Category Archives: WPF

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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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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The "I didn’t know it could do that" WPF Post

By Nicholas | Published: April 7, 2008
At the end of my last co-op term, I was in a good position.  I was a pro at WPF — I’d spent 4 solid months working on a WPF application in the financial sector, and was probably the best WPF developer on the team — even though the others on the team had [...]
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The Trouble with WPF

By Nicholas | Published: February 24, 2008
I’ve been working with WPF quite a lot lately, in no small part because I’m now on an internship with the WPF team at Microsoft.  This post is not about the work, though — it’s been great — but rather, the one glaring flaw that I keep seeing, over and over, with WPF.  Before [...]
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