This is the seventh video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, we added a new Contacts module to the application. We went through the necessary steps to add this module to both the Silverlight and the WPF applications. We created a [...]
Continue Reading »Building IG Outlook Part 7 – Adding the Contacts Module
This is the seventh video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, we added a new Contacts module to the application. We went through the necessary steps to add this module to both the Silverlight and the WPF applications. We created a [...]
Building IG Outlook Part 6 – Adding Ribbon Tabs to View Navigation
This is the sixth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video we added the support for injecting ribbon tabs into the XamRibbon control for different views. As a View is injected, it’s corresponding ribbon tabs are injected as well. When a [...]
Building IG Outlook Part 5–Implementing Navigation and MVVM
This is the fifth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, we implemented our navigation using the Prism navigation APIs as well as some navigation objects we created to provide our navigation path. We talked a little about INavigationAware interface, IConfirmNavigationRequest [...]
Samuel Englard – 3D != Disagreeable && Distressing && Dour (3D in XAML)
While in normal day to day applications 3D would be overkill and bad UX, there are some applications that 3D can look nice in, be helpful, or be the entire point of the application! Historically 3D was done using a library like DirectX or OpenGL and very rarely was it not done in C++. Starting [...]
Victor Gaudioso Final Tribute
Expression Blend MVP Victor Gaudioso was an energetic, enthusiastic developer and designer known for his tireless hard work, devotion to teaching both developers and designers to work together and a great passion for the community. Victor died on Monday, April 2nd in Northridge, California. Victor is survived by his wife, Shay, and his three kids, [...]
Pete Brown – Windows 8 XAML for Silverlight/WPF Developers
Windows 8 Metro style XAML apps represent the newest member of the .NET/XAML family that includes WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and more. In this episode, we join Pete Brown, XAML guy at Microsoft, for a brief introduction to Metro style apps with a particular focus on what may be new or different for people coming [...]
