http://csharpfeeds.com CSharpFeeds - All your C# feeds in one place. Back to: Magellan Home This guide will walk you through getting started with Magellan. You will need a copy of Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1. Project Setup Download the Magellan library. Unzip it to a known location. Create a new WPF Application project using Visual Studio 2008. Add references to Magellan.dll and System.Windows.Interactivity.dll from the ZIP file that you downloaded. Create the following folder structure: Create a model In the Views/Home fol http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-quickstart Paul Stovell Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:02:42 GMT Back to: Magellan Home The MVVM Light Toolkit is an MVVM framework by WPF MVP Laurent Bugnion, the author of Silverlight 2 Unleashed. It works well alongside Magellan and makes it easy to put behaviors behind views. The integration model with Magellan is quite similar to using the Microsoft MVVM toolkit. One difference is that the MVVM Light Toolkit typically uses resources to refer to the ViewModel, limiting the amount of code behind that is required. Since Magellan control http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-mvvm-light-toolkit Paul Stovell Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:13:39 GMT I don't know why I haven't blogged about this one before; this is the single most common incorrect bug report we get. That is, someone thinks they have found a bug in the compiler, but in fact the compiler is correct and their code is wrong. That's a terrible situation for everyone; we very much wish to design a language which does not have "gotcha" features like this. But I'm getting ahead of myself. What's the output of this fragment? var values = new List<int>() { 100, 110, http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/12/closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful.aspx Eric Lippert Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:50:00 GMT Back to: Magellan Home As an MVC framework, controllers are the most prominent object in Magellan. At their simplest, controllers are implemented as classes, and actions are implemented as methods on the class. Actions on a controller must be public methods, and must return ActionResult objects. Here is an example: public class CustomerController : Controller { public ActionResult Index() { Model = Customers.GetAll(); return View(); } public A http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-controllers Paul Stovell Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:11:38 GMT “I want static behavior between assemblies/libraries/packages but dynamic abilities within.” – JeffreyPalermo.com With C# 4.0, code within method can be dynamic because of the new dynamic keyword.  This is a short post expressing what I want out of C#. I recently listened to a great debate about the advantages and shortcomings of both dynamic and static languages, and the biggest pain of 100% dynamic languages is that when using a library, you really don’t know what is supports except if http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jeffreypalermo/~3/GKNchHZmcpw/ Jeffrey Palermo Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:21:00 GMT As a follow-up to some ASP.NET MVC comments by Dino Esposito, I want to provide my commentary on why the grassroots of the .Net developer community is so in love with ASP.NET MVC, even though Microsoft marketing isn’t really seeming to push it.  It’s odd, too, because with Entity Framework, the message from Microsoft is clear:  DataSets and Linq2Sql will still be supported. . . but . . . er. . .um, we recommend you start moving to Entity Framework. Car vs. Motorcycle? Irrelevant analo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jeffreypalermo/~3/xFrz-o8GZUE/ Jeffrey Palermo Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:09:06 GMT Back to: Magellan Home Magellan's MVC framework is designed to handle navigation between views. However, the views themselves, and how they are implemented, is outside of Magellan's concern. Views can be simple XAML pages, or they can be driven by an MVVM or MVP pattern, or any other way you might like. Microsoft provide a Visual Studio project template known as the MVVM Toolkit, which makes it easy to get started using the MVVM pattern. To use Magellan with the MVVM toolk http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-mvvm-toolkit Paul Stovell Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:38:49 GMT Back to: Magellan Home Magellan was designed to work with Composite WPF from day one. Composite WPF provides support for multiple modules, loosely coupled pub/sub eventing, and regions for sub-dividing zones in the UI. However, Composite WPF does not enforce any particular UI pattern - MVVM, MVP and MVC could all work. Magellan and Composite WPF can work well together to create a composite navigation-oriented application using the MVC pattern. Here are some examples: Compo http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-composite-wpf Paul Stovell Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:43 GMT That’s right, folks!  For those of your coming to Microsoft’s Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC), Party with Palermo is going to kick the week off right.  The conference starts on Tuesday, so Monday night, we are going to get down and party to the turntables of DJ Craig.  If you were at the Party with Palermo at Tech Ed,  you remember this DJ and how he had the uncanny ability to get folks like Ted Neward and Sara Ford dancing like it was 199. . . 2009! Here is t http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jeffreypalermo/~3/K8IQxKndhL8/ Jeffrey Palermo Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:55:55 GMT Three baseball umpires are having lunch together. The first umpire says "Well, a lot of them are balls, and a lot of them are strikes, but I always calls 'em as I sees 'em." The second umpire says "Hmph. I calls 'em as they are." The third umpire slowly looks at his two colleagues and declares "They ain't nothin' until I calls 'em." Those of you unfamiliar with the bizarre rules of baseball might need a brief primer. Suppose the pitcher throws a pitch and the batter swings and misses. Such a http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/09/three-umpires.aspx Eric Lippert Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:01:00 GMT