November 2008 - Posts

Mediator design pattern in Silverlight
I've recently published a code sample showing how to implement a Mediator design pattern in Silverlight 2. In my implementation three loosely coupled Silverlight applications are hosted on the same page and communicate with each other by raising the events Read More...
The future of model-driven development on Microsoft platform
"Oslo" is new modeling framework that is destined to become a centerpiece of modern model-driven development on Microsoft platform. It was officially announced and described in details at PDC2008 and received almost as much attention as Azure Services Read More...
Posted 14 November 08 08:56 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Resource sharing in Silverlight 2 : workaround
Resource sharing in Silverlight 2 isn't as easy as in WPF - it only works for certain resources such as brushes, and that's not goint to change in Silverlight 3 either. For example, if you want to reuse geometry paths you will get an error: <UserControl Read More...
Posted 08 November 08 08:13 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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My pet project: Community Project Management
The idea behind Community Project Management (CPM) is pretty simple - people go online when they have a problem and want to get others' help; complexity of the problem may be so high that normally it would require a big project and a lot of people to Read More...
PDC 2008 Mini-report
I thought I'd share my impressions from PDC 2008 where I was both working and attending sessions. It was interesting how secretive everyone was until the very announcement day (all client stuff including Win7 was not even talked about until Day 2 of the Read More...

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