Christopher Bennage

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• Building a WPF Application: Part 1

  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, it has compilation... Posted Jul 22 2008, 07:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 0

  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 , but those where... Posted Jul 20 2008, 11:18 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 7 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 4 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 6 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, control templates, data binding, styles

• Styling Separators in WPF

  Separators are the little tiddly-bits that, um, separate items in a menu or tool bar. The intention is to divide the items on the menu or toolbar into logical groups. Separators are controls, but they don't have any real behavior. One of our current... Posted Jun 19 2008, 11:37 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Tips & Tricks

• Identifying Control Templates Parts in WPF

  I'm currently writing the chapter about control templates in our WPF book , and I wanted to include a list of all of the named parts that are hidden away in the dark recesses of the various controls. Before I even started googling, I had an idea that... Posted Mar 09 2008, 09:28 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Tips & Tricks, C#

• XAML Only WPF Example (Font Viewer)

  The very first application I attempted to write in WPF was a utility to help me with choosing fonts. I'm a developer who has one foot in the designer world, and I am always looking for just the right font. I think that was about 2 years ago, and I... Posted Feb 03 2008, 01:19 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, fun

• Beatriz Costa: Debugging WPF Binding

  If you are WPF developer and you are not familiar with Costa's blog , you should really check it out. Lots and lots of good posts about data binding in WPF. The most recent post is about debugging data binding, which has been a personal pain point... Posted Jan 28 2008, 11:21 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: DataBinding, WPF, Tips & Tricks

• REMIX DAY 1

  Despite the fact that I got off to a miserable start (walking along the Charles, rain soaked and a bit lost) today was a blast. I got to hear Rockford Lhotka (of CSLA fame) along with Anthony Handley describe their recent experiences with WPF. This was... Posted Oct 08 2007, 11:42 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: WPF, XNA, Silverlight, Musings

• MVC, Desktop Clients, & WPF

  I've spent the majority of my career as a Web developer, and I've only recently (with the discovery of MonoRail) really felt good about it. I mean to say, that a true MVC framework facilitates simple and elegant Web development, whereas in the past (with... Posted Apr 11 2007, 11:41 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns, WPF, .NET 3.0

• Game Programming with .NET 3.0

  Introduction Rob Eisenberg and I are writing a game in .NET 3.0. We entered the game into Microsoft Code Master Challenge and we made the semi-finals. Today we had to make a 20 minute online presentation to a panel of judges using Microsoft's new Live... Posted Nov 09 2006, 04:30 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Game Development, .NET 3.0