Unless you have been living under a rock the past few days you already know about the recent release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta. Since I know you already downloaded and installed all the shiny new toys, let?s take a quick look at how to get started writing a custom […]
Read MoreSo far we have built an earthquake application, mapped an address using geocoding, and even Prism-fied the Bing Maps WPF control.? Now let?s see how to map a route with turn-by-turn directions.? By now it should be no surprise that you will need to complete the following steps before you can create this application. Get […]
Read MoreIf you know me or know of me you are aware that I am a big Prism advocate/evangelist. You may have also noticed that I have been playing around with the new Bing Maps WPF control. So it shouldn?t surprise you that I would find a way to compose a Bing Map of loosely coupled […]
Read MoreIn my last post I showed you how to get started using the Bing Maps WPF control by creating an earthquake application. Now I want to introduce you to the Bing Maps SOAP Services. The Bing Maps SOAP Services is a set of programmable SOAP services that allow you to integrate maps and imagery, driving […]
Read MoreLast week I wrote a blog post showing how you can write inline code in XAML. When that blog post was published, @ElegantCode tweeted the post on Twitter. Rob Relyea soon re-tweeted that post with a link to one of his own posts on exploring new techniques for DLR script in XAML which also links […]
Read MoreA couple of days ago I was spreading the WPF goodness and was talking about how MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) helps promote separation of concerns by removing the need for the code-behind file from the associated XAML file. After my statement someone replied with the following question, “So why even have it there, can you just delete […]
Read MoreSo I am using Visual Studio 2008 for developing WPF and Silverlight applications. The one thing that really annoys me is when I open a .XAML file and then Visual Studio automatically opens the file in split view mode. I am sure you are well aware of how VS 2008 support for the preview pane […]
Read MoreOkay, so I needed a very simple and clean loading animation for a multi threaded application I was working on to notify the user that something was in the process of being loaded. So of course the first place I looked was Google, because I figured someone else has already written one and I could […]
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