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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.

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.

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 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