About our flashy diagramming framework for Silverlight, how to bind MySQL data to Silverlight via the Entity Framework and ADO.Net data service, how to demo a WCF bound Silverlight application without IIS or a dedicated webserver. Some news about our latest commercial moves and our sleepless nights.
I have completed a fully functional mindmapping application on top of G2 and have used it in the past months internally for various things. This application is, however, not a 'product' or anything you can buy, it's only a proof of concept.It's a test application, a benchmark, a toy model, a fun thing to play with and see how G2 handles various things. Much like the class designer and the database table designer I talked about earlier, it's a way to show off the potential of G2 to you, even though I think this mindmapping application could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
Wherein I explain how G2 was used to create class diagrams. Some notes on XML (de)serialization of G2 diagrams and the upcoming workflow designer.
Some after thoughts on porting various layout algorithms to WPF, especially with respect to threading and debugging inside VS2008.
This rather long article reviews first the various mechanisms available in .Net to (de)serialize data where after we review the problems and challenges you are faced with when considering (de)serialization in a WPF context and, finally, we explain how we constructed a custom serialization mechanism in GraphSquare.