Yet another blog about WPF, Surface, SL, MVVM, NUI.... - Tag - Design pattern

Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:03:00 +0200

A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox. You can easily bind the selected item or the current items but when multi selection comes in the way, it becomes harder because the SelectedItems (with an 's' property is not available to binding). In this article we will discover an... Read Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:09:00 +0100

Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel. A list of all the article about creating a ViewModel is here.. Today we are going to see how to create dynamic proxies for our business objects. What are Dynamic proxies ? Readers in a hurry can directly jump to the third part "An implementation". Proxies are a Desing Pattern... Read MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n)

MVVM - Creating ViewModel tutorial

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:58:00 +0100

MVVM - Creating ViewModel is a serie of blogposts that talk in details about various ways to create a ViewModel to use it with the MVVM pattern. You often do not create the business object used by the application which are created by another team and that these objects are not ready for binding. So you must find a solution to create an object... Read MVVM - Creating ViewModel tutorial

MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:00 +0100

Synopsis The ribbon controls - introduced by office 2007 -are available for free on the Microsoft Office web site (French users should set the language to "english" to access the ressources). They can leverage the user's experience of your application and are pretty simple to use. When I wanted to add them into one of my application I realized... Read MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

MVVM : How to keep collections of ViewModel and Model in sync

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0100

As pointed out in this post collections of the ViewModels and the models are not sync. This is because we do not access directly to the model but to an ObservableCollection(in the viewModel) which contains the object of the original collection(in the model) and that these two collections are not the same... As pointed out in the comments on... Read MVVM : How to keep collections of ViewModel and Model in sync

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : use XAML Power Toys (solution 2 of n).

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:24:00 +0100

Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel. A list of all the article about creating a ViewModel is here.. Today we are going to discover a tool which can help us to create the ViewModel. XAML Power Toys : add-in for VisualStudio XAML Power Toys is an extremly useful add-in(build by Karl SHIFFLET) for VisualStudio that... Read MVVM - Creating ViewModel : use XAML Power Toys (solution 2 of n).

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : wrap your business object (solution 1 of n).

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:06:00 +0100

Intro When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel. The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. To be ready for the binding the most used solution is to implement INotifyPropertyChanged and to fire events fo... Read MVVM - Creating ViewModel : wrap your business object (solution 1 of n).

Use AttachedProperties to add behaviors to the components (Ramora pattern)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:47:00 +0100

The problem In WPF you expect your components/controls to behave exactly as you want to.... but this not always the case. For example : why does this combobox not execute a command when I change the selection or more often why this textbox does not execute a command when I press the Enter (return) key ? This problem often occurs when you use... Read Use AttachedProperties to add behaviors to the components (Ramora pattern)