rapid-prototyping

What's the quickest/easiest way to get example data into ListView/GridView in WPF?

I'm doing some quick design work/rapid prototyping with WPF. I'm curious if anyone has a good strategy for getting example data into a ListView/GridView (or really any ItemsControl for that matter). The example data would either be made up on the fly, or pasted in from somewhere (e.g., an Excel file). ...

Any Other Ideas for prototyping..

I've used Douglass Crockford's Object.beget, but augmented it slightly to: Object.spawn = function (o, spec) { var F = function () {}, that = {}, node = {}; F.prototype = o; that = new F(); for (node in spec) { if (spec.hasOwnProperty(node)) { that[node] = spec[node]; } } return that; }; This way you can "...

Which language for rapid-prototyping of heuristics in combinatorial optimization?

I have to develop a fast heuristic-like algorithm for a hard combinatorial problem. Therefore I think, it would be the best to learn a more expressive language than C++ first for tackling the problem, because I think a lot of different algorithm attempts are needed to solve my assignment. Some personal views about some languages which a...

Multi-target rapid prototyping using Microsoft technologies?

I want rapid prototyping: Quickly define screens, links, buttons etc. I want to easily interact with sample data. I want to see things "moving". An example would be a mail account: I would like to say that a message has a sender, date, subject and content, then say that a "message" screen displays a list of message headers, and clicking...