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Working with a slow development machine can be very frustrating. At least, it frustrates me a lot. During the years I have developed software, I gathered some tweaks to get the best performance out of your build machine. Here are the tips. Keep in mind that in most cases, it’s the hard disk that is ...

Note that while this feature is implemented in Catel, the technology can be implemented by any IoC container. This feature is called "integrity checker" and will ensure you with useful information about type registration paths. This protection mechanism is very useful in complex applications. When p ...

You know this feeling? You are doing the best you can to prevent memory leaks by correctly unsubscribing from all events, and then you hit that object from which you cannot determine the lifetime. Well, you have a few options: Don’t talk about it, maybe your app won’t be used that much so maybe  ...

Catel is an application development platform for C# that was primarily focused on xaml languages (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone). The core however is usable by server implementations as well and more and more extensions are being developed. This blog post will give an introduction to the Unit of W ...

It has been quite a while, but today a new version of Catel is released. It took us more time then usual, but in return we have a great version ready to be downloaded via the site or via NuGet. Added WinRT and Windows Phone 8 support This is probably the most noticeable “feature” of all. Both WinR ...

So, the Windows Phone 8 SDK has shipped, great! I started my dev machine, but walked into a lot of issues. In the end it seemed that the emulator uses Hyper-V, which does not seem to work in virtual machines. However, if you are using VMWare (which I hope you do when running virtual machines), then  ...

You are probably aware of NuGet by now. It is the “new” way to get 3rd party libraries into your software development projects. Since NuGet 2.0, it is possible to use the Package Restore functionality. While NuGet does have its downsides, it is much better than manually checking for updates for all  ...

IntroductionWhen using Silverlight, everything is asynchronous. It seems to be the trend, the same goes for Windows 8. This means that you will need to inform the user about progress in the background.Silverlight uses the BusyIndicator for this behavior. Using MVVM, it might be a bit harder to imple ...

The Catel team is very proud the announce the new 3.2 release. As always, the new version is available via NuGet and via Codeplex (http://catel.codeplex.com). In this blog post, I will try to explain the most important new changes in Catel. Dependency injection support in the ServiceLocator The S ...

So, lots of people came to me asking whether there will be a WinRT version of Catel. First, I said we were seriously considering it. But lately the idea of not supporting it became more and more the idea I wanted to follow.A little historyInstead of going with the flow, let’s first take a look ...