Every .NET developer has already used an Ambient Context without knowing it. A typical Ambient Context is: using (var tx = new TransactionScope()) { …. } The pattern is not very well known. Here is one good description I found: The Wandering Glitch – Ambient Context I found this pattern very useful for displaying progress/busy… Read More »
I found the change tracking in WPF always a little bit painful, when working with simple POCOs without any change tracking context (for example ADO.NET EF). Therefore, I wrote a small library which simplifies the tracking. The Lib contains three interesting classes: EditableObject: Imlements the IEditableObject interfaces and handles the revert functionality and change tracking.… Read More »
In my last project (WPF/MVVM) I had to deal with a lot of data in the application. I stored the data in a ObservableCollection and bound the collection to a chart and a grid. Everything worked very well. But the data in the ObservableCollection changed frequently. By default, the ObservableCollection notifies every change in the… Read More »
This is a very small MVVM tutorial. I used the MVVM Light (Galasoft) framework. I like this framework because, it brings a lot of very useful features. The idea behind MVVM is to seperate the UI from the code. The most things I like are that your application is testable, “blendable” and you don’t have… Read More »