Monthly Archives: January 2010

Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction A typical Silverlight application (or any application with a GUI) contains elements or controls like command buttons , menu items, text boxes etc. The user of the application … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Table of content

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

In a series of posts I would like to introduce our Fluent Silverlight framework and discuss the important concepts behind it and describe some implementation details. This post will be updated continuously as I am adding new posts to the … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – static reflection

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my last post about binding dependency properties of a Silverlight control to a view model I used LINQ expressions to define the binding. I have written in the … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my previous posts (here and here) I discussed how one can build a fluent API for the definition of objects. In the context of Fluent Silverlight these objects … Continue reading →

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Silverlight and styles

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

This post is the result of a couple of frustrating moments passed yesterday. In our application we use the date picker control of the Silverlight toolkit. Unfortunately this control does not work exactly as we would like to thus I … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction In my last post I showed how we  can implement a fluent API to help us construct instances of specific classes. When using a fluent API the code … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction Quite some time has passed since we published our Fluent Silverlight framework. In the mean time we have been very busy extending the framework and using it in … Continue reading →

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