Kyle McClellan

In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a few hints as to how it could be used. In this post, I will show a specific example where I put together an authorized form that responds to metadata on...

In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a few hints as to how it could be used. In this post, I will show a specific example where I put together a Site Map in Silverlight . I wanted to stay fairly...

Ever since Deepesh posted this awesome article a couple months back, we’ve wanted to give you a template for creating a Silverlight Business Application that looks the Zune client. We started with the Cosmopolitan Theme , applied the tweaks he listed...

I’m about to embark on a series of Silverlight Authorization-related posts using a shared sample project. I use this base project as a template to share functionality and visual consistency to my sample applications. Most of the template is pretty straightforward...

In Authorization Sample 201 , I touched on some of the extensibility options for custom authorization. These include applying custom rules or setting target properties for custom bindings in xaml. I avoided the bigger picture, however, by neglecting to...

I’ve been intending to write a sample using the ComboBox for a while. The more familiar you get with Silverlight, the more you realize the ComboBox causes all sorts of problems. I have mixed feelings about the proliferation of posts I’ve seen on this...

In my first post on RIA and Azure , I showed how to create and modify a RIA business application to run on Windows Azure. In this post, I will cover roughly the same thing but I’ll adjust some of the steps to get the application running using both Windows...

IntelliTrace is not supported for the RIA Services framework. There is currently a bug in Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace that leads to a runtime exception if RIA Services is instrumented to record call information. Since this is the default tracing option...

Earlier this week it was announced that Windows Azure now supports .NET 4. I figured a few of you would want to know how you could write a RIA Services application that ran on the cloud, so I thought I’d put something simple together to get you started...

Support for https has been part of WCF RIA Services for a while now, but most of the early posts we did have been lost. In celebration of the V1 release, I’m resurrecting a guide on using https. In short, you have two options using https. On one hand...

There is a new Authentication Sample that shows how to use RIA Services with Windows Live ID (WLID). It’s a little more complex than the others, so I thought it was worth discussing some of the interesting features. First, the sample opens another window...

RIA Services does not support Out-Of-Browser (OOB) Forms authentication using the Client networking stack out of the box. The Client stack is often recommend for OOB scenarios as it provides a greater level of control over requests. The reason authentication...

The Authentication support in RIA Services uses ASP.NET Membership, Roles, and Profile support by default. While this provides a lot of power, flexibility, and interoperability, it may also leave you wondering “How do I use ASP.NET Membership in Silverlight...

The attached properties described in Authorization 101 will get you going. It may even be a long time before you need more. If you find yourself chafing at the limits, though, then this section is for you. It works through some of first customization...

This is an introduction to the Authorization Sample for RIA Services . Authorization is implemented using attached properties. This means you can mark nearly everything in your xaml files with Authorization properties. In most cases, elements will be...

There have been a lot of questions recently about how to write authorization-enabled UI in Silverlight. We’ve always floated suggestions from the RIA Services team, but never put something concrete together. I decided to take some of those ideas and run...

Jeff has a great blog where he talks about RIA Services regularly. I’d be remiss not to recommend him as the primary source when it comes to the DomainDataSource control. Also, I have to thank him for letting me guest post about custom Filters and Parameters...

Just in case we haven’t met, I’m Kyle. I make a living as a developer on the WCF RIA Services team at Microsoft. Now that RIA Services is edging closer to release, I run across more and more things I want to make available to the community. In doing so...