Structura a Silverlight/WPF Line of Business Application Framework

nablasoft.com — Here’s the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an application framework for building modular and pluggable line of business application in both Silverlight and WPF. It Uses IoC containers for pluggability and MVP, MVVM patterns for User Interfaces. read more...

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Wrap IList<T> and use it for effective binding in Silverlight and WPF

nablasoft.com — If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation..here is how you can wrap them to take full advantage of the binding mechanism in WPF and Silverlight. read more...

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Silverlight: simulate a ‘Windows’ desktop app. 3 (Resizable Window)

nablasoft.com — A set of controls which allow the simulation of a Windows Forms application in a Silverlight environment. The form content can be defined at runtime, the window template is completely customizable; each window can be created declaratively or by code and has complete support for dragging and resizing; new features added: template revised, resizing from any side and corners, autoscroll if the content is wider than the window itself. read more...

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Some Code Analysis and Refactoring Utilities you may like

nablasoft.com — As a developer I always look for some utilities that can help raise my productivity bar and avoid common bugs. I always go for open-source projects and free software first, cause we all know that in many cases we have a very limited budget to invest. So here is some GREAT pieces of software that can help you. read more...

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Deep Clone of a business object: the quick and dirty way

nablasoft.com — ...I needed a quick and dirty way to do the deep clone of an object, since my entity classes are shared between WCF, WPF and Silverlight (yes I’m one of the guys so crazy to build multi-target applications) I needed a method that could work in all the environments... read more...

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Invoking a Java/AXIS Web Service from .NET: the ‘return null’ issue

nablasoft.com — When you try invoke a Java/Axis Web Service from a proxy class generated by Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 you often crash against the ‘return null’ issue... read more...

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Silverlight: Dropdown Menu Control

nablasoft.com — In a previous post I showed how we can build a simple menu control for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Silverlight: how to build a simple menu control); then with the release of Silverlight RC0 some things were changed and the menu stopped working, due to how events are handled for disabled controls (Silverlight 2 RC0 – first problems due to undocumented breaking changes on disabled controls). The only way to overcome these problems was to completely rewrite the control... read more...

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Silverlight: how to build a simple Menu Control

nablasoft.com — In my current project I needed to use a dynamic Menu Control (a completely declarative approach hardcoding the structure in XAML wasn’t a good fit for my application cause I need to dynamically add, remove, enable and disable menu items). read more...

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