Declarative ComboBoxes in XAML

Posted by: on | Tuesday, October 30, 2012     Comments

Developing in XAML (Windows 8, Silverlight, Windows Phone, or WPF) gives you a powerful combination of declarative markup with databinding, but one shortcoming I often come up against is the ability to build simple ComboBox elements declaratively with both Content and Values.
If you are familiar with HTML, you know that you can use a select tag to pair the display name with a key value, such as:

<select>
  <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
  <option value="saab">Saab</option>
  <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
  <option value...

A Salute to the Falafel Rock Stars

Posted by: on | Friday, October 05, 2012     Comments

Every year, October kicks off a very busy season at Falafel : “Conference Season”. Multiple members of the team travel across the country and around world to share their expertise on a number of technologies. All Falafel Software team members spend their days, and often their nights, helping design and build cutting edge solutions for our customers. Their technical presentations draw from these real world experiences and are assembled, practiced, and presented in what little spare time they have. That’s why we call them “Rock Stars”.

This weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp, Falafel’s entire team from around the ...

Windows 8 Unleashed - Mountain View

Posted by: on | Thursday, September 27, 2012     Comments

John Waters is at it again. The Falafel Software President and CTO has been spreading the Windows 8 love all over the country. This Saturday you can catch him teaching the Windows 8 Unleashed event at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California.

Windows 8 Unleashed is a free event and a great opportunity for experienced .NET developers and novices alike. You'll listen. You'll learn. You'll build....and you might even win some money in the hack-a-thon.

To learn more and register, visit : http://win8unleasheddojo.eventbrite.com/

EventBoard in the Windows 8 Store

Posted by: on | Thursday, August 16, 2012     Comments

Microsoft officially released Windows 8 to the public yesterday and one of the first applications you can download from the Windows 8 store comes from Falafel Software. It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce the availability of EventBoard for Windows 8! Early adopters of Windows tablets will love the new Modern UI style interface, complete with all the Windows 8 bells and whistles. Semantic zoom, share charm integration, snapping, notifications and more will make navigating any conference a breeze. We encourage you to download it and try it out for yourself.

EventBoard for Windows 8 is ...