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Silverlight DataGrid Current Item as Click.CommandParameter

Note: This applies to Prism v2 with Silverlight 3 Beta. So I've added a button into a column of my DataGrid, and I want to bind in the Click handler to my ViewModel, as well as pass the selected item into said handler. I'm not going to ...

Silverlight Templating: Bending Controls to Your Will

I'm building an forms-over-data application that needs to control edit access based on the user's role, and the active item's workflow status. Download Sample Code When building similar functionality in ASP.NET MVC applications, we've handled this scenario by having the server render a partial page, and based ...

Building Line-of-Business Apps with Silverlight 2.0: Part 1

While I've been playing around with Silverlight for a while now, the time has come to build something a little bigger with it. Here's the situation: I'm Converting an Access/SQL Server application over to use a Silverlight 2.0 front end with ADO.NET Data Services on the ...

Agile Workshop on June 26th in Denver

Just a quick note that Brian Noyle and I will give a one day Agile Project Management training workshop on Friday, June 26, 2009 in Denver, CO. This course will cover both project management practices and development/engineering practices. While we *talk* about developer tools & practices, this is not ...

GeoGeekTV: Today @ 4:00pm

Just a quick note that we'll be doing another edition of GeoGeekTV today at 4:00pm Mountain. We'll be talking about "Bing Enterprise Geo-webby mashup silliness" as well as Flex, Silverlight, the beer of the week, and anything else that comes up in the chat. Drop by UStream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/GeoGeekTV or just ...

When User Interfaces Fail: Expedia.com

While doing some hotel booking during my recent vacation I came across some usability issues which I thought I’d share with everyone as an example of an anti-pattern in interface design. For this trip we booked a vacation home in La Jolla California using Vacation Rental By Owner (VRBO.com) ...

Simple ASP.NET 301 Moved Permanently Redirector

I’ve been running DasBlog since I started blogging back in February 2005, and it had been good, but the time came to move on to something that required less hand-on work to keep current. Enter WordPress. You can read how the content migration went in a previoud post, but this ...

Speaking @ GIS Colorado Friday May 15th

Apparently there was a configuration issue with FeedBurner, and this was not aggregated - thus the repost. This Friday, May 15th, I'll be giving a talk titled "Building Great Apps for Your Maps" at the GIS Colorado (GISCO) Spring Quarterly Meeting. The meeting will be at the Boulder County Administration Building, 1325 ...

GeoGeekTV May 8th @ 4:00pm MT

Given that Twitter is apparently down right now, I'll opt to send out a notice that GeoGeekTV will be occuring at it's usual time 4:00pm MT today Friday May 8th. We're moving to what we hope will be a permanent home at UStream. I will be setting up a separate site ...

Speaking Tuesday at the Boulder GIS Developer Group

Just a note to readers in the Denver/Boulder area – I'll be speaking this Tuesday evening at the Boulder GIS Developer Group. Julie Kub, who runs the group, invited me to give my Dev Summit talks, so I’ll be doing a slightly re-mixed combination of “Designing for the GeoWeb” ...