Programming

Ribbon in .NET 4.5 using WPF and MVVM

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I’ve been spending some time recently to learn WPF a bit better including the MVVM pattern to encourage the separation of concerns between the view and the logic behind it.

It’s been a steep learning curve (to say the least!) but today I spent a bit of time looking into getting an Office-esque ribbon bar onto the main window of my dummy application. At first I wasn’t too sure, but I soon realised it’s not too dissimilar to any other button.

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Laptop Shopping

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… it’s just never easy when you’re picky like me.

So as you’ll have noticed from my previous posts, I’ve been using my wife’s Asus 1005P (Atom CPU) and a 7 year old Vaio C2M/W. Over the last month or so I’ve been suffering from a “crisis of confidence” where I’ve been asking how I managed to become a senior developer. After reading Scott Hanselman’s blog on the topic, it seems that it’s a common feeling amongst developers.

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