Model-View-ViewModel is an architectural pattern mainly used in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 development whose aim is to virtually remove all the code-behind from the View layer. Interactive Designers can focus on UX needs using XAML and create bindings to the ViewModel, which is written and maintained by application developers.
MVVM is a specifi [...]
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MVVM Frameworks For .NET
Model-View-ViewModel is an architectural pattern mainly used in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 development whose aim is to virtually remove all the code-behind from the View layer. Interactive Designers can focus on UX needs using XAML and create bindings to the ViewModel, which is written and maintained by application developers.
MVVM is a specifi [...]
WinRT: An Object Orientated Replaceme...
WinRT isn’t another abstraction layer; it resides directly on top of the kernel just like the Win32 API. This marks the first major break in the core of Windows since Win32 was introduced in 1993 with Windows NT. WinRT represents a new application execution environment with semantics that are very different than Win32.
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Top Agile Books 2011
For the second year in a row Jurgen Appelo came up with his list of top 100 Agile books. The list is based on average ratings and number of ratings done on Amazon.com and GoodReads.com. The scoring also considers the year of publication.
via InfoQ: Top Agile Books 2011.
Behavior Driven Development In .NET
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is being increasingly seen as an alternative way to approach Test Driven Development. SpecFlow and NSpec are popular frameworks for BDD in .NET. They help create test specifications that are easy to read even for non-programmers and allow the design of the software to be driven by it’s purpose.
via InfoQ: Beh [...]
InfoQ: All Right It Failed, What Next...
Usually failures result in anger, frustration and playing the blame game. However, failures are wasted if there is no learning from them. How can Agile teams make failures beautiful?
via InfoQ: All Right It Failed, What Next?.
re-mix: mixins for C# and Visual Basi...
Mixins are small bits of functionality that are useful to a wide variety of otherwise unrelated classes. In languages that support multiple inheritance mixins are added as secondary base classes while dynamically typed languages simply merge in the extra functionality. Since C# and VB don’t normally support these options, mixins are normally [...]
