This is an older blog post but I came across it recently. Here’s a cool video demo for some best practices for creating apps in WPF. Specifically it shows the paradigm of using the Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM) pattern to help improve the managibility, readability, reusability, and testability of the components of your enterprise caliber app: http://blog.lab49.com/archives/2650 Here’s [...]
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We have a client that may be needing this soon and, since the old way of calling a Google search web service is going away, I thought I would throw together a class that performs the work in the new manner which is to use the Google AJAX Search API. Make sure you follow their [...]
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I look forward to working with more mature geodata APIs but I see now you can do quite a bit of cool stuff quickly with Virtual Earth. This version has drag-n-drop layer activation, Transtar Cam integration, clickable Greenway Plaza buildings, etc… Nothing too fancy. Click HERE to see the demo On the left side there’s [...]
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I’ve just completed a simple demo of screen pop functionality that I’ve written using Microsoft’s Unified Communications APIs. If you want to try a copy, contact me. Overview The Call Assistant is an application that determines who an inbound call is from and then brings up a screen of data associated with that person [...]
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When working with UC, or anything that has some involvement with COM objects, one tends to notice the environment can be a bit unforgiving. UC is new as well and sometimes bits of answers are scattered all over the internet. When getting applications developed using the Microsoft Unified Communications Client SDK (UCCAPI) I’ve had a [...]
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