To enable a Silverlight control to access a web service (like a WCF Service) in another domain, the service must explicitly allow cross-domain access. Doing so, a service states that the operations it exposes can safely be invoked by a Silverlight control...

Cool!, just a few days ago (Thu Sep 25 2008) Microsoft P&P have published a neat 'Application Architecture Guide' (v.2.0). It is great because "it is new", so it covers most of the new Microsoft dev technologies and application/architecture types...

Great news!, yesterday we launched Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate! It is quite probable that the final RTW build will be available shortly! I wanted to mention that because of we are still in BETA phases, it is more than likely that we have to...

We're actually today running an event in Madrid about RIA Apps Architecture with Silverlight 2.0. The event content is oriented towards Software Architects. Our main speaker is Josh Holmes (RIA Architect Evangelists, based on U.S.) because he's...

This is my second post about "Updating data using Entity Framework in N-Tier and N-Layer Applications". If you wanna read the basics, go to my first post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2008/09/04/updating-data-using-entity-framework...

First of all, we are talking about using Entity Framework and how it fits within N-Tier and N-Layer applications, ok?, that’s our initial scenario. An N-Tier application is an application where you have 3 or more physical tiers . I mean with that things...