I use actually Visual Studio and this new fetaures. I effectively like your design and i'm waiting for your newt book ;-)
in waiting such a thing, maybe you could help me on a little problem. I don't want to annoying you with that but if you know...
I take your architecture with Silverlight and I'm stopped by inheritance with the generic class. I 've already make a MASTERPAGE-Like system with silverlight. each new child page is a UserControl in this fondation and I use the WCF service to be able to use my Entity Class Object.
apparently, we can't use abstract class to use the designer in visual studio with generic inheritance...
Code:
namespace App.UI.Silverlight
{
public partial class BasePage: UserControl {}
public partial class BaseEditPage<T> : BasePage where T: WCFService.ENTBaseEO, new() {}
public partial class MySomethingEdit: BaseEditPage<WCFService.ENTSomethingEO> {}
}
for this code, no problem. I think the problem is only the declaration on the XAML file:
Code:
<my:BaseEditPage x:Class="App.UI.Silverlight.MySomethingEdit"
x:TypeArguments="appwcf:ENTSomethingEO"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:my="clr-namespace:App.UI.Silverlight;assembly=MyAppAssembly"
xmlns:mywcf="clr-namespace:App.UI.Silverlight.WCFService;assembly=MyAppAssembly"
mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="640" d:DesignHeight="480" xmlns:data="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data">
<...>
This won't compile. Probably because the hidden file of the xaml (xxxxxx.g.cs) don't generate the GENERIC structure inheritance "BaseEditPage<ENTSomethingEO>". It's always only inheritance from BaseEditPage !
Do you know something about that and eventually, how do you plan to make your design class correspond to WPF design logic ?
To read you,
Patrice
new version of the book ?
2nd Edition of this book ?
Do any one knows when the 2nd Edition of this book is going to be released and what will be new in this book? I have read here that there will be Entity framework and may be WCF but what else... 
and if the author of the book can read this... are you making it compatible with old version in case someone need to migrate?
