Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 3

It’s time to go on with this series, at this point we know the basic principles of MVVM and we have a set of base classes and interfaces we can use. We need to put it in action and see how we can implement the View and the ViewModel and how we can ti


Silverlight, M-V-VM … and IoC – part 2

In the previous post I’ve presented a very fast introduction of what MVVM is and I’ve defined the two basic interfaces for the view and the viewmodel; I’m not going to implement a ‘pure’ version of the pattern itself because I consider a pattern just


Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 1

Speaking of my previous post about build and IoC-enabled Silverlight Navigation framework a couple of friends of mine asked me mode details about how I implemented the MVVM pattern for a line of business application. Model-View-ViewModel is a very s


Silverlight Navigation Framework: resolve the pages using an IoC container

Silverlight 3 introduced to us a good navigation framework: you could combine Frames and UriMapper objects to change portion of your page (or the entire page) on the fly allowing you to navigate to different section of your application. There are ple


Ready for the 14th DotNetMarche Workshop? IoC, DI, AOP and related techniques = lot of fun for all

On April 16 in Italy at Castelfidardo (Marche) it will take place the next DotNetMarche workshop, based on the requests and the feedback we had on our previous works, we’ve decided to focus on showing some techniques and ‘best practice’ you can use w


Unity: WCF service resolution container extension

In one of my previous posts I demonstrated how you can build a Castle Windsor facility to create WCF Proxy classes given the interface of the service (Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility). For my WPF/Silverlight application framewor...


Structura (Alpha version) a Silverlight/WPF Line of Business Application Framework

Here’s the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an applic...


Silverlight, Pluggable Architectures, Composite Applications and future plans…

The new project my small company is working on is quite interesting…since this will be our first ‘real’ application developed in .NET 3.5 we evaluated the possibility to develop the whole application as a web application due to the new possibil...