DimeCasts.net just published my latest screen-cast titled: “Hello World, I am Win Phone 7″ I cover the basic of a File –> New Windows 7 Phone Application and talk about the emulator for a few minutes. Enjoy. Watch the Screen-Cast Note: I do not cover installing the tools, Peter Henry does a great job of…
Category Archives: Silverlight
Using Prisms (CompositeWPF) EventAggregator
Event Aggregator – What is it? The event aggregator in Prism is an implementation of the Event Aggregator pattern. Fowler explains the Event Aggregator pattern as follows: Channel events from multiple objects into a single object to simplify registration for clients. Microsoft also has a link for this pattern as well, its located here. Here’s…
Prism Drop 8 Breaking Changes
The Prism team dropped another version of Prism last Friday at the usual spot: www.codeplex.com/compositewpf . This is Drop 8 of their product. Breaking Change #1 – Cannot Find CompositeWpfEvent However, there is not note of a breaking change in this drop that is not noted in the release notes. The type “CompositeWpfEvent” has now…
Debugging Silverlight Tip
If you’re doing any kind of Silverlight work you’re bound to get “Error on page” in Internet Explorer. Here’s what I’m talking about. You fire up your app in the browser window and BLAM. Screen is empty and you get the “Error in page” error. Double click the error and you get an Internet Explorer…
XamlParserException – AG_E_PARSER_BAD_TYPE
Ohhhhh the dreaded XamlParserException. The exception message is not to helpful at all. In my instance I was working with Silverlight. Namely working with the Prism V2 Drop #5 from the Composite WPF team. Get the latest and read up the project here. I was loading the TreeView control into my view (Xaml) and when…
