a sample use of the the API's as well.
Now that its released, its your turn to try it out and send us feedback. :)
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Translation bot for Messenger
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:48:00 GMT
Did you know about it. I tried it out today and it works pretty well. All you need to do is add mtbot@hotmail.com as one of your contacts. Start the conversation with the bot and it asks for the source and target language and from then on you have a translator bot doing the translation.
Current languages supported:
English to/from:
Arabic
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian (RUS->ENU only)
Spanish
Chinese Simplified <-> Chinese Traditional
For more info click here
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Testing WPF apps using NUnit
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:55:00 GMT
Needless to say I use VSTS for testing purposes. However, quite a lot of people use NUnit for testing. So it was a good read for me when I came across Sacha's post on NUnit and WPF testing. So if you are using NUnit, do take a peek :)
Other related posts:
http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/wpf-unit-testing/
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/UnitTestDispatcherTimer.aspx
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SilverLight Chart Controls running on WPF
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:32:00 GMT
In his recent blog post, Jaime took a stab at running the charting controls in the SilverLight ToolKit CTP on WPF.. Now thats awesome, aint it? Jaime also has the updated source code posted - Click here
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New WPF Controls: Ribbon/Calendar/DatePicker/VSM
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:06:00 GMT
Now you asked for more controls and you got it!! We have got walkthroughs for the following features:
WPF Toolkit: DataGrid Feature Walkthrough New!
WPF Toolkit: Visual State Manager Overview New!
Ribbon Feature Walkthrough New!
WPF Toolkit: DatePicker and Calendar Walkthrough New!
And to whet your appetite, heres some screenshots:
So where do you download it: http://www.codeplex.com/wpf
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WPF sources/symbol files for 3.5 SP1
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:47:00 GMT
Today the debug symbols and sources for WPF 3.5 SP1 were pushed online for download through VS2008.
Steps for configuring VS to make use of the symbols and sources are located at : http://referencesource.microsoft.com/serversetup.aspx
To read the RSCC post, click here
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Tool: Crack.NET
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:58:00 GMT
Josh has just published the tool he's been working on - CRACK.NET. Its a combo of Snoop and Mole and its pretty awesome. "Crack.NET allows you to “walk” the managed heap of another .NET application, inspect all kinds of values on objects, and even manipulate those objects via IronPython scripts"
You can read more about it from here
Documentation : http://joshsmithonwpf.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cracknet-article1.doc
Link: http://www.codeplex.com/cracknetproject
Download (Binaries/code): http://www.codeplex.com/cracknetproject/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=18629
Some snapshots:
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XAML to PNG with server-side WPF
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:46:00 GMT
Y'day I just read an interesting post of rendering xaml files with Server side WPF logic.. Got time.. take a look at Lurent's post here
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Xaml Coding guidelines
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:00 GMT
While we have comes across a number of Coding guidelines, there is hardly any guidance wrt writing Xaml. Recently, I was pointed to Paul Stovell's post on Xaml coding guidelines and it is indeed an interesting post. Its a pretty nice list of Xaml coding guidelines. Take a look
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