Laurent Bugnion

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I just pushed a new version of MVVM Light to Nuget. The new version is 4.1.27.0. The difference towards the previous version (4.1.26.1) and this one is…

With Windows 8 RTM out of the doors (at least for some of us), it was also time to create an update to MVVM Light. I selected the V4 RTM to do this…


That is a symbolic milestone: Last week, MVVM Light reached the bar of 120’000 downloads on, the site that has been hosting source and installers since…

I had the chance to be invited to talk at various conferences this year already, and I promised to post the slides and source code, so here it is!

This blog post started as a simple one, but grew to be quite large and time consuming. I am splitting it, because I really want to publish the first…

The current version of MVVM Light had a couple of issues in the project templates. The most annoying one was causing a problem when creating new projects:…

I just pushed two big updates to MVVM Light setup components. Read the rest of this entry »

I was recently made aware of a couple of people having issues with WCF services (or ASP.NET applications) when using the MVVM Light project template for…

I was very optimistic when I first saw Metro style apps coded in C# on Windows 8, because for the most part they are not much different than the well…

In the developer preview of Windows 8, I just noticed a breaking change in the way that data bindings react to the PropertyChanged.aspx) event.

Another quick tip: Most of the interaction with the System.Type class in Windows 8 is now done through the TypeInfo.aspx) class. An instance of TypeInfo…

Last week, Microsoft held their long awaited Build Windows (or simply "Build") conference in Anaheim CA. About 5000 people packed the convention center to…

As usual when I attend a conference, I like to take quick notes to remember what it was all about and take some time later to analyze it. Since Windows 8…

This morning, I published MVVM Light V4 beta1 in the form of an MSI. The installation instructions are detailed on the MVVM Light installation page.…

For a very (too) long time, the installation procedure for MVVM Light sucked. It involved downloading and unzipping files in various locations.…

In MVVM Light V4, I am proposing a new RelayCommand snippet, making it easier to declare and initialize a RelayCommand. I came up with a syntax that…

At IdentityMine, we had the chance to develop a few applications featuring the new Windows Phone 7 features coming up in the update codenamed “Mango”.…

I published the sample code from my presentations about Windows Phone 7 at TechDays Switzerland. I also published the Powerpoint slides on Slideshare…

At MIX11, I am releasing a new preview of MVVM Light version 4. This new preview contains one small change and one large change.

In MVVM applications, it can be a bit of a challenge to send instructions to the view (for example a page) from a viewmodel. Thankfully, we have good…

Often times, you want to take a screenshot of an application’s page. There can be multiple reasons. For instance, you can use this to provide an easy…

Latest update (and hopefully last update): Microsoft has published a few posts to clarify the debate. Please consider the following:

This is a hotfix to correct the issues with the MVVM Light templates for Windows Phone 7. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, I published the source code of the MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7 on Codeplex . Meanwhile, Davide Zordan (the founder of this project)…

When you work with the ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7, you notice very fast that it is not quite a component like the others. For example, the…

Ah, the joy of new releases… You will find that the MVVM Light Toolkit works fine with Visual Studio 2010 RTM and Blend 4 RC except for a few adjustments:

Unfortunately, in the current version of the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight framework, it is not possible to attach any command on the ApplicationBarMenuItem…

Multithreading is supported in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications, however the emulator has a bug (which I discovered and was confirmed to me by the…

I just saw that the video for my MIX10 session is online already! Impressive work, MIX10 team. I also published the sample code on my web server, so here…

V3 of the MVVM Light Toolkit was released during MIX10, after quite a long alpha stage. This post lists the new features in MVVM Light V3.

Often when you write XAML, you wish you could ignore a property temporarily. In code, it is easy to do: Just comment out the line where the property is…

This year has been a pretty amazing year. A few weeks ago, I was writing about my first year at IdentityMine. A little more than one year ago I was…

I am happy and proud to announce that the MVVM Light Toolkit V2 has been published! Read the rest of this entry »

The new version of the MVVM Light Toolkit was just posted. So what is new? Well, to be honest not much. Read the rest of this entry »

I just published a new version of the MVVM Light Toolkit. Read the rest of this entry »

We already talked often about providing design time data to your designers in Windows Presentation Foundation and in Silverlight, thus enabling them to…

At MIX 2009, the Expression Blend team cam up with a new concept called Behaviors. In fact, the only thing new is the way that the Behaviors are packed.…

This is part 2 of a two posts series about the property IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem. In the previous post, we saw what it does in Windows Presentation…

Update: Since then I found a much better tool to geocode pictures and edit other information encoded directly within the picture: Microsoft Pro Photo…

Still busy setting up my Windows 7 partition. Just noticed that Silverlight was pushed to it through Windows Update. Cool.

A few minutes ago, Microsoft released a brand new suite of controls for Silverlight. The list is impressive! From now on, you can download these controls,…

One Tweet by Oliver Sturm (http://twitter.com/olivers) the other day got me to thinking. He was asking about the possibility to host graphics for a web…

The news took the community by surprise and the reactions are overwhelmingly positive: Microsoft is going to ship jQuery with the ASP.NET MVC framework…

Introduction I've been posting a lot about Silverlight lately, but hey, here is a WPF post, and about WPF integration, no less. Note: To fully understand…

I am testing the Mozy backup service that was praised by many lately. It's not bad so far, but I am a bit disappointed that it doesn't work when I am…

I posted a 50 minutes screencast on my website, with a demo involving Expression Design, Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2008 to demonstrate the…

\[UPDATE: The link to the VS2008 project was broken. Sorry for that\] I just published an article I have been working on for a few days, based on a…

A new role It's hard to believe, but it's true, it has been already one week since I came back from MIX. During this week, I have been so busy with the…

In ASP.NET, we learned that it is often interesting to inherit from another class than from System.Web.UI.Page. This allows to define common methods, such…

I only recently became aware of another breaking change in ASP.NET 2.0: In order to optimize session state management, some changes have been implemented.…