A popular topic that comes up when talking about MVVM is the use of a ViewModelLocator and the many different ways one can be implemented. Rather than getting into the pros and cons on when or why you should use it, I decided I would just post my version of a simple ViewModelLocator and let those who like it use it, and those who don’t, well you know… :) First, a disclaimer. I have not used this code in a production application, it is just something I was tossing around while reading others’ posts...
Quick Links Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1 Live Demo Source Code Since volcanos are often associated with earthquakes, and vice versa, I decided to show recent volcanic activity on the Earthquake Locator map. I am pulling the data from a website created for a joint project between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the US Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program, found here. They provide a Weekly Volcanic Activity Report as an RSS feed....
Quick Links Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1 Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2 Live Demo Source Code I finally got a live demo up and running! I signed up for a shared hosting account over at discountasp.net so I could post a working version of the Earthquake Locator application, but ran into a few minor issues related to RIA Services. Thankfully, Tim Heuer had already encountered and explained all of the problems I had along...
Quick Links Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2 Live Demo Source Code The recent wave of earthquakes (no pun intended) being reported in the news got me wondering about the frequency and severity of earthquakes around the world. Since I’ve been doing a lot of Silverlight development lately, I decided to scratch my curiosity with a nice little Bing Maps application that will show the location and relative strength of recent seismic activity. Here is a list of technologies this...
On a recent Silverlight project, I was integrating the Bing Maps Control into an application that was using the M-V-VM pattern. I came across this introduction that helped spark my imagination: http://www.jamesrichards.co... While I was adding various shapes to the map control, I ran into an issue when trying to bind to the Stroke property of the MapPolygon or MapPolyline controls as shown...