Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform –The architecture

In my recent post introducing the news aggregator I detailed what we are currently building. In this post, I will discuss some very high level architecture and some considerations around how to build the application. My first draft at architecture is to just get the different functional parts of the program identified. Then later we [...]

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Making WPF Converters easier to use

When binding data to WPF controls it is good practice to use a IValueConverter or IMultiValueConverter or use the adaptor pattern which is what I do for the equivalent when using MVC for the web, to change the values from your domain objects to something you can bind to which makes sense for the Gui [...]

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WPF Datagrid

This is a very short post. I just wanted to point to this great site and especially this tutorial on the WPF DataGrid. http://www.wpftutorial.net/DataGrid.html Its a great reference, and I’m including a post here so I can find it again easily and share with others.

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Embedding a WPF control in a Windows Forms Application

I recently found myself working on a Windows Forms application that is very well developed and has become a key part of the infrastructure on a project I am working on. We wanted to create a very fancy navigation item and something that would also display workflow status at the same time. The obvious choice [...]

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