Category Archives: Silverlight

Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 1

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

In this article I want to discuss the steps needed to instrument a Silverlight assembly such as that it can be profiled. To achieve this task I use Mono Cecil, a library from the Mono platform which is an open … Continue reading →

Also posted in How To, introduction, Mono, Mono Cecil, MSIL | 4 Comments

Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction In the last two posts I introduced Fluent Silverlight which is a new framework designed to offer a strongly typed alternative to the XAML based definition of Silverlight views and its “magic string” based data binding of properties of … Continue reading →

Also posted in commands, data binding, fluent Silverlight, lambda expressions | 23 Comments

Silverlight Beta 2 Released and what that means for the Testing Framework.

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Eric Hexter

ok..  So Silverlight Beta 2 was released on and it has some great new features. But what is the story about testing…? 1 Jeff Willcox blogged about a small change you will need to make in order to use the … Continue reading →

Also posted in jQuery, plugins | 16 Comments

Silverlight Testing – Part 2 – Making the test easier understand.

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Eric Hexter

Now that we have a working test that can make the proper assertions, the next step is to make the test easier to understand.  First, here is the existing test. The test is loaded with infrastructure code that helps execute … Continue reading →

Also posted in jQuery, validation | 11 Comments

Silverlight Testing – Part 1 – Testing the untested.

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Eric Hexter

The Silverlight testing framework was recently released and shows some great potential for being a first class application platform. For more information about the test framework see this post fromJeff Wilcox. To start off I choose to use a code … Continue reading →

Also posted in design, practices, refactoring | 11 Comments

Silverlight Testing framework bug – FrameworkElements are not visible on the TestSurface

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Eric Hexter

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Unit Testing,Test Framework Working with the Silverlight testing framework the last three weeks has been interesting.  I ran into a crazy intermittent bug which drove me made for about 2 hours.  The usercontrol that I was adding to … Continue reading →

Also posted in design, patterns, practices, SOLID | 7 Comments