model view presenter

I just started part three of my book Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours. In this part we are going to use the model view presenter pattern.I’ve used this in the past and i liked it very much.

I’m excited to start on my next project using WPF.

Dragon naturally speaking 10

Together with my copy of Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours, I bought a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred.

I have set up two users one for my native language Dutch and another one for English.

So far I am very pleased with the results, actually I’m speaking to my computer right now so all this in my previous post are spoken rather than typed.

I haven’t used the system very much yet. It is amazingly flawless, albeit it does make a mistake here and there. I do believe that when you correct your errors it does learn from it. So I guess using it more often should improve the quality.

Actually the idea of starting to talk to the PC is something I’ve tried with Dragon NaturallySpeaking eight and I was not very impressed at that time. The new version however is way better than the previous.

I haven’t started to learn how I can send commands to my PC, but that should be doable to. One of the best things I find so far is that you never make grammar mistakes. It is always correct.

Finally started on WPF

Last Friday I bought myself a book called Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours.

I have just finished the seventh hour and so far we have profits application layouts, basic controls, data binding and how to design an application.

So far I am quite impressed with the way WPF works and I think it’ll be very useful in designing new business applications that are more user-friendly user oriented and just get things done faster.

When you are used to working with Windows forms it is quite a steep learning curve because it is so very different.there are a lot of controls that work just a little bit differently than what you’re used to in Windows forms.

It is obvious that I won’t be able to grasp everything WPF has to offer from reading this book alone but it is a place to start.

Currently myself and some colleagues are looking to build a new business application and we are investigating whether we would like to use WPF as opposed to Windows forms.

My mission statement says that we will invest constantly in research for new market evolutions to add leverage to new projects.

I strongly believe that xaml will grow up to be a common language for all of Microsoft’s presentation technologies such as server like ASP.net and Windows client development. Maybe it could even serve as a language for technologies that have not yet been invented or at least not released to the public.

I am sure though that WPF is here to stay.