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Man is our Mandarin rusty! Our friends over at Mobile Android China seem to have of the first live photos of the Motorola Sholes Tablet (codename). The specs that we've been given to mull over are pretty impressive: 550MHz OMAP TI 3430 processor (same as the DROID), 3.7″ touch screen, 800 x 480 resolution, HDMI port, 3.5mm headset jack, UMTS/HSPA, 8 megapixel camera, and a xenon flash; all running on Android 2.0, probably 2.1 at time of launch. While we're not exactly thrilled with the blue soft touch finish on the back of the device — Napoleon came and went — we hope this little number makes its way out of Motorola's R&D department and onto the market here in the States soon, 'cause we likey.Read
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http://www.motorolazine.biz MotoZine
Snapdragon + Processor 1 Ghz = Price will high.
Toshiba TG01 has price more than USD 1,000
SE XPeria X10 rumour price USD 999.
Speed not so fast like Motorola Droid / Milestone. We can look / compare with Toshiba TG01. -
Verizon Guy
Get used to seeing HDMI ports on VZW handsets in 2010…DLNA here we come!
I am curious as to some of the uses of a HDMI port on a phone for you average consumer? Not bashing, really, give me some advantages…I am really curious?
These phones are now HD multimedia devices. Being such it makes sense that you could show a video contained on the device to a TV.
Netflix stream via wifi in the future. (in 720p hopefully)
I have hundreds of videos on my android. i could show them on the TV instead of the Computer. -
I just cant believe that we now have more information about a sholes tablet than we do about the HTC Passion which was supposed to come out during the 2009 holiday season. Starting to believe the Passion doesnt exist.
Cliq, really? That phone is a joke even to the upcoming Motorola Calgary on VZW, and vzw has four other Moto phones, but that is history, I said Lately(meaning now and up and coming phones)…ooohh T-Mob has the Cliq, great commercial, not so good phone.
Calgary and Cliq are almost the exact same phone spec wise.
Number of moto phones doesn't really point out much either. T-mobile has 3 right now and in the past had some of Moto's more flagship phones including the ZN5 which was a big push for them at one point and the Sidekick Slide.
Plus the radio specs throw VZW out the window.
What I was more talking about with the Cliq and Calgary was the build of the phone. Maybe i am mistaken, but the build of the Cliq is closer to say a Samsung Rogue (not a bad phone) and the Calgary is closer to the Droid but aimed at a younger crowd. I have a Droid now and I have never felt a better made smartphone ever. And like I said earlier, I beleive this is T-Mob Europe. So this would be the GSM Europe version, and there should be only be a CDMA version here in the states, unless VZW only cared about getting exclusivity on the first Droid because they knew the Passion was coming, then T-Mob USA may get it too. I just think it is less likely, but it would sure help T-Mob with a nice Premium handset like this. Plus, arent they getting touch hd2 also??
No the build of the of the Calgary is supposed to be pretty shitty. You're right, both are cheap build targeted at younger (cheaper) markets.
There is nothing one way or another to point to it definitively VZW. You may be right there could be a CDMA variant out there but there isn't any reason to really believe that. If you look at the roadmap that leaked all of these phones one is T-mobile, one is VZW, and one looks to be AT&T. Then there is this one and a 5th that we haven't heard anything else about.
VZW seems perfectly content to let Droid be their flagship but they're obviously releasing "droid" handsets from other manufactures (HTC and that weird one that no one has ever heard of). Its perfectly possible they don't want another flagship to cannibalize sales and thats all the more reason they're not going to get this phone.
Yes, T-mob USA is also rumored to be getting hd2 and the n900. They've got plenty of room in their line up for those and this though. After starting the android phones they haven't had a flagship one for awhile.
This seems like slightly odd logic, you say that Verizon doesn't have room in their lineup for a new flagship phone probably 3 months after the Droid release and yet T-Mob USA has room for 3 flagship devices that are all scheduled for similar release dates?
Well t-mobile has a lot of room in their line up.
The closest flagship they have is either a 2 year old android handset or a 1 year old android handset with 2 year old specs.
Its admittdly a bit of a flip. I used to think that T-mobile had a pretty strong line up but they've fallen behind a bit.
I don't think its odd for them to have a solid Windows phone, a solid Meamo (sp?) phone and a new solid android phone.
VZW on the other hand has most of those slots covered and multiple rumors of more good offerings coming up.
I realize T-Mob has no real flagship right now, that is exactly the problem with the assumption that they would suddenly obtain 3 all within a couple months of one another, why would HTC, Nokia, and Motorola all go with the 4th largest carrier in the U.S. with their flagship devices all at once. Verizon has double T-Mobs customers so can much more easily accommodate multiple flagship devices.
'Cause it isn't a matter of them going to T-mobile its a matter of T-mobile going to them.
Regardless of how much "sense" it may make thats certainly the way the rumors are going.
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My pants just got a little messy.
joe cool
i think q3 cause u know apple will have a new iphone so this could compete
No, that is not a stylus, by the hdmi port. It's for a lanyard. Wearing phones around your neck is huge in Asia. We have "ice", they have phones.
Phone does seem a bit thick, bit if it doesn't have that chin at the end and no qwerty slideout, I think it will be a welcome change. Hard to tell the thickness in these Lil snapshots anyways.
Just returned my Droid. Got it on launch day. Had horrible reception l, in places my POS Pearl (also Verizon) had it. Also, kept force closing apps all the time. Both 1st and 3rd party ones. Yes, I used the task manager…. Like a mo fo.
Both keyboards were ass on it too. The onscreen one, required you to be so precise with key presses, not to mention there was no option to turn off haptic feedback, when using the phone dialer.
Sexy screen, great video, but the form factor, reception and software were subpar.
I have the umost confidence in Motos comeback and I presume some if not all of my software gripes will be addressed, come the rumored December 11th software update.
Ps, Glansburg, no one likes you. Go back to drawing pictures of dicks all day with Seth.
I was trying to use the 3.5 jack as reference.
It takes up almost the entire depth of the phone where as if you look at a Droid its about half (the keyboard half).
It is tough to tell on these little shots but I think its going to be quite the thin handset.
Good to see Moto coming back.
Nice review. Very glad to hear about the 8mp camera!!! Finally Moto is giving a little attention to camera.
So we should expect something hilarious from 8mpx in Moto?? I have a lot of Moto's in past and I have to say that SE have better camera (I mean 3 and 2 mpx) but its only my objections.Maybe 8mpx will be breakthrough . I have n97 but I'm not using it to take pics, maybe sometimes. BTW anyone know why my n97 takes pictures with some light shining, it looks like I catch some ghost on my pictures and I can actually use them in any way … I think its time for new phone
http://www.motorolazine.biz MotoZine
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Motorola Invests in Sensitive Object
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To: email@example.com, Ill. and PARIS, Dec 03, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that Motorola Ventures, the company's strategic venture capital arm, made an investment in Sensitive Object, a leader in multi-touch anywhere platforms and natural user interface (NUI).
The company was created in October 2003 with an innovative and patent-protected technology capable of "tactilizing" any surface. This unique software technology leverages acoustics to analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device. Sensitive Object's ReverSys((R)) software can be deployed in any product benefiting from "touch-based" user interfaces including touch screen and touch control in various markets such as mobile devices.
Sensitive Object's Anywhere MultiTouch(TM) platform extends tactilization to any surface of a device allowing for virtual controls and next generation user-interfaces. As touch and haptics have become standard interaction expectations for personal computing and handheld devices, Sensitive Object demonstrates that acoustic (vs. resistive, capacitive, and optical) tactilization is the state of the art in terms of both performance and cost, and its platform will set a new standard for full 3D device tactilization.
"Natural user interface (NUI) and in particular interacting with a device through touch is an area of rapid development and great excitement," said Reese Schroeder, managing director, Motorola Ventures. "Sensitive Object provides an innovative and unique approach allowing new ways of interaction. We're most excited to be involved in their growth and success."
"We are excited to be working closely with the Motorola team. Motorola is a perfect partner for our disruptive touch solution considering Motorola's innovative and successful history with mobile phones," said Herve Martin, chief executive officer of Sensitive Object.
About Sensitive Object
Sensitive Object is a spin-off from the French Science National Research Centre (CNRS). Sensitive Object has been created in October 2003 and by August 2004 has received funding to speed up its development from Sofinnova Partners, a venture capital firm. Sensitive Object has a workforce of more than 20 engineers and has operations in Paris and Singapore. For more information please visit http://www.sensitive-object.com.
I don't read Mandarin, but the website after the jump mentions "…Android 2.0…Motoblur UI…" Is this going to be the default interface?
http://www.motorolazine.biz MotoZine
Yes, UI Motorola Blur is default for Motorola Sholes Tablet but is same like Motorola CLIQ / DEXT also can use customize UI.
Here are some better pics of the Sholes as reported first on androidin.net
http://www.stateyourbeef.com/ State Your Beef
what are we using the hdmi for?


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Look up spastic or spaz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
The word spastic is used differently depending on location, which has led to some controversy and misunderstanding. Derived via Latin from the Greek spastikos ("drawing in" or "tugging"), the word originally referred to a change in muscles affected by the medical condition spasticity, which is seen in spastic diplegia and many other forms of cerebral palsy and in terms such as "spastic colon", with no negative connotation, as it is accurately descriptive of the condition. In India the word "spastic" is also used neutrally, with The Spastics Society of India non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO), working for neuro-muscular and developmental disabilities.[citation needed]
The word in common speech can also be used in a pejorative context. The level of severity depends on whether one understands it as it is used in the United States or the United Kingdom.[1] In the UK it is considered an offensive way to refer to disabled people.[2]
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United Kingdom and Ireland[edit]
The medical term "spastic" became used to describe cerebral palsy.[citation needed] The Spastics Society, a UK charity for people with cerebral palsy, was founded in 1951.
However, the word began to be used as an insult and became a term of abuse used to imply stupidity or physical ineptness: one who is uncoordinated or incompetent, or a fool.[3] It was often colloquially abbreviated to shorter forms such as "spaz". As a neighbouring English-speaking country, the insult spread to Ireland also and became one of the most prominent and insulting terms used in playgrounds.[citation needed]
Its derogatory use grew considerably in the 1980s.[citation needed] This is sometimes attributed to the BBC children's show Blue Peter. During the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981), several episodes featured a man with cerebral palsy (described as a "spastic") named Joey Deacon. Phrases such as "joey", "deacon", and "spaz" became popular insults amongst children at that time.[4]
The Spastics Society changed its name to Scope in 1994. The words then gradually dropped out of common usage as the majority of British society came to regard them as offensive and politically incorrect.[citation needed]
The current understanding of the word is well-illustrated by a BBC survey in 2003, which found that "spastic" was the second most offensive term in the UK relating to disability (retard was deemed most offensive).[2] In 2007, Lynne Murphy, a linguist at the University of Sussex, described the term as being "one of the most taboo insults to a British ear".[1]
United States[edit]
In American slang, the term "spaz" is largely inoffensive, and is generally understood as a casual word for clumsiness, sometimes associated with overexcitability, excessive startle response ("jumpiness"), excessive energy, or hyperactivity. Its usage has been documented as far back as the mid-1950s.[5] In 1965, film critic Pauline Kael, explained to her readers, "The term that American teenagers now use as the opposite of 'tough' is 'spaz'. A spaz is a person who is courteous to teachers, plans for a career, and believes in official values. A spaz is something like what adults still call a square."[5] The New York Times columnist similarly explained to readers that spaz meant "You're strictly from 23-skidoo."[5] Benjamin Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research in Cognitive Sciences, writes that by the mid-1960s the American usage of the term spaz shifted from "its original sense of 'spastic or physically uncoordinated person' to something more like 'nerdy, weird or uncool person.'"[6] By contrast, in a June 2005 newsletter for "American Dialect Society", Zimmer reports that the "earliest [written] occurrence of uncoordinated "spaz" (as opposed to uncool "spaz")?" is found in The Elastik Band's 1967 "undeniably tasteless garage-rock single" "Spazz".[7]
Later in 1978, Steve Martin introduced a character Charles Knerlman, aka "Chaz the Spaz" on Saturday Night Live, in a skit with Bill Murray called "Nerds". Bill Murray later starred in the movie Meatballs which had a character named "Spaz."[8] Both shows portrayed a spaz as a nerd or somebody uncool in a comic setting. Thus, while Blue Peter shaped the modern British understanding of the term, American viewers were being bombarded with a different image.[5] In time, the term spaz, like its counterparts nerd and geek, lost its offensive nature and evolved into a term often used in self-deprecation.
The term occasionally appears in other North American movies or TV series such as Friends and receives a different reaction from British and American audiences. In one episode, Rachel refers to herself as a "laundry spaz" due to her inability to do the laundry. This comment was deemed offensive enough by the British Board of Film Classification to give the episode a 12 rating. Other episodes in the series are rated a step lower at PG.[9]
The difference in understanding of the term between British and American audiences was highlighted by an incident with the golfer Tiger Woods; after losing the US Masters Tournament in 2006, he said, "I was so in control from tee to green, the best I've played for years... But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz." His remarks were broadcast and drew no attention in America. But they were widely reported in Britain, where they caused offence and were condemned by a representative of Scope and Tanni Grey-Thompson, a prominent paralympian. On learning of the furor over his comments, Woods' representative promptly apologized.[10][11]
"Spaz" products[edit]
Multiple products in America use the word Spaz as part of their name.
Controversy arises if products are sold in the UK under the same name. In particular the manufacturers and importers of the Spazz wheelchair were criticised by the British charity Scope when they put the wheelchair on sale in the UK. Scope expressed a fear that the usage of the word as an insult would increase again, after a steady decline since the 1980s.[12]
A caffeinated lipbalm created by a police officer is called "SpazzStick." [13] "Spaz-Stix" is a company that produces high end remote control car/plane paints.
An energy drink is called "Spaz Juice" and has a slogan, "all the energy you need to annoy everybody else."[14]
The Transformers Power Core Combiners line of robot toys includes a character named "Spastic". Hasbro, the makers of Transformers, said that it would not release "Spastic" in the UK. This did not stop vocal British fans from alerting various news outlets, eventually resulting in the name being changed for all markets to the less-offensive "Over-Run." The on-box biography for the Transformers toy called Strafe described him as "spastic" in early releases, but when the controversy erupted about the word, they changed the word to "twitchy."
On June 29, 2007, Ubisoft of France pulled one of their games called Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach, for referring to players who did not perform well at the game as "Super Spastic". The company stated "As soon as we were made aware of the issue we stopped distribution of the product and are now working with retailers to pull the game off the market." [15] Similarly, Nintendo recalled Mario Party 8 in the UK after releasing a version containing the line "turn the train spastic" in its dialogue.[16]
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- ^ a b Murphy, M Lynne (2007-02-28). "spastic, learning disability". Separated by a Common Language. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
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Paging Your Results In part one of this series I gave an overview of data binding lists in WPF. In part two, I showed how to asynchronously consume a WCF service so that your WPF user interface remained responsive. In this post, I'm going show an example for paging your results to control the message size and to get results to the client faster.
Let's Get Started In the last post, I mentioned that eventually your result set will grow large enough that the default WCF configuration will prevent your message from being received. With the default settings, once the size of the message exceeds ~65K, you will receive this exception:
"The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element."
The simplest fix is to increase the quota for MaxRecievedMessageSize in the client's service configuration. This is only a temporary fix as eventually your message size may exceed the new limit. To help control the message size, a service should allow the client to page large sets of data.
Update the Service To enable the client to page data, we need to allow them to specify a record offset and a page size. I prefer the LINQ to SQL terms "Skip" and "Take". Skip is the zero-based record offset and Take is the maximum number of records per page. An alternative would be to specify a page size and page index, but I prefer the Skip-Take approach because it allows me to dynamically change the page size to control perceived performance.
So the first change to our NutrientDB service is to add a data contract to describe paging context.
public class PagingContext
public long Skip { get; set; }
public int Take { get; set; }
Next we add the PagingContext to our GetAllFoodsRequest.
public class GetAllFoodsRequest
public PagingContext PageInfo { get; set; }
Then we add the PagingContext to GetAllFoodsResponse. This allows a consumer of the service to know which page of results are being returned.
[MessageContract(WrapperNamespace = ServiceConstants.NAMESPACE)]
public class GetAllFoodsResponse
public IEnumerable<Food> Results { get; set; }
And finally, update our service operation to implement the paging.
public GetAllFoodsResponse GetAllFoods(GetAllFoodsRequest request)
if (request == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("request"); }
PagingContext ctx = request.PageInfo
?? new PagingContext() {Skip = 0, Take = int.MaxValue};
return new GetAllFoodsResponse()
Results = NutrientDataAccess.GetAllFoods(ctx.Skip, ctx.Take),
PageInfo = ctx
Update the Client In the WPF client project, I right-click my service reference and choose "Update Service Reference". This will break my existing code since the message contracts for my service changed. I now have to specify a PagingContext to the GetAllFoods methods. Also, I removed the 100 record limit from the database – it now returns the full ~7500 records.
Returning ~7500 Food objects in one request would throw the MaxReceivedMessageSize quota exception mentioned above. To prevent this (without having to update the client service configuration,) I update the client to retrieve all Food objects from the service 100 records at a time. I want to do this asynchronously so that the UI remains responsive.
private void LoadWCFAsync_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
NutrientDBClient client = new NutrientDBClient();
client.GetAllFoodsCompleted +=
new EventHandler<GetAllFoodsCompletedEventArgs>(
// Assign a new ObservableCollection to the ListView;
// When items are later added to the ObservableCollection,
// the ListView will automatically display them.
_foodItems = new ObservableCollection<Food>();
FoodList.ItemsSource = _foodItems;
// Request the first 100 Food objects
var pageInfo = new PagingContext() {Skip = 0, Take = 100};
void client_GetAllFoodsCompleted(object sender, GetAllFoodsCompletedEventArgs e)
NutrientDBClient client = (NutrientDBClient)sender;
if (e.Error == null)
// Use the PagingContext from the response to determine
// if this is the last page of results
PagingContext pageInfo = e.Result;
if (e.Results.Length < pageInfo.Take)
// Request the next 100 Food objects asynchronously
pageInfo.Skip += e.Results.Length;
// Update the ObservableCollection<Food> that has been
// data bound to the ItemsSource property of the ListView.
// Because _foodItems is an ObservableCollection, WPF will
// automatically update the ListView with the new items.
foreach (var food in e.Results)
Now, instead of waiting for all 7539 records to load before beginning their work, a user can begin to browse the Food items after the first 100 results are returned. I load all pages at once, but this code could be easily modified to only request the next page when the user scrolls near the bottom of the list. Another modification that you might want to make is to request a smaller first page and larger subsequent pages. This would improve the perceived performance since the user will nearly instantly see their first page of results.
Summary In this post I showed how you can add paging to your services to give clients better control over message size. At the end I touched on how paging can enable you to solve our third problem with large lists - "A noticeable delay to load data will begin to slow your users down."
In the final post of this series, I will take this example to the next level to show how to abstract the paging logic out of your UI code, making it easily usable from anywhere in your client application.
Source code for this post can be downloaded here.
Tags: xaml; c#; .net; wpf; wcf;
Welcome Back In part one of this four-part series, I showed how data binding to list controls works in WPF. This post will show you how to build a simple WCF service to serve up a list of Food objects. I will then show some patterns for dealing with large lists of items.
Building the Food Service For detailed instructions on building a WCF service, you can download my WCF presentation materials and follow the source code and slides or lookup any of the many tutorials elsewhere. This series of posts will focus mainly on the message contracts for lists.
The NutrientDB service will expose a GetAllFoods operation that will return all of the Food objects in the nutrient database. I will start with a small set of Food objects, and then increase the size of the database to illustrate some of the issues that you need to consider for large sets of data.
Starting Simple The simplest approach is to have your message contract return an IEnumerable<T> of your objects.
// Server-side code
Clients of the service simply ask for all of the Food objects in the database and the service returns them all at once.
// Client-side code
private void LoadWCF_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
_foodItems = client.GetAllFoods();
The problems with this approach usually aren't visible with small sets of data and low network latency. However, as the data set increases and/or network speeds decrease (i.e. deploy your service to the internet) some problems will begin to present themselves. The three main problems are:
Let's resolve the first problem now.
The UI will "lock up" In WPF the user interface executes on it's own thread. This thread is managed by an object called the Dispatcher. The Dispatcher is used to synchronize calls on the UI thread. When an event, such as a button click, is fired the event handler code is running on the UI thread. When our long-running WCF call is made on the UI thread, other UI operations are blocked from executing. This means that redrawing of the window, scrolling, and clicking all have to wait for your WCF request to complete. Additionally, WPF requires that any updates to the UI happen on the Dispatcher thread.
To solve this problem we need a way to offload the WCF request to a non-UI thread, then return back to the UI thread to update the ListView. Built into the Visual Studio 2008 service proxy generator is a setting to create asynchronous methods for each service operation. To get to this setting: right-click your service reference > choose "Configure Service Reference" > check "Generate asynchronous operations" > click OK.
When you do this Visual Studio will rebuild your proxies with four new members: BeginGetAllFoods(), EndGetAllFoods(), and GetAllFoodsAsync() methods, as well as a GetAllFoodsCompleted event. This gives you two options for calling WCF services asynchronously: BeginGetAllFoods() and EndGetAllFoods() are used together and GetAllFoodsAsync() and GetAllFoodsCompleted are used together. I'll demonstrate the latter.
_foodItems = e.Result;
else { MessageBox.Show(e.Error.Message); }
Now when I increase the number of foods in the database to 100 and run the program, there is short delay while I wait for data to come back, but the UI is responsive the whole time. When the GetAllFoodsCompleted event handler, client_GetAllFoodsCompleted(), is called we are already back on the UI thread, so I do not have to worry about managing thread synchronization.
Summary In this post, I started with a very simple implementation of a WCF service that returned a set of Food objects. I pointed out tree problems with the simple solution: Unresponsive UI, excessive message size, and a noticeable delay to display results. I provided a solution to the unresponsive UI by generating asynchronous proxy methods and invoking the WCF calls on a non-UI thread. I will address the last two problems in parts three and four.
Tags: wcf; wpf; .net; c#; xaml
Introduction to series Welcome to part one of a four-part series on managing large lists in WPF and WCF. In this series, I will walk you through some of the design considerations for building snappy WPF/WCF solutions. Although this series specifically addresses WPF and WCF, it's concepts are applicable to Silverlight and other client and service frameworks.
Part one of the series illustrates the basics of WPF data binding; specifically binding to lists of objects.
List-based WPF Controls ListView, ListBox, ItemsControl, ComboBox, DataGrid, and others. List-based controls are bound to an object that implements IEnumerable via the list control's ItemSource property.
<ListView x:Name="FoodList"
Grid.Row="1" >
// Binding the ListView to List<Food>
_foodItems = GetLocalFoodItems();
ItemTemplate By default, list controls will display the result of Object.ToString(). To customize the display of your objects you use the ItemTemplate.
<Label Content="{Binding Id}" />
<Label Content="{Binding Description}" />
Adding items to the list with ObservableCollection<T> Currently our ListView is data bound to a List<Food> object. When new Food objects are added directly to the List<Food>, we would like for them to automatically show up in the ListView. Unfortunately the ListView's binding has no way to detect when items are added to the List<Food>, so the bound list is now out of sync with the list of items displayed in the UI.
We could manually synchronize this ourselves, but that seems like a lot of work. Fortunately, the DataBinding architecture in WPF has a built-in mechanism to do this for us. WPF watches for two interfaces that enable it to keep its bindings synchronized: INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged. Both of these interfaces expose events that WPF listens for to update UI components with state changes.
In the System.Collections.ObjectModel (WindowsBase.dll) namespace ObservableCollection<T> is a generic collection that implements both of these interfaces. If we replace our List<Food> with an ObservableCollection<Food>, adding items to the ObservableCollection will now automatically update the UI.
// Add a new Food object to the ObservableCollection<Food>.
// This will automatically update the ListView.
new Food() { Id = ++_id, Description = "Bacon" }
If you're unfamiliar or only somewhat familiar with Generic types in the .NET framework, you may be wondering about the <T> syntax. Version 2.0 of the .NET framework introduced Generic Types. These are types that accept a type parameter so that they can provide strongly typed operations where a System.Object would have been required previously.
When reading the statement List<T>, you say "List of T", where T is a type parameter for some other type. So List<Food> is read "List of Food".
Summary In this post, you saw an example of data binding a collection of objects to the WPF ListView control. I showed how to customize the UI of the control by overriding the ItemTemplate. Then I illustrated the different behavior between binding the ListView controls ItemsSource property to List<T> versus an ObservableCollection<T>. These techniques work for all of the WPF list controls.
In part one of the series, the data source was a hard-coded list of Food objects. In part two, I will build a simple WCF service that will serve up Food objects and show some patterns that can be used to maintain a responsive UI when loading large lists of objects.
The source for part one can be downloaded here.
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The group flight arrives in Amritsar. Those not travelling on the group flight will meet us at the hotel. In the evening there will be an opportunity to visit the famed Golden Temple of the Sikhs and witness the night ceremonies in which the scriptures are put away.
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Today we have the opportunity to visit the Qusar Tibetan Healing Centre to consult the resident doctors and see Tibetan medicines being made. Later, we will take a walk through the wheat fields to Nishtha Rural Health, Education and Environment Centre, an NGO working with local Indian villagers.
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Day 13
Today we take a pleasant drive through the Kangra Valley to Taragarh, beyond the tea-growing town of Palampur. Our hotel used to be the country house of the erstwhile royal family of Kashmir as the memorabilia and extensive gardens remind us. Nearby is Tashi Jong a community of Tibetans from Kham, Eastern Tibet, who support themselves and their monastery through various craft works.
Day 14
In the forest near Bir is Sherabling Monastery, with its richly decorated temple, established by Tai Situ Rinpoche, one the Karmapa's principle teachers. In Bir are several more Tibetan monasteries. Closer to Taragarh, time permitiing we may visit Dongyu Gatsal Ling, a nunnery set up for Himalayan nuns of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage by Jetsun Tenzin Palmo an expeienced English Buddhist nun.
Day 15
Leaving Taragarh we return to Mcleod Ganj to be able to attend the Tibet Uprising day events tomorrow. There will be time for any last minute shopping.
Day 16
We join the Tibetan public to hear the elected leader of the Tibetan Exile Community's address in the Dalai Lama's presence at the commemoration of the failed Lhasa Uprising, following which the Dalai Lama and thousands of followers escaped into exile. The Tibetan National Anthem is sung after the series of speeches and solemn Tibetan patriots march through the town. After the ceremony we transfer back to Amritsar.
Day 17
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Her life has been completely transformed since she had a double lung transplant in 2009.
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Contrary to the stereotypes, it is possible to do business in Africa without paying bribes or being drawn into any other form of corruption.
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Myburgh says BDO has assisted a large number of clients from across the globe to set up and operate in Africa, including in countries at the bottom of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Interestingly enough, the people who initiate a corrupt encounter are not always the locals but investors themselves.
"First of all, some companies simply assume that you must bribe from the start so they go in with the mindset that bribery is the 'African way'," Myburgh says. "Secondly, they go in without preparing properly and with unrealistic expectations, which opens the door for bribery and corruption."
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Nicklas Backstrom insisted he wasn't thinking about making plans in the event of a potential NHL lockout. But Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin made it clear he has.
"Of course I think about it because my hometown have teams and my Russian Federation have a league. Of course I'm probably going to be there. But I don't want to be there; I want to be here," Ovechkin said in a conversation with beat reporters Tuesday. "But, again, my contract is here and I hope the NHL and NHLPA are going to sign a deal before the 15th."
The NHL's current collective bargaining agreement expires at 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 15, and a lockout is looming unless owners and the Players' Association can get a deal done. With no talks planned for this week, a work stoppage is looking increasingly likely.
And while some have shrugged off what a lockout could mean, focusing energy on hockey and getting ready, Ovechkin is involved and has strong opinions on the issues.
"If it's going to be lockout, there's going be lockout. We're ready for that," Ovechkin said. "If [we were] not ready we'd probably sign that kind of paper [offer] what they give us. But we're ready and we're not going to give up."
One of the concerns from former players like Caps associate goaltending coach Olie Kolzig about the 2004-05 lockout was that the NHLPA didn't have a Plan B when owners didn't budge on demands.
Ovechkin, Backstrom (and last week ex-Caps now New York Rangers forward Jeff Halpern) expressed confidence in NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr and a steadfast belief that players want what's good for hockey.
"I think he wants to communicate and make the league better for both partners," Backstrom said. "That's something that the NHL doesn't want to do, I think."
The owners' first offer reportedly included cutting the players' share of hockey-related revenue from 57 percent to 43-46 percent, depending on the definition of that money. In essence, it could mean players league-wide taking a significant cut in salaries.
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