I’ve, as you maybe know, been working on a Silverlight flickr viewer for my fiancées blog. And now that I have finally got it all done, blogged about it and so on, it was time to actually implement it on her blog. So I took the code from my blog posts and built my services and view models, but tore out the entire view layer and replaced it with a somewhat prettier thing. It has a thumbnail view that is visible in her blog posts. It looks as small Polaroid photos scattered on her page. And then when you click one of them, it changes to a full screen view and shows a larger Polaroid picture with the pictures description an handwriting.
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I guess it is time to tie it all together and get the UI up and running for the flickrVIEWR. As you will notice, having built the viewmodels, the code for the UI is actually very simple. And the cool part is that there is no code in code behind at all.
But before I start creating the Xaml for the application, I’m going to hook up the viewmodel to the page and do a few little bits and pieces needed to get it all working.
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Hello again! It is time to go through the next phase in the development of the flickrVIEWR that I started a couple of days ago. The viewmodels. As usual I do build my Silverlight application using the MVVM pattern. I like this pattern a lot. Coming from an ASP.NET background, I think it offers a lot of nice features that I whish where available in general web development. I guess you do get some of the benefits and features by using MVC, but I have yet to try out doing that. And I will, I promise.
Anyhow…the viewmodels for the flickrVIEWR is not that complicated. Not at all. THhey have some small tricks up their sleeves, but nothing really cool. But before we get to the viewmodels I’m going to take a small detour via a service locator…
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I’m back! I’ve had my work up to my eyeballs the last couple of weeks. Apparently moving to the other side of the world and starting a new job takes a lot of time. So after that excuse, it is time to get started with my new project.
My fiancée has this blog where she blogs about our new life in NZ. And this is interesting to you because…? Well, it isn’t, but it is the reason for this blog post as well as a few more coming soon. On her blog, she posts pictures. These pictures are taken by her or me by a camera with several megapixels. That makes them too big for her blog. So she has to resize them before uploading them. This takes time and is annoying. So I offered to solve it in a somewhat more modern way. By using flickr. So she will upload her images to flickr and then use a little Silverlight application to show them on her blog. So that’s where this blog post is about…the flickrVIEWR…
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