11 Mar 2009
One thing I haven't really included in any of the example Silverlight
posts are the unit tests. There's continuous debate among developers
concerning the effectiveness of unit tests, in my opinion they're
absolutely necessary whenever you're building an application. Test
driven development (TDD) on the other hand I still find very hard, it's
a different way to approach development that seems difficult to pick up
without peer programming with someone who already has this approach.
08 Mar 2009
I'm currently working on a project that requires the use of duplex
services to report progress on a long running event (I'll go more into
the actual event in a later post). The reference material I started
with was "How to: Build a Duplex Service" and "How to: Access a Duplex Service with the Channel Model",
building the service itself its a relatively simple affair with a
slight learning experience as I hadn't really used the Message class
from WCF before.
05 Mar 2009
Occasionally we all run into bugs in systems not built by ourselves.
Some are minor, some however really make you wonder how much QA was
really done. Sadly this was the latter.
25 Feb 2009
With MIX coming up I'd thought I'd list some of the things I'm wanting to see in Silverlight 3.
16 Feb 2009
As someone who's still learning Silverlight I like to put together the
xaml for all my examples and experiments by hand. Since xaml and the
underlying object structure for a control are exactly the same once you
can compose something in xaml you can do the same in C#.