In the last post I added IMessenger into Blazor so it’s accessible via dependency injection. But what do I do with it and how do I use it? That’s what we’ll cover today by starting with the different code blocks in the razor page and then walking through the html and JavaScript. As always, all […]
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One of the end goals with these recent posts was to outline a basic plugin architecture for WPF. At it’s core it uses reflection to load the plugins but there were a few gotchas along the way. The first was just getting the assemblies to output the required files and finally was loading those assemblies. […]
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Now that we have SignalR integrated into our API, I want to start using it from WPF. So to do this we’re going to add a SignalR chat handler. One of the ideas behind this application was to support multiple types of methods for sending chats using the IMessenger interface provided by CommunityToolkit.Mvvm. That way, […]
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Now that I have an API for my client to pull from I want to extend my chatter chat application to be able to hit it. Portions of this post were inspired by IAmTimCorey’s video on Background Jobs in ASP.NET Core. Other parts derive from the Microsoft documentation on Sytem.Threading.Timer I’m going to start by […]
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One of the primary frameworks I used to use for DI was Unity Container. It’s a wonderful project but with support from Microsoft for host.services I’ve abandoned Unity Container in favor of the Microsoft solution. The main reason is that I see it everywhere. Maybe it’s the hot, new thing but using it and asking […]
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There is a lot to unpack in that title. Let’s start with the Try-Parse pattern. This pattern is defined in Microsoft’s “Exceptions and Performance” article (which itself comes from Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, 2nd Edition) and is likely one you are very familiar with. Fundamentally the return type […]
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I decided I should start titling my posts with XAML instead of WPF as they are applicable regardless of whether you are developing in Windows 7 with WPF or Windows 8. I’m going to take the BreadCrumb design pattern sample and extend it to include the Live Filter design pattern. The premise behind the Live […]
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I’ve been getting quite a few hits lately on my post, Binding a Dependency Property of a View to its ViewModel. After reviewing it I realized that, while the post isn’t too bad, it doesn’t read as smooth as I would like (though it does have some pretty pictures with arrows and boxes and stuff, […]
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This continues my series on ways you’ve probably used design patterns in real-life and may not have even known it. I’m going to go even further outside of the standard software design patterns into UI design patterns. Specifically, I wanted to address the bread crumb, a UI design pattern that concerns navigation. In web development […]
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I found a lot of different tutorials on binding a ComboBox to an enum but none of them worked. In every case the ComboBox would not stay selected to the value I chose, instead always reverting back to the previous selected value. Couple that with the fact that I wanted to use the Display attribute […]
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