Building a Twitter live search app with Knockout, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 3

It’s not trivial to build a well designed web application front-end with the level of responsiveness, performance and features that users expect today. It’s easy to get lost in the boiling mix of jQuery event handlers, HTML markup and AJAX calls, and even a relatively simple GUI can quickly become a nightmare to maintain. One [...]

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Bind from XAML to property defined in code-behind

A common question among new Silverlight and WPF developers is “How do I bind from XAML to a property in code behind?”. This is something you might want to do to test something or create a quick spike. You’d expect to be able to “just bind” to the property – it is defined in the [...]

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