Nested Unity Containers and Singletons
I work on a project that uses Unity dependency injection framework. You get objects from container by calling Container.Resolve<SomeType>(). By default each call to Resolve() will return a new object. […]
Prism Region Manager and Data Templates
When you add a view to a region (Region.Add(view)), it could be a real view, or a data template from which the view is created. The region tries to associate […]
Prism Region Manager and ContentPresenter
Very brief note, so I don’t forget the circumstances: I may write a sample later. When you define Prism region in your view like this: <igDock:TabGroupPane prism:RegionManager.RegionName=”SomeRegion” /> Prism has […]
Visual Studio Live Conference – Day 3
By their own admission, the organizers tried to squeeze most interesting stuff into the first two days, so the third day was less agile and prone to repetition of the […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (the end)
jQuery vs AJAX toolkit. It turns out Microsoft ditched AJAX libraries of its own (ASP.NET AJAX, MS Ajax Library, AJAX control toolkit) in favor of jQuery. AJAX control toolkit is […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (next part)
Rocky Lhotka gave a nice and quite deep speech on how we, regular software developers, can prepare ourselves to the brave new world of Metro and Windows 8. The trouble […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (continued)
Metro UX Design Guidelines. This class gave somewhat less technical perspective on all things Metro. According to the new religion, full screen is actually good for you. Show content, not […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2
Keynote was given today by two people: a senior manager from Microsoft and a CEO of a partner company. It’s funny that they refer to the whole event as “show”, […]
Visual Studio Live New York Day 1 (Non-Technical)
I was a little late for the keynote @8AM, but I don’t think I missed much. I expected some kind of strategic speech, but it was yet another demo with […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1 (continued)
WinRT Internals. WinRT runtime is a completely new set of classes available out of the box and usable in all 3 supported Metro environments, namely CLR (with C#/VB), WinJS (with […]