Creating Line of Business applications using DevExpress WPF controls is just a breeze. The actual application is nice looking too! Since there are a couple of skins available and the good thing is the skin also changes the look and feel of standard WPF controls!

 

In this part of the tutorial, we'll enhance our shell view to display other presenters and add Save and Print support for presenters supporting it. You can use generalize this example and learn how to implement generic features in your shell.

 

Back in May 2008, I did two posts on how to implement a composite application using Caliburn framework. By that time, Caliburn was still in pre-alpha stage. With lots of the changes along the way to reach Release Candidate, those content are not valid anymore, so I thought a new post to show how you can use Caliburn to build a WPF application is in order. 

Caliburn is an application framework for WPF / Silverlight. If you're developing applications for these platforms, there are many reasons why you definitely need to be using this framework, but today, I noticed how using this framework resulted writing less code while doing more. Let's see how writing a small WPF application using MVVM pattern is different when using Caliburn. 

I've been working on a small LoB application to manage sales of a small sales office. I thought it'd be a good idea to put to use my WPF knowledge and use WPF to create this application. The reason is obvious : Programming in WPF is as easy as it gets, more testable (as in Unit Testing and Acceptance Testing) and more end-user friendly.