As I was working on one of my personal learning projects, I encountered a small problem. The project was Prism based with multiple modules. I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such as styles. This approach works just fine by using merged dictionaries in …
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Today I would like to cover a specific use case that came up a few times in Silverlight applications I wrote. For example, I wand a user to enter some sensitive information, encrypt it in Silverlight client, transfer it over to the server, then decrypt it and perforation some operations on that data. First step …
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Today as I was working on a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2010, XAML Intellisense just stopped working for me. Quick internet search yielded no useful results, so I was to figure this out on my own. Just to test I created a brand new application, and Intellisense was fine there. Logical answer was that …
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In my last post I am going to cover the last two topics I set out to address. The first topic is UI testing. What unit test frameworks lack sometime is the actually UI testing. What I mean by that is for example, click on a button, then see what happens. In case of Silverlight, …
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Windows Phone 7 Developer tool beat has been released by Microsoft. You can download it here. Make sure to download and read release note available on the page above. Thanks.
In this post I will explore ability to mock various Silverlight classes in order to enable mocking in your unit tests. There is a variety of mocking frameworks available, but I will pick one for my testing – Moq. You can download the framework here, Once this is done, I need to add some references …
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In this post I will describe how to create asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight applications. First of all, I’d like to point out that any communication with a server component in Silverlight must be asynchronous. Reason being is that if communication was synchronous and the remote service was not responding, browser which host Silverlight application …
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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 …
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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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 …