March 2006 - Posts

• More on what to use WPF for, and what other graphics technologies you may want to use

  Pablo is one the most senior people on the WPF team and has been a key decision maker in deciding what scenarios WPF would address. http://www.fernicola.org/loquitor/index.php?/archives/19-When-to-use-WPF-and-when-to-use-other-technologies.html I'm going Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:13 AM by JohnGossman | 3 Comments

• What level of WPF graphics API should I use?

  I was going to post something about the various levels you can use in WPF for graphics, but Pablo Fernicola beat me to it: http://www.fernicola.org/loquitor/index.php?/archives/17-WPF-Pick-Your-API-Abstraction.html Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:38 PM by JohnGossman | 2 Comments

• Why people hate frameworks

  Great post on a discussion thread off Joel On Software. Lutz pointed it out...hilarious: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12 I happen to love frameworks, but I understand the sentiment in the posting. Read More... Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 5:41 PM by JohnGossman | 0 Comments

• CollectionView

  CollectionView is a very interesting construct. After including it in my ViewModel I meant to quickly blog about the usage...but when I started thinking about it and reading a bit more about it, it becomes even more interesting. Lots of good blogging. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:34 AM by JohnGossman | 3 Comments

• Advantages and disadvantages of M-V-VM

  I've had several questions about when and why to use M-V-VM versus other approaches. The obvious purpose is abstraction of the View, reducing the amount of business logic or glue code stuck in code-behind. All tasty goodness abstractly, but here's another Read More... Posted Saturday, March 04, 2006 1:09 PM by JohnGossman | 2 Comments