Articles filed in category 'DevNet - WPF'

  • CODE Framework: Building Productive, Powerful, and Reusable WPF (XAML) UIs with the CODE Framework
    In a prior installment of this series of articles about CODE Framework (“CODE Framework: Writing MVVM/MVC WPF Applications”, Jan/Feb 2012), I discussed how to use the WPF features of CODE Framework to create rich client applications in a highly productive and structured fashion reminiscent of creating ASP.NET MVC applications, although with WPF MVVM concepts applied. In this article, I will dive deeper into the subject and discuss the unique benefits of the CODE Framewor...See More
  • CODE Framework: Building Services and SOA Business Layers
    In the last issue of CODE Magazine, we took a look at CODE Framework’s WPF features. This time, we are going to look at a completely different area of the framework: Creating business logic and middle tiers as SOA services. SOA is the cornerstone of many modern applications, creating systems that are more maintainable, flexible, and suitable for a wide range of scenarios, ranging from Windows to Web and Mobile scenarios using a wide variety of technologies, and outperfor...See More
  • CODE Framework: WPF Standard Themes
    Markus Egger surveys CODE Framework’s WPF standard themes, arguing that developers can rapidly build visually consistent, flexible applications by using ready-made themes rather than crafting UI from scratch. He inventories themes (Battleship, Metro, Workplace, Vapor, Geek) and highlights their layout automation, dynamic theme switching, and shared features like automatic view layouts, data templates, notifications, and printing. Through a sample magazine manager, he dem...See More
  • CODE Framework: Writing MVVM/MVC WPF Applications
    The CODE Framework is an open-source application framework by the makers of CODE Magazine. It is entirely free of charge. It covers a wide range of features that can be applied altogether or individually in an À la carte fashion. All of these features revolve around a single concept: Building advanced business applications in a productive and maintainable fashion while maintaining great application architecture. In this article, we are focusing on a subset of the CODE Fr...See More
  • What’s New in CODE Framework in 2014
    There are a bunch of hot new tools in CODE Framework that you’ll want to explore, including a new theme, new View Actions, List improvements, a Flow Form layout, support for new versions of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, and enhancements to the View Visualizer.
  • XAML Magic: Attached Properties
    XAML properties don’t always behave as you think they might. Markus explains how they work and shows you some nifty ways to use these powerful tools.