Recently David Poll posted a very cool technique for navigating to dynamically loaded pages and on demand downloading of pages in a Silverlight 3 application .  It was very cool but the explicit wire up of each page can be a pain in large applications...

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to consider the scenario that I hope is a common one. The developer writes their Silverlight app using the RIA Services pattern...

I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users’ Group meeting … the only down side is that I missed the really bad pizza’s that most User’s Groups offer ;-)  Here is the demo (and demo steps) I did…  Download . I’ll post the recording when it gets...

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. I customer recently asked about using ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight...

A few folks commented that they’d like to see something in my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ” in Visual Basic. VB is *super* important in the business application space, so I have no problem accommodating...

Well… this has been one of the longer blog series I have done, but there is so much meat here! Maybe someone will write a book or two? Anyway, in this post, I wanted to spend a little time looking at the project structure we have been working with and...

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. Many customers have told me that they love Entity Framework and LinqToSql , but that they are not always able to use them in their projects just yet. In fact the number of folks...

I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as well. Some readers have asked me if RIA Services is required for the client validation goodness. Nope, the .NET RIA Services bits are not required… you can...

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The...

I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”.  Some customers have asked about the “live” version I have running on one of Scott Haneslman’s servers (thanks Scott!) The...

I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical extremes. ...

I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my  Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”.   In this section I am going to show how to get data from a REST based web services rather than directly using Entity Framework...

As you may have heard, we recently shipped MEF support of Silverlight in our CodePlex drop .. I wanted to give you a very simple introduction to MEF and how to use it in Silverlight. This example will show how to use lose coupling, dependency injection...

On July 30th @ 8pm  I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group .  I encourage you to come and bring your questions on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services.. Brad Abrams - Silverlight ready for business and .Net RIA Services...

More updates on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight...

I have gotten some great questions on my series so far… A couple of readers noted that it was not always a good idea to return DAL types back to the client. For example, in Part 2, I returned the SuperEmployee type defined by Entity Framework. For...

Even more update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. Now for some brand new content – that just could not have been done before this release. This demo will take the Application logic we created in my Mix09 talk and...

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight...

Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex .  Not only is this the feature complete build for MEF V1.0 (which will ship with .NET Framework 4) but it also has the first drop of MEF for Silverlight!   Nick has the best summary of what is new...

Want a quick reference and simple example of how to use all the cool controls in Silverlight 3?  Check out the Silverlight Toolkit Samples The best part is not only can you run it as a quick reference and get a feel for how the controls work, but...

More update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight...

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and  the brand new update to .NET RIA Services and the update the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original  video of the full session...

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires...

Recently .NET Rocks! talked to Stephen Forte and covered a topic I have been interested in for a a couple of years: Data Access Options .  Clearly this has been a space of a lot of innovation in the last few years.  Stephen does a good job of...