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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 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.  Read More...
Posted 31 July 09 03:28 by BradA | 14 Comments   
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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. 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 Read More...
Posted 31 July 09 07:42 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 10:12 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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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 updating the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. I customer recently asked about using ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight Read More...
Posted 30 July 09 09:00 by BradA | 13 Comments   
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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 “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ” in Visual Basic. VB is *super* important in the business application space, so I have no problem accommodating Read More...
Posted 29 July 09 08:37 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 28 July 09 07:08 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 27 July 09 07:49 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 09 08:25 by BradA | 14 Comments   
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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 updating the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo Read More...
Posted 23 July 09 08:25 by BradA | 10 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 22 July 09 08:23 by BradA | 19 Comments   
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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 exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical extremes.  Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 09:33 by BradA | 7 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 21 July 09 08:27 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 20 July 09 08:17 by BradA | 13 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 19 July 09 08:15 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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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 original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM Read More...
Posted 17 July 09 04:09 by BradA | 19 Comments   
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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 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 example, Read More...
Posted 16 July 09 09:10 by BradA | 21 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 15 July 09 07:30 by BradA | 33 Comments   
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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 original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 01:02 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 08:30 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App
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 Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 11:55 by BradA | 15 Comments   
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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 original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 07:56 by BradA | 25 Comments   
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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 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 Read More...
Posted 11 July 09 07:06 by BradA | 50 Comments   
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 example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires Read More...
Posted 10 July 09 10:06 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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.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 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 Read More...
Posted 09 July 09 10:05 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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