Welcome to <XamlGeek /> by Ian Randall - a vocal, enthusiastic, sometimes opinionated WPF geek, working for Datacom in Auckland, NZ as a software developer..

I'm co-organising Codemania! - Auckland's premier software developer conference, and

I help run Metro Meetup - Auckland's presentation-focussed User Group.

I ask lots of questions, and try to become just a little bit better at what I do every single day.

This blog is the output of some of those learnings...

Recent Posts

Jan 3 2011

The Model in MVVM

There's an M in MVVM, you know...

modelmvvmddd
Dec 15 2010
Dec 8 2010

Injecting a Model into a ViewModel

Using IoC to resolve your M, V and VM in View-first architectures

iocmvvmview-first
Dec 4 2010

Testing Async Commands

How to test code that spins up on background threads

testingasynccommanding
Nov 30 2010

Async Commanding for MVVM

How to implement an asynchronous commanding pattern in your ViewModel

wpfasynccommandingmvvm
Nov 17 2010

Configuring MicroIocContainer

How to configure individual members

iocwp7
Nov 6 2010

Introducing MicroIoc

Oh no, not another IOC container...

wp7iocmicroioc
Nov 4 2010

An IOC Container for WP7

Much more impressed with Caliburn Micro than I was with SimpleContainer

iocwp7
Oct 6 2010

Writing a code snippet in Visual Studio 2010

Reducing your daily keystrokes can only be a good thing...

code-snippetvs2010
Sep 29 2010

Using Application Shutdown to kill your app

What happens when you call Application.Current.Shutdown() ?

wpfapplicationshutdown
Sep 28 2010

I can hardly even spell F#

Functional programming

f#
Sep 10 2010

Using Sum - an aggregate LINQ function

How to avoid a potential pitfall in LINQ aggregation

linqaggregationnullable
Sep 10 2010

More thoughts on the VSM for WPF 4

Continuing last week's look at the VSM

wpfvsm
Sep 10 2010

Tech Ed talk

My first ever Tech-Ed presentation

tech-edmvvmxaml
Sep 10 2010

Having a blast...

Rubbing shoulders with real-life (geek) rockstars :)

techeddnr
Sep 9 2010

Exciting news

Going to be presenting at Tech-Ed!

tech-edpresentation
Sep 8 2010

The future of XAML?

HTML5? No thank you...

xamlwpfmvvmthoughts
Jul 4 2010

Visual State Manager for WPF4

Examining the VSM for WPF. Is it needed? Is it any good?

wpfvsm
Jul 2 2010

Welcome to XAML Geek

Sharing my thoughts and opinions on angled brackets

blogwpfxaml
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