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Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.   ...

Author: BradA Date: 08/21/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. This time I take up...

Author: BradA Date: 08/11/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data

Wow – the gift that keeps giving.. I am still having fun updating my my simple Mix 09 Business...

Author: BradA Date: 08/10/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application...

Author: BradA Date: 08/07/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I...

Author: BradA Date: 08/05/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...

Author: BradA Date: 08/04/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”.  So far in this...

Author: BradA Date: 08/03/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary

*** Notice: I will be updating these over the next few weeks for Silverlight 4 beta, RIA Services...

Author: BradA Date: 08/02/2009

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered!

Recently David Poll posted a very cool technique for navigating to dynamically loaded pages and on...

Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo....

Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009

LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation – Demo Posted

I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users’ Group meeting… the only down side is that I missed the...

Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...

Author: BradA Date: 07/30/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support

A few folks commented that they’d like to see something in my series updating my Mix09 talk...

Author: BradA Date: 07/29/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project

Well… this has been one of the longer blog series I have done, but there is so much meat here! Maybe...

Author: BradA Date: 07/28/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Many customers have...

Author: BradA Date: 07/27/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World

I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as...

Author: BradA Date: 07/24/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...

Author: BradA Date: 07/23/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider

I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business...

Author: BradA Date: 07/22/2009

Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross

I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does...

Author: BradA Date: 07/22/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my  Mix09 talk “building business applications...

Author: BradA Date: 07/21/2009

Simple Example of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight

As you may have heard, we recently shipped MEF support of Silverlight in our CodePlex drop.. I...

Author: BradA Date: 07/20/2009

LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation

On July 30th @ 8pm  I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group.  I...

Author: BradA Date: 07/19/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source

More updates on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...

Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)

I have gotten some great questions on my series so far… A couple of readers noted that it was not...

Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms

Even more update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Now for some...

Author: BradA Date: 07/15/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...

Author: BradA Date: 07/14/2009

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!

Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex.  Not only is this the feature complete build for...

Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009

Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App

Want a quick reference and simple example of how to use all the cool controls in Silverlight...

Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication

More update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...

Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 2: Rich Data Query

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and  the brand new update to .NET RIA Services...

Author: BradA Date: 07/11/2009

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the...

Author: BradA Date: 07/10/2009

.NET Rocks! on Data Access Options

Recently .NET Rocks! talked to Stephen Forte and covered a topic I have been interested in for a a...

Author: BradA Date: 07/10/2009

New MSDN Article on RIA Services Published

I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services. Getting...

Author: BradA Date: 06/30/2009

Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services

Vijay, one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do...

Author: BradA Date: 06/26/2009

PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job

Update: See the full list of PM Tips. Recently a friend of mine at Microsoft asked about tips for...

Author: BradA Date: 06/24/2009

A new generation of programmers begins

I have started teaching my 6-year old son logo as our summer learning project.  My goal is to...

Author: BradA Date: 06/09/2009

Release Roadmap for .NET RIA Services

Dinesh Kulkarni recently posted our current thinking on the release roadmap for .NET RIA...

Author: BradA Date: 06/09/2009

Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Keynote at VSLive!

I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas.     I did an update of my...

Author: BradA Date: 06/08/2009

Forms AuthWindows Auth – what is more common?

I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of...

Author: BradA Date: 06/05/2009

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

A couple of years ago Simone Chiaretta did a survey of .NET Developers usage of Ajax..   I...

Author: BradA Date: 05/27/2009

.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!

While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we...

Author: BradA Date: 05/26/2009

.NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009

Scott Morrison just published his demo files for his talks at Teched..  He did some great work...

Author: BradA Date: 05/18/2009

The DZone interviews Hamilton Verissimo on MEF

The DZone has a nice interview with Hamilton on MEF.  Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton...

Author: BradA Date: 05/12/2009

.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview

Today we posted a minor update to .NET RIA Services. This release is mainly focused on addressing...

Author: BradA Date: 05/11/2009

ScottGu Mix Keynote coding demo posted

A ton of folks have asked us about getting the source code to Scott’s cool coding demo. Watch the...

Author: BradA Date: 04/24/2009

Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 5 Released

A few days ago we released MEF Preview 5 on codeplex with all the source code, docs, test and...

Author: BradA Date: 04/14/2009

A few more great posts on .NET RIA Services over the last week.. Christoph had a great post on...

Author: BradA Date: 04/13/2009

Book Review: Outliers

I just finished up Outliers: The Story of Success tonight….  Gladwell is a masterful story...

Author: BradA Date: 04/10/2009

Planning for VS Live in Vegas!

  I am very excited to be giving the opening day keynote at VSLive in Vegas..  I plan to...

Author: BradA Date: 04/09/2009

A few interesting post on .NET RIA Services… What is .NET RIA Services and why should you care?...

Author: BradA Date: 04/03/2009

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