Jaime Rodriguez : xaml

Programming differences between WPF and SIlverlight, a WHitePaper

jaimer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:46:06 GMT

Wintellect just posted a great 70 page white paper on codeplex about the “programming differences between WPF and Silverlight”.

I have not dissected it yet, but from a quick scan it looks very useful.
I will be printing it and dissecting it on my flight to the next (and last) WPF for LOB Tour stop: Chicago.

Please share feedback on the paper. Is it useful?? What is it missing?? Is it a fair assessment of the status on our continuum.

Design-time data in Expression Blend

jaimer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:20:30 GMT

Well- behaved, unobtrusive design-time data is essential for designers to create high-fidelity data templates and get a comprehensive view of the scene they are designing. If you agree, here is a must read on the common approaches to implementing design-time data inside blend (and Cider); the write-up covers:

The common ways to use ObjectDataProvider for design-time data. Pros & cons for each.
My favorite way to do design-time data via an Attached behavior..

The source is available here. The paper is here on HTML, XPS, and DOCX.

Let me know if I missed any thing..

XAML guidelines part 3

jaimer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:07:00 GMT

There were 3 goals to the XAML guidelines series:

Show that there is not a single right answer (that is why we interviewed multiple people, multiple projects)
Document common practices and previous experiences that worked.
Inspire others to share their own opinions and practices.

In order to accomplish parts 2 and 3, I have typed a few of my recommended best practices for any one starting new..

Since not every one will agree with my opinions so I am labeling this a draft, I would love for people to chime in with better suggestions and comments agreeing or disagreeing with the ones I listed. Feel free to leave comments, or write your own blog post and link to it from here. You can also drop me an email directly via contact page.

I am planning to leave this open for at least a week and then try to update the document to go beyond draft.

XAML Guidelines Draft HTML, PDF, XPS and DOCX.

For any one who finds this does not cover every thing they were wondering, please do let me know what I missed. I have at least two more topics that are related that I want to tackle next, but I figure partitioning them works best so we can build on a foundation.

Happy coding!

XAML practices series, part1

jaimer — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:09:00 GMT

If you ask any of the XAML practitioners about the XAML best practices on organizing a project, resources, etc.. they will all give you a single answer “it depends; every project is different”.. If you then ask them for details, you will get a slightly different answer from each expert.

In a brief attempt to aggregate the recurrent ‘good practices’, I recently interviewed a few folks about their preferences..
The first interview was IdentityMine's Jonathan Russ, Nathan Dunlap and Jared Potter.    These folks are some of the most experienced XAMLites I know.. Jonathan & Nathan date back to the early Avalon days..

Check out the video using Adam's play-by-play timeline by clicking on the image or the 3 wise guys..
[I will try to figure how to embed videos in the blog by the next part in this series]

Huge thanks to Jonathan, Nathan, Jared and the IdentityMine team for taking the time for the interview and to Adam for doing his magic with the video.