Incremental Developments

Just a small observation based on a bit of reading I’ve been doing around the tradeoffs between having your view model (or it’s attached model) implement  INotifyPropertyChanged v Deriving from DependencyObject and implementing dependency properties.

It’s not about the issue it’s self, but the attitude of some of the posts: Those which worry me seem to argue for an overall “best solution”.

Both techniques work, and they have different pros and cons. (see google for many opinions)

So what worries me is that unless you consider your choice in the context of your specific implementation, you could end up down the wrong track…

It’s kind of like asking which is the best: Bubble sort or Quicksort?

Oh sorry, I forgot to mention it’s an embedded sytem short of memory, and the data array is ordered apart from a few well separated pairs of consecutive items that are out of order…

So in the WPF context, you maight need the property to animate say, or it your view model needs to derive from another class….

It seems to me that it it better to keep the differences in mind and decide in the context of the property you are implementing…

I’ve been thinking about what I’ll put on this blog, and I think the first thing I need is a quick reference to all the bits of dot net that I don’t use all the time. Hopefully it may be of some use to others.

I’ll put up any useful tutorials, and reviews of any useful tools that come up too.

Probably a quick cheat sheet for the managed commands in windbg would be a good stat.

Hi

This is the new blog for Incremental Developments Ltd. We just moved internet provider, and surprisingly mail is already working. The company never had a website in the past, principally because we never had the time to maintain it.

Well all that should be changing…

Since we are primarily a couple of contractors, company news per say would be a tad boring. so we hope to fill the blog with interesting technical articles on both software development (myself, David Hewitt) and large scale programme management (my wife Sheila Hewitt)