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BindingHub - A new component and Design Pattern, very useful in WPF as well as in ViewModels

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14 Jan 2011Eclipse7 min read 82.6K   501   75  
BindingHub is the best thing since sliced bread. After you finish reading this article, you will start wondering how you could survive for so long without BindingHub. I did wonder the same thing after creating it.
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Michael is a software developer who still remembers punch cards, computers with 4 Kbytes RAM, and 3270s. His personal computers were Apple IIe, Commodore, and PC XT (with the whole 640 Kbytes RAM and 2 floppy drives!!!). Wow, that was a powerhouse.

Fast forward 32 years through FORTRAN, PL-I, Algol, Pascal, Prolog, LISP, C, Basic, Clipper, Assembly, FoxPro, DHTML, JavaScript, C++, you name it, to C# 4.0.

Of course, real men use machine code to write software, but what a difference a few years make! No more mallocs and callocs, GC magically collects unused objects, dynamic objects magically call IUnknown::QueryInterface, Reflection magically gives you metadata and even generates help files, WPF magically binds stuff together...

Read some of Michael's articles here.

BindingHub (a WPF component and a design pattern) [^].

Notifying parent of changes to children's properties [^].

Point-In-Time database (coming soon)

Composite Menus and other ItemsControls (coming soon)

Adorners framework (coming soon)

Drag-n-drop data transfer framework (coming soon)

Converters and MarkupExtensions (coming soon)

Download complete WPF library [^].

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