Hi Cliff,

A repo would be nice. I'm also working on a port of the employee admin demo.

What details do you need from me?

Many thanks

Matt

Fare does,

Does feel easier to write. I think my only concern was when porting applications, it introduces the need to replace all the differences, but i guess it's nothing a solution wide search and replace can't sort out =)

It's nice to see all the thread safe updates in there as thats something I hadn't had any experience with when i did the initial port.

All the best

Matt

Hi Guys,

I've managed to put together another demo based on Chandima Cumaranatunges minimalist example found here:

http://www.as3dp.com/2007/12/27/minimalist-mvc-example-using-the-puremvc-framework/

You can try my silverlight version here: (You may have to give silverlight focus first)

http://puremvc.mattbrailsford.com/minimalistdemo/

And download the source here:

http://puremvc.mattbrailsford.com/minimalistdemo/Demo_CSharp_Silverlight_Minimalist.zip

Many thanks

Matt

Hey Cliff,

Jobs a good en, all checked in successfully.

Many thanks

Matt

Hi Guys,

I had a spare couple of hours over the weekend so thought i'd catchup with the latest silverlight release and the recent changes in PureMVC by updating my Login demo.

With that, I have FINALY managed to get the code into a releasable format. For anyone interested you can download it here:

http://puremvc.mattbrailsford.com/logindemo/Demo_CSharp_Silverlight_WebService_Login.zip

You can try it online at:

http://puremvc.mattbrailsford.com/logindemo/

Username: admin
Password: admin

All the best

Matt

Hi Guys,

I've downloaded the source both as a zip and from the svn repo but neither seem to compile due to a missing file PureMVC.snk

I've currently had to un-sign my solution to get it to compile.

Could you please either add the file to the repo? or provide the relevant instructions on the wiki?

Many thanks

Matt

Hi guys,

Is there any reason why the as3 naming convention isn't followed anymore?

I thought the idea was to make ports as similar as possible so it's easy for people to cross polinate?

Many thanks

Matt

Hi Guys,

I just thought i'd write a quick update as the demo is obviously not up yet.

As endquote mentioned, there have been a few changes in the Silverlight from 1.1 to 2.0 the major ones being the lack of non generic collections and a different project / build structure.

Whilst the latter isn't that important, the lack of non generic collections support does mean that we need to decide wich way we want to go (either branch the generic / non generic code, or go all generic and abandon .NET 1.0 support).

If you want to read more, and have your say, take a look at the "[url http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=141.0]Array, ArrayList, IList<> and Hashtable, IDictionary<> [/url] " post.

What this means for the demo though is that it is a little delayed, again. Sorry guys.

I have updated my codebase, but untill we decide on how we want to move forward with this, i can't yet commit it.

Another problem is also the silverlight version of NUnitLite i was using. This also now needs updating to use generic collections.

So rest assured that i am working on getting this demo out, but there are just a few things to sort out first.

Of course, if someone else would like to update the NUnitLite source code, that would help

Thanks for you patiance

Matt

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the link, very usefull.

One of the things we were trying to do with the C# port (and where the beauty lied) was that the one code base worked across all the platforms (ie .NET, .NETCF and Silverlight). This kept the maintenance down.

By spiliting the project, this will mean that another code base has to be maintained, making it that little bit more time consuming, when that time could be spent on better things like demos.

Matt

.NET Compact Framework, ASP.NET and even Mono seem to all support generics, so the only potential casualty is .NET 1 (Please correct me if i'm wrong)

They have said that they are going to maintain support in the main .NET framework, but only for backwards compatability and seing as Silverlight is new, they aren't bothering keeping the basic types as there shouldn't be any backwards compatability issues.

Branching the repo is gonna be a bit of a pain, but it might be the only way forward. Maybe we can see how popular each one is over time and if nobody uses the non generics one, just leave it on the back burner.

trilec

From what i have found on google, STL does seem to be the same as generics (Again please correct me if i'm wrong)

Hi Cliff,

Ok, as part of my update of the Silverlight demo, i have noticed that silverlight no longer has support for the basic datatypes in favour of generics. I'm not sure if you know about generics, but it's basicaly a typed list, ie a list that will only accept values of a certain type.

My question is, what route do you think should be taken? Should the C# framework be updated to use generics throughout (which will no longer work for .NET 1.0) or do we create another version?

What do you think?

Matt

Hey,

Welcome to the forum, as promised, this demo WILL be up by the end of the week. So if you take a look at the demos sugested by Cliff, and then you can grab the silverlight demo shortly.

I have downloaded the C# port of PureMVC and have tweaked it to build as a Silverlight 2 project...

I'd be interested to know what you needed to tweak to get it to work with Silverlight 2 as if it is a downfall in the setup it would be good to get it updated so others don't have the same problem.

Cliff,

What is this sleep you speak of? I think i remember it from my childhood, but that was a distant memory

With regards to Silverlight being a FLASH killer, i'd have to say not. But it has potential to give FLEX a run for it's money. I think it's still very imature though, and probably needs another version or two to be somewhere near to flex. But i think it will end up becoming a question of what ever comes easiest to the developer.

Maybe i'll do a better comparison later, but i have a demo to comit

Matt

Hi Cliff,

Sorry about the delay, i've just been REALY busy these past couple  of weeks, plus my copy of VS 2008 timed out, but i now have a full version thanks to the lauch tour =)

I will make it my lifes mission to get something up this week. I just want to rework it to use the new controls instead of the 3rd party controls i was using. But a working example will be up this week.

Matt

Cheers Joel.

This and ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns are already in my library, it's just the applying of this into real world applications that i now need to master.

Matt

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a project where i need to build a basic drawing book application. It is basically made up of a series of pages that a user can flick between (kinda like a pdf) but also have the ability to draw on each page with a series of different tools (pen, line, rectangle, oval, text).

There will also need to be the functionality to zoom in out out aswell as pan the zoomed page.

Could someone help with the best way to architect this?

Many thanks

Matt