Unit Testing Silverlight Applications

I am starting a short series of posts on unit testing of Silverlight applications.  I will be using the following set of technologies.  Microsoft Silverlight Unit testing framework that ships with Silverlight tool kit Moq – mocking framework that supports Silverlight 4 StatLight – unit testing automation framework that will allow for unattended / automated …

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Implementing Double-Click In Silverlight DataGrid

As I was working on one of my presentations, I wanted to go to a detail from from query form by letting user double-click.  No standard Silverlight controls implement double-clicks, and this includes DataGrid.  So, naturally one would need to listen to click events and interpret clicks within a certain time to be a double-click.  …

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First Stab at Reactive Framework

Today I made an attempt to make some sense of Reactive Framework(Rx).  Rx allows developers to write queries against events.  I know, I had hard time wrapping my head around this concept as well.  I hope the example below will help. I downloaded and installed Rx extensions for Silverlight from the page above.  I created …

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ReMix Talk

As I posted previously, I talked at Atlanta ReMix 2010 conference past Saturday.  Entire event was a a success, we had over 200 people there.  We had great presenters and good topics.  My topic was “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web” You can download PowerPoint presentation here.  You can download …

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ElementName Binding Inside Silverlight DataGrid

If you ever used ComboBox inside a templated columns inside DataGrid in Silverlight, you probably encountered the following issue.  If you use ElementName to bind ItemsSource for a ComboBox in this situation, you will find that ElementName cannot be resolved.  Typically, you have to put your items source inside Resources collection on your use control, …

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Windows Phone 7 Database

I just uploaded and published new CodePlex project I have been working on.  It is an Isolated Storage based database for Windows Phone 7.  I converted my existing Silverlight database project I published a long time ago and adapted it to Windows Phone 7. It supports multiple strongly typed tables, basic Linq based operations, addition …

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ReMix 2010 in Atlanta

If you have not registered for this fine event I blogged about previously, you have a week left. You can register for it here: http://reMIXatlanta.org.  You can also check out the list of session that will be presented there. Yours truly will be presented a session there as well.  The title will be “Microsoft Silverlight …

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reMix Atlanta 2010

Mark your calendar and purchase your ticket now for Atlanta’s premiere Design & Developer Event THE WEB BELONGS TO US, AND MOBILE WILL BE NEXT. reMIX LOCATION Saturday May 8th 8:00AM-5:00PM Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center 246 Perimeter Center Pkwy NE Atlanta, Georgia 30346 Phone: 770-394-6500 reMIX Atlanta is the one-day conference for developers and designers …

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