Monthly Archives: July 2009

XAML: Not Just for UI (part II)

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 20, 2009
Continuing from part I in the series, this post describes some of the tricky bits for implementing your own XAML-based test data loading infrastructure. For those that haven’t read part I, the story to this point is that XAML can be used to do some things that are completely unrelated to user interfaces – like loading [...]
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Welcome to the new NicholasArmstrong.com

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 12, 2009
There comes a time in every website’s life when it becomes apparent than a newer, more useful version is necessary. For NicholasArmstrong.com, that time was a year ago. But it wasn’t until recently that I had the time to undertake a revamp, and what you see before you now is the result. Welcome to NicholasArmstrong.com – version 2!
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Writing an Excellent (Software Engineering) Work Report

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 12, 2009
Writing a work report is something that students in co-op at the University of Waterloo will do a handful of times throughout their degree.  Unlike the literal interpretation of “work report”, for engineers these reports require the analysis of a situation the student encountered over their work term in order to evaluate their engineering [...]
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XAML: Not Just for UI

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 12, 2009
XAML is somewhat of a niche language: developers outside of the .NET world rarely have heard of it, and those that have heard about it - .NET developers or not - often treat it as a language used exclusively for UI design. So it's mostly those of us in the XAML niche - those that write user interfaces for a living - that know its secret: XAML itself has nothing to do with UI. And it can be rather useful in other scenarios if you know to use it.
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