Christopher Bennage

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• Talks in December

  12.06 @ Tampa Code Code Expect lots of good content at this code camp. My session description is... An Introduction to WPF - A session for those who would like to know what WPF is all about. We’ll cover the basic concepts of WPF, discuss where the technology... Posted Nov 17 2008, 01:47 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: WPF, Presentations

• Unit Testing Change Notification

  In WPF work, it is very common to work with implementations of INotifyPropertyChanged . We need support for change notification in order to bind to the UI, and this interface is frequently the best approach. This means I have lots of properties that look... Posted Nov 13 2008, 03:43 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, TDD, C#, lambdas

• Building a WPF Application: Part 5

  ChumChase Table of Contents About 5pm today I was burnt-out from some difficult work on a particular client's project. Our last four projects have all been WPF with an emphasis on UI and UX. Fortunately, most of these were green field project, but... Posted Nov 13 2008, 12:58 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: DataBinding, WPF, data binding, ChumChase, data templates

• Building a WPF Application: Part 4

  Table of Contents Since my last post on building ChumChase, I've had a couple of projects that have changed my thinking just a bit about how to architect a WPF application. When I reviewed the code for ChumChase (in order to continue this series)... Posted Nov 07 2008, 10:06 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, Best Practices, ChumChase

• The Upcoming NHibernate Profiler

  Rob and I have had the fantastic opportunity to contribute to Ayende's NHibernate Profiler . It's somewhat analogous to SQL Profiler, and yet—oh, so much more. I'm really excited about this tool, not just because it has afforded an opportunity... Posted Nov 04 2008, 11:09 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, WPF, NHibernate

• Good WPF Blog Link

  Rudi Grobler has had a number of good (and deliciously short) posts on WPF lately. I found the tips on using Blend particularly useful. (If you are a WPF developer and you are not familiar with Blend, you really ought to be.) He's also been exploring... Posted Oct 31 2008, 09:03 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WPF

• Navigating Xaml Resources with ReSharper

  Most of our WPF projects end up with a lot of xaml resources. I do my best to try to keep them organized and easy to navigate. In many ways though, I am still learning . I often have a resource dictionary containing all of my default styles for a given... Posted Oct 27 2008, 04:04 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: WPF, Tips & Tricks, ReSharper

• Tricksy Dispatcher & Running Tests in TDD.NET

  Updated 11/07/2008 I recently ran into an interesting situation. I had an ObservableCollection bound to my UI in WPF, and I needed to updated this collection on something other than the UI thread. In other words, I was adding items to a UI-bound collection... Posted Oct 23 2008, 11:42 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, TDD, Threading

• Building a WPF Application: Part 3

  Table of Contents Application Architecture I'm going to back up and bit discuss my overall approach to structuring this WPF project. So far the solution consists of four projects: ChumChase is the actual WPF project. FriendFeed is the official .NET... Posted Aug 20 2008, 12:28 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 2

  Table of Contents So let's get back to this whole building a WPF application thing. A number of things went down since my last post: I was out sick with a stomach bug for few days, my infant son caught the same bug and subsequently we spent a few... Posted Aug 16 2008, 09:34 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 1

  Table of Contents I actually meant to say in my last post that I had investigated the API options for FriendFeed and they have a C# wrapper already available here . It's packaged up in a single download with its Python and PHP counterparts. Unfortunately... Posted Jul 22 2008, 07:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 0

  Table of Contents In a rather indirect way, I was inspired by a commenter on one of Scott Hanselman's posts to begin a series that walks through building a WPF application from start to finish. We did this for four different applications in our book... Posted Jul 20 2008, 11:18 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, ChumChase

• Using Lambdas to get at properties

  This is a somewhat made-up scenario based on a recent project. My client has not given me permission to discuss the specifics of the application (yet), so I apologize for keeping it vague. I hope you don't give up before the payoff. The Problem Imagine... Posted Jul 16 2008, 08:36 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Featured, Tips & Tricks, C#, .NET 3.5, lambdas

• TemplateBinding: a bridge between styles and templates

  This is partially a follow-up to my last post contrasting control templates and styles. Like I mentioned before I've been working on an application that has required a custom theme. In addition to styling the standard controls like text boxes and... Posted Jul 04 2008, 12:30 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Featured, control templates, data binding, styles

• Contrasting Control Templates & Styles in WPF

  We've had a few projects that involved custom styling for many of the standard controls. At first, I found myself swimming in a sea of XAML and rather double-minded about where to put things. Now, an approach has begun to coalesce for me. When it... Posted Jun 27 2008, 01:54 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, control templates, data binding, styles