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) I found it needlessly complicated in more than a few...

I'm giving a talk on TDD at our local UG tonight, and under the influence of some recent posts here on devlicio.us, I just finished reworking my presentation. This post is an outline for the first half of my presentation. The Problems Code has entropy. That is over time it deteriorates. At least...

Part 0: stating my intent Part 1: seams, patterns, tdd Part 2: testing styles and credentials Part 3: architecture and project structure Part 4: a change of direction Part 5: value converters

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 api I downloaded from here , and patched so that...

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 days in the hospital (he's fine now, it was nothing...

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, it has compilation errors. I fixed the errors...

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 , but those where targeted to demonstrate particular...

I've been asked about best practices and good design several times over the last few months. A few questions have been from students, or newcomers to .NET, and I have found their questions very insightful. They ask questions I remember asking myself. One good example was "I know I should separate...

I've been overloaded lately with my infant .NET consulting company, and I have to apologize for the lack of consistent posts. I just read a terse, but very insightful post from Sam Gentile. You'll need to dig into it and read the cross links, but it's a worth the while. Basically, he's covering the techniques...