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Using IActiveAware and INavigationAware

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[Concrete/Little bit interesting] The Microsoft Prism framework provides a couple of very useful interfaces for managing awareness of view activation and navigation.       IActiveAware IActiveAware is a simple interface you can implement on your views to indicate that you want the view to be notified when it is made active or inactive. It looks like this: public interface IActiveAware { /// <summary> /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether the object is active. /// </summary> /// <value><see langword="true" /> if the object is active; otherwise <see langword="false" />.</value> bool IsActive { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Notifies that the value for <see cref="IsActive"/> property has changed. /// </summary> event EventHandler IsActiveChanged; } The IsActive flag lets you know if your view is active, and the IsActiveChanged event will f

This is a test Article on the blog

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[Concrete/Interesting]   Here is a picture Like it?     Actually, this is a test for using Windows Live Writer to publish to SharePoint Wiki. Which sounds easy, but you guessed it, it’s not. I’ll let you know how I get on. Frankly, it’s all rather disappointing. I guess someone at Microsoft, looking to make SharePoint a little more useful thought “well it’s good at lists and HTML docs, if you add a template with an on-page editor, hey presto, you’ve got a Wiki”. Only, it’s not that simple and the editor is far too lightweight. Windows Live Write (WLW) on the other hand is a well thought out, powerful tool. Clearly the best Blog editor in my mind. It’s the reason I have a Windows VM on my Mac. So I gave it a go and WLW doesn’t want to talk to the Wiki because it’s not a blog, doesn’t support the APIs, just a list with an editor. However, it was suggested that I could author my pages against my SharePoint blog. Great. It worked brilliantly. WLW talks to SharePoint