Invoking commands from events using the InvokeCommandAction behavior 20 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot WPF/Silverlight MVVM is something for me. Databinding your data and behavior so you don’t have any code in your views is for me a nice separation of concepts. However some control’s cannot execute a command for certain events, for example when you select something in a listbox. Enters InvokeCommandAction, which is... [More]
Entity Framework 4 with Self Tracking Entities - Splitting up the generated entities onto a shared Entities assembly with (almost) no fuss 17 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot I love the new Entity Framework 4 T4 templates for generating POCO’s and Self Tracking Entities. However the generated code ends up in a single assembly, mixing database independent POCO’s and STE’s with Entity Framework specific code. I like my entities to be in another project. How can we do this?... [More]
U2U is still looking for colleagues 16 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot Stuff Today someone asked my if U2U is still looking for new colleagues, since some time passed since the announcements in popular job-sites. The answer is YES! If you’d like to join the U2U team, contact us! And maybe you’ll be joining us at TechEd Berlin. The perfect opportunity to get to know each oth... [More]
Building a generic EntityViewModel 15 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot In this blog post I want to show you a little ViewModel wrapper for entities I’ve built. You can use it to wrap entities who don’t need to support property change notifications, implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. When your model’s entities support INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErro... [More]