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Introduction

• Building the source code;
• Included sample applications;
• Release management process;
• A note on versioning;
• Contribution guideline;

How to

• How to: get the view of a given view model;
• How to: bi-directional communication between different windows/views;
• How to: handle the busy status during async/long running operations;

MVVM and UI Composition

• Quick Start (WPF);
• Quick Start (Universal App);

Radical Presentation: MVVM and UI Composition toolkit

(nuget package: Radical.Windows.Presentation)

• Inversion of Control:
  • Castle Windsor;
  • Autofac;
  • Unity (v2 & v3);
  • Puzzle Container (for WinRT & WP apps);
• Conventions:
  • Bootstrap conventions;
  • Runtime conventions;
  • Conventions override;
• MVVM;
  • AbstractViewModel;
  • Validation and Validation Services;
  • The boot process demystified;
    • Application shutdown;
    • Singleton applications;
    • WinRT peculiarities;
  • The “IViewResolver”: how to get view instances at runtime;
    • Default view behaviors;
    • Intercepting view life cycle events:
      • In the view model: Callback expectations;
      • Using broker messages: notify messages;
    • Intercepting the view model before it is used;
    • Accessing the view model after the view is closed;
  • The message broker;
    • Built-in messages;
    • Stand alone message handlers;
  • AbstractMementoViewModel and the Change Tracking Service;
    • Handling change tracking in a simple ViewModel;
    • Handling change tracking in collections and complex ViewModels graph;
  • Focus management;
  • [WinRT] Charms handling;
    • [WinRT] Settings Charm Conventions plugin;
  • UI Composition;
    • Region content lifecycle;
    • The TabControl region;
    • Create a custom region;
  • Splash screen management;

Radical

(nuget package: Radical)

• The message broker;
  • POCO messages;
• Entity and EntityCollection;
• Property System;
• IBindingListView implementation: EntityView;
• Change Tracking Service;
  • MementoEntity and MementoEntityCollection;
  • Handling change tracking in a simple model;
  • Handling change tracking in collections;
  • Handling change tracking in complex objects graph;
  • Atomic operations;
  • Change Tracking Service API;
  • Property Metadata for the Change Tracking Service;
  • Handling collection sync
• System.Enum metadata and localization;
• Observers concepts;
  • PropertyObserver;
  • MementoObserver;
  • BrokerObserver;
  • EntityViewListChangedObserver;
• Customer Improvement Program;

Radical Windows

(nuget package: Radical.Windows)

• Collections:
  • ObservableEntityCollection;
  • EntityCollectionView;
• Behaviors:
  • Auto Complete; 
  • Cue banner;
  • Drag & Drop;
  • Empty place holder;
  • List view behaviors:
    • Column manager;
    • Column header commanding;  
    • Auto size, selected items binding, sort and item double click management;
  • DataGrid Behavior
  • Overlay adorner;
    • Busy status manager;
  • Text box:
    • Command;
    • Auto select;
    • DisableUndoManager (.Net 3.5 only);
  • Password;
  • Window control box;
  • Generic routed event handler to command behavior;
• Markup: 
  • Editor binding;
  • Command bindings:
    • Auto command binding;
    • Behavior auto command binding;
• Effects:
  • Gray scale
• Converters:
  • Singleton converters (concepts);
  • BooleanBusyStatusConverter;
  • BooleanToVisibilityConverter;
  • NotConverter;
  • EnumCaptionConverter and EnumDescriptionConverter;
  • NullToVisibilityConverter;
• Delegate commands;
• Resizer control;
• Observers:
  • NotifyCollectionChangedMonitor;

Radical Design

• Design time data: concepts;
• how to;