This is the third video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video we will create the first module in the application called the Mail module. We concentrate on just stubbing out the module project, creating a module catalog, adding the Mail module […]
Read MoreThis is the second video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, I walk you through creating a shell for both the WPF and Silverlight platforms. This is a relatively short video, because shells are just so stinking easy. The only concept […]
Read MoreWhen I was reading Just for Fun, I came across this paragraph in the book where Linus Torvalds stated that he never missed a good night?s sleep during the early days when he was hacking together the first version of the Linux kernel. In fact, he clearly stated in his book that he doesn?t allow […]
Read MoreRecently I added Twitter authentication to TrackMyRun using a library called Passport. I was pretty impressed how smooth this all went as I completely neglected all security concerns from the get go, which is definitely not recommended by the way. For this post I?ll walk you through the process of setting up Passport for Express […]
Read MoreWith out eleventh release just our the door, I was struggling to come up with a descriptive post title that captured the essence of the new version. Looking back at the 190 commits by 25 authors that make up the release, "more than the sum of its parts" is an appropriate description. A total of […]
Read MoreWe?ve always tried to make sure that Nancy being able to run on Mono for every new release we put out. Since neither me or @Grumpydev use Mono or MonoDevelop as our primary development environment, nor does a lot of our contributors, we?ve always found ourselves having to play ?mono-catch-up? at the end of each […]
Read MoreThis is the first video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. This video covers how to setup a multi-platform Prism application that targets WPF and Silverlight. I show you how to setup your directory structure, as well as the solution/project structure inside Visual Studio. […]
Read MoreOften when learning a technology you start by searching the web. You look for videos, blogs, articles, samples, and examples. What you start to realize is that everything you find is very simple “demo” code. That’s code that shows how to implement a simple feature in a non-realistic demo. Then you start looking for “production” […]
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