Tag archive for ‘.NET’

WPF DataBinding: Refreshing from Source

WPF DataBinding is terrific and allows for very passive views and easy source object updates. However, triggering updates in the view based on changes in the source object can be a little tricky.
If you want to make sure changes to your source object are reflected in your view, your source object will need to implement [...]

Macro- vs. Micro-MVC Architectures

I was reading today on SQLServerCentral.com about SQL Server’s XQuery capabilities. I was quite fascinated. Microsoft has seemed somewhat slow on the XML uptake, so including XQuery in SQL Server 2005 was somewhat of a shock.
However, I was struck with an idea after reading the article. This type of functionality puts SQL Server on a [...]

What Is a Development Framework?

I’ve been thinking about this question ever since I came across WAMP Server the other day. In their list of included packages, they noted Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki and phpBB. Until I read that, I had never considered a modular, open source web application to be a framework. (more…)