Last semester, at the University, along with other students (Alejandra Stamato, Gonzalo Zamudio and Manuel Soldini), we had to create a game similar to Guitar Hero for the Algorithms & Programming III subject. Being a University subject, it had some specific requirements (mostly related to model specification and the entities that needed to be included).... read more
A couple of weeks ago I decided to start a code kata using IronPython, with the objective of learning how C# and IronPython code could be integrated and used together. I had previously used Python (my favorite choice for University assignments), but this was my first try with the DLR version. (If you just can’t... read more
El Sábado 4 de Septiembre, junto a mis amigos Diego Poza y Matias Bonaventura, vamos a dar una charla en Codecamp Buenos Aires sobre patrones de presentación en WPF y Silverlight 4, enfocandonos principalmente en Model View ViewModel (también conocido como MVVM). Durante la charla vamos a mostrar las diferencias entre una aplicación que usa... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on July 2nd, 2010 5:36 pm under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Prism-v2.2, Silverlight 4, Training Kit, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
Over the last week, Matias and I took some time to work on something a Prism Training Kit. We figured out that was one of the things that would be useful to learn Prism. Therefore, we decided to create a set of Hands on Labs that cover the basic topics addressed by Prism (if you... read more
Disclaimer: This blog post will not provide any new information on Prism’s future, as it simply is a merger of blog posts, forum threads and similar. If you follow the team blogs actively, you will probably already be aware about this information. There have been lots of threads in the Prism forum with questions like... read more
This thread from the Prism forum presents the following question (this is not an actual quote but a summary): Are there any examples with multiple Shell windows, as the Prism documentation mentions? First I re-read this article from the Prism documentation so I could get in the same page as the user. I’m not going... read more
The holidays are over, happy new year everyone and I hope it is a good one for all of you. It’s time for the first post of the year, which continuing last year’s trend will deal with Prism. A couple of weeks ago this question in the Prism forum got Fer and I thinking how... read more
About a week ago in the Prism forum we got a question about an issue in the scenario displayed below. The Issue When the MainView was removed from the MainRegion, the RightOne and RightTwo regions were not removed from the RegionManager and the views were still being referenced by the region. We were able to... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on November 20th, 2009 6:26 pm under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 4 Beta, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
Most of you know that a Silverlight 4 Beta was released last Wednesday, after Scott Gu’s PDC keynote. If you are a Prism user, and if you are reading this there’s a high chance you are, you are probably wondering how this relates to p&p future plans. Well, Blaine has given us a brief idea... read more
Published by Damian Schenkelman on November 16th, 2009 9:55 am under Composite Application Guidance for WPF & SL, MVVM, Patterns & Practices, Prism-v2, Prism-v2.1, Silverlight, Silverlight 3, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, p&p
On a previous post in this series I talked about a possible approach to take when starting to learn Prism as a whole (the Tip numbering is resumed from the previous post). In this post I will get more specific and talk about one of the most used (if not the most used) pattern when... read more