Market Data Trader » MVVM http://marketdatatrader.com Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:31:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Microsoft Patterns and Practices Symposium 2010 http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/10/26/microsoft-patterns-and-practices-symposium-2010/ http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/10/26/microsoft-patterns-and-practices-symposium-2010/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:39:44 +0000 Alpha http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/10/26/microsoft-patterns-and-practices-symposium-2010/ Just a few of my highlights from the Symposium:

  • RX! Linq for real-time events!  Awesome!
  • Background worker threads as you know them are dead?!  Look at the Parallel / Async Patterns put out by the patterns and practices team
  • On the MVVM front, more confirmation that Commands are losing support.  The rumor has it more and more are starting to just bind to a method.  Makes sense doesn’t it?
  • OData everywhere!  In the old 80/20 game, OData addresses 80% of the clients’ needs.  Just stand your data up.  Easy to consume.  Easy to provide.
  • Keep an eye on REST.  With Glenn Block joining that effort, you can expect a bang up job to be done.

Hopefully, I’ll get some more time to put out some more morsels from this week long affair.

Things I was supposed to tell you:

  • Test driven development is not a questionable practice.  The jury is long in on this.  Everyone benefits.
  • More positives on the pair programming and agile front.

Share

]]> http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/10/26/microsoft-patterns-and-practices-symposium-2010/feed/ 0 MEF and MVVM http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/07/16/mef-and-mvvm/ http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/07/16/mef-and-mvvm/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:35:24 +0000 Alpha http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/07/16/mef-and-mvvm/ MEF is fantastic!  I was fortunate to get an introduction from Glenn Block a few months back and have been playing with it ever since.  Today, I discovered the significance of the NonShared Part Creation Policy, which was covered in the original February 2010 MSDN Magazine article “Managed Extensibility Framework: Building Composable Apps in .NET 4.”  This came in really handy when working on a workbench that allows users to instantiate multiple instances of the same tool and I want each View to have it’s own independent ViewModel.  Very cool MEF team!

Share

]]> http://marketdatatrader.com/2010/07/16/mef-and-mvvm/feed/ 0