Apex on dwmkerr.com

Spider Solitaire and Augmented Reality

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:16:20 +0000

A while ago, I made an implementation of Solitaire and Spider Solitaire using WPF and my Apex MVVM library. I wrote about it on the CodeProject, in an article called Solitaire and Spider Solitaire for WPF (imaginative title indeed).

Anyway, just recently I got a very interesting message from rupam rupam, who has made an augmented reality version of the project! In his application, you use your webcam to play the game physically by picking up cards with gestures. Other gestures, like thumbs up and thumbs down are bound to commands in the game - here’s a screenshot:

The project is called GesCard and as far as I know there isn’t a page showing the code - but there are more links on the YouTube video for the page. Check out the YouTube video with the link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCOjuPdBooI. Thanks to rupam for getting in touch and sharing this very cool code!

Apex Part 2 - Adding Commands to an MVVM Application

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:43:00 +0000

In Part 2 of my video tutorial series on using Apex I show you how you can add commands to an MVVM application. Commands let you rapidly add functionality to a ViewModel, whilst still maintaining separation from UI.

A CodeProject article to accompany this video will be published shortly.

Apex Part 1 - Getting Started with the Apex SDK

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:35:00 +0000

Create an MVVM application in minutes with the new Apex SDK!

The video below shows this in action, see what you think.

There is also an accompanying article that describes what's going on. As always, would love to hear feedback!

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/371217/Apex-Part-1-Create-Your-First-MVVM-Application

Apex 1.2 Released

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:31:00 +0000

Apex 1.2 has been released, with some new features:

The ‘Compatibility’ namespace, which contains classes to address compatibility issues between WPF, Silverlight and WP7.
The ‘Asynchronous Command’ object, which provides a powerful way to use Asynchronous Commands in MVVM.

The release is at: https://github.com/dwmkerr/apex