Collecting all errors of ValidationRules in WPF
Almost all articles on WPF and validation focus first on ValidationRules, and then continue telling you why IDataErrorInfo is better. A few go on and show you how to combine IDataErrorInfo with DataAnnotations. While these last two are definitely good options, they’re a little heavy for a very simple application. In my case: call a […]
A repository with Sterling for a desktop WPF application
Well, I’ve switched databases again. After briefly trying NHibernate, then switching to RavenDB, then looking at Karvonite, I think I’ve found what I was looking for in Sterling. I was looking for an easy way to persist objects. NHibernate is nice, but compared to object-oriented databases, it’s a lot of work (database schema’s, mapping files, […]
WPF, NHibernate and the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern (MVVM)
WPF creates a whole new range of possibilities, but you can often run into trouble when trying to combine it with NHibernate. NHibernate can’t handle ObservableCollections*, which is a quite handy feature of WPF. Furthermore, what to do with the good databinding capabilities of WPF?Shawn Duggan provides a nice solution using the **Model-View-ViewModel **pattern here. […]
WPF Databinding to Controls with ValueConverter
I’m a fan of the MVP design pattern, so databinding isn’t something I would use very often, but I have found a use for it in WPF. It is very easy to databind one Control to the other. This gives us some interesting possibilities. For a standard example, check out this screencast. What I want […]