WPF Client Development

One of the many announcements made at the PDC was that Visual Studio 10 will be built on top of WPF. In addition, VS will be using MEF as an extensibility mechanism. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain what MEF is all about. The Managed Extensibility Read More...

In case you haven't heard, the .Net FX 3.5 Service Pack 1 and VS 2008 Service Pack 1 have been released! The VS 2008 Express Edition with SP1 is also available here . In addition to providing bug fixes, the update also includes a number of new WPF features. Read More...

If you are trying to write an application in WPF that separates the UI from the underlying business logic (otherwise known as Model-View patterns), you may have noticed that some of the features in WPF don't always make that easy. Commands are an example Read More...

It's been a while since my last post, so I figured I'd write something I just recently had to work on: user settings. In many client applications, you quickly run into the need to store application or user settings. There are a few options on how to do Read More...