In this 15 minutes video blog I will show to you how to use the combined power of Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL to create a simple application. double click the player to play in fullscreen Attached you can find the final solution.

Update 17.4.2008: I have found a bug on the LinqToSqlClientHelper.LinqHelper class. I have attached the new corrected project. In this 30 minutes video blog I will show you one approach on how to do insert, update and delete operations with optimistic locking in a 3 tier environment. As you may know...

In this 15 minutes video blog I will show you how you can scroll through large resultsets using the SL DataGrid and LINQ to SQL. I will show: - paging server side using .Skip and .Take methods in LINQ to SQL - templating the DataGrid for adding the paging vertical scrollbar You should watch first...

The Microsoft Switzerland DPE Team yesterday ran an all-day hands-on lab on the subject of Silverlight 2 Beta 1 in Zürich. This blog post's purpose in life is to share the lab with you in case you want to try it for yourself to quickly get started with Silverlight 2. Goal of the lab was to build...

On November 19, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 were released to manufacturing (RTM). As one of the most new exciting features is LINQ, today we hold in our Microsoft Swiss subsidiary a C# 3.0 Enhancements & LINQ Hands-On Lab . Participants had the opportunity...

As you probably know LINQ to SQL supports stored procedure (SP). You can drag&drop a SP in the LINQ to SQL Designer and the magic happens: a new method inside the DataContext class is generated and a new return type is defined by the designer to represent this result (the name of the type is composed...

Heute haben wir ein Hands-on Lab zum Thema Windows Workflow Foundation durchgeführt. Das HOL war ein riesen Erfolg; wir waren am Vormittag und am Nachmittag voll ausgebucht. Dieses 59-Seitige Hands-on-Lab zeigt Ihnen die Schlüsselkonzepte von Windows Workflow Foundation in einem reellen Szenario....

Yesterday we hold here in Wallisellen an IIS7 Event where the main features (with plenty of demos) of this fresh new release were presented from a developer point of view. As in the last time I'm diving into Windows Communication Foundation, one of the demo I particularly liked (which I want now to...

Diese Woche haben wir in Zürich und Yverdon einen MSDN TechTalk und anschliessend ein MSDN Hands-on Lab (HOL) zu OBA durchgeführt. An den Hands-on Labs haben knapp 100 Personen teilgenommen und wissen nun, was 2007 Office in Ergänzung mit Visual Studio 2008 zu bieten hat! Download Falls Sie nicht...

The first Microsoft Surface computer has arrived in Switzerland! And as a team of committed gadget blog readers (officially in denial, of course), we decided to do a photo unboxing story. This is the box – rather crate – that awaited us in the post office: Lifting the box reveals the sealed unit, looking...

I have updated the Hands-On Lab “Silverlight 4 Line of Business Application using WCF RIA Services ” to work with the RTM version of VS2010 and SL 4 and WCF RIA Services 1.0. In this 99 page hands-on lab you will learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Silverlight 4 to create...

[Update: Version 1.1 released] Welcome to SurfaceTwitter, a multi-touch Twitter client for the Microsoft Surface! I wrote SurfaceTwitter to demonstrate the capabilities of the WPF based project type from the Microsoft Surface SDK 1.0 Service Pack 1 . It is tested to run on Microsoft Surface Service Pack...

[ July 2010: The lab has been updated in order to reflect RTM changes --> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/swiss_dpe_team/archive/2010/08/03/hands-on-lab-silverlight-4-line-of-business-application-using-wcf-ria-services-now-updated-to-reflect-rtm-changes.aspx ] After building this lab from the ground and...

An der internationalen Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas hat Microsoft mit Samsung zusammen die nächste Generation des Microsoft Surface vorgestellt, ein flaches Gerät, welches mit der neuen PixelSense-Technologie arbeitet (das ist eine LCD Bildschirmoberfläche, bei der die einzelnen Pixel...

With this tutorial I want to show you how you can use the EntityDataSource control in order to build an ASP.NET Web Page which is consuming an Entity Data Model (created with Entity Framework); you will see what are the typical problems you may find when working with this control. EntityDataSource...

In this 15 minutes video blog I will explain the magic (or not so magic J ) that I’m doing in the LinqHelper client and server classes for enabling client side change tracking with LINQ to SQL. If you didn’t watch the first part I encourage you to watch it first : http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_dpe_team...

Encouraged from the positive feedback in terms of number of participants and attendees’ comments, this week the Swiss MSDN Team hold once again another Hands-on Lab here in Wallisellen. This time the topic was Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the powerful Microsoft technology to built service...

Last December we held a hands-on lab on how to create a line of business application from scratch on Windows Presentation Foundation using Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2. Windows Presentation Foundation together with the new WPF control toolkit offers a whole new set of controls to build state...

Today at TechEd North-America, Bill Gates and Soma Somasegar made a wonderful announcement: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be available for customers to download later this week. This is really good news! In fact Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is a very stable and high quality built that comes with a commercial...

It is a pretty common need to be able to compose a query with multiple "where" parameters at runtime. There are are scenarios where you want to pass multiple unrelated parameters for your selection that user will chose only at runtime. Lets take an example. In our HOL for Silverlight http://blogs...

With this post I’ll show you how you can extend the user interface of a Silverlight application with additional content downloaded on user’s demand. This is sometimes required if you want to have well performing Silverlight applications. What does it mean? That the content (UI + Assemblies) of an application...

Updated in a new post taking in to account the new feautre in Silverlight 3: http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_dpe_team/archive/2009/04/24/wpf-vs-silverlight-3-for-intranet-line-of-business-apps.aspx Silverlight 2 has just been released and it’s clearly a powerful technology for web applications. It was...