A Cup of Silverlight, RIA & Interoperability

This blog is about building Rich Internet & Interoperable Applications with Silverlight 2.

You will also find technical information about the Eclipse Tools for SilverlightWe welcome your feedback.

More Silverlight, Less Steve

I am leaving Microsoft France to start a new adventure. You may contact my architect collegues to...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/13/2009

Eclipse4SL : M2 released + REST and SOAP Guidance

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight enter year 2009 after achieving its 2008 commitments ! First of...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/11/2009

PDC2008 : Silverlight on its way to address Business Apps

Last week at PDC 2008, Jamie Cool demonstrated some very cool work under progress at Microsoft, to...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/04/2008

Architecture Series – Pure and Mixed configurations

This is the first article in an Architecture Series dealing with technical options taken for the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/15/2008

Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight

Silverlight 2 is Released to Web (RTW). This is great news for our RIA scenarios. But wait, there’s...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/13/2008

eclipse4SL : “Hello World” Tutorial

Duration 30 minutes Description This tutorial is inspired from Scott Guthrie Silverlight 2 Series,...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/13/2008

Tip : Add XAP Mime-Type in Tomcat and IIS 5.1

Mime-Type are used to provide identifiers for file formats on the Internet. By default, XAP files...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/28/2008

How-To : Silverlight accessing Java SOAP services (Part 2 – No Cross Domain : Tomcat/Eclipse)

The HowTo series demo Silverlight accessing Web Services in various configuration. In this post, we...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2008

Tip : Serving JSPs and Servlets from IIS through Tomcat

This tip is about making IIS as a front end to Tomcat hosting Servlets and JSPs on the back end....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/12/2008

Tip : Cross Domain Policy when Self-Hosting your Services

This tip is about self hosting of services with the .Net WCF or Java Restlet framework. Cross-domain...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/11/2008

How-To : Silverlight accessing Java REST services (Part 2 – No Cross Domain : Tomcat/Eclipse)

The HowTo serie demoes Silverlight accessing Web Services in various configuration. In this post, we...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/06/2008

B2C scenario : Customer Environement

The B2C scenario corresponds to Web applications accessed by customers, traditionnaly built with...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/31/2008

Cross Domain : Trouble while accessing Web Services

When Silverlight attempts to access a Web Service, if the SOO is different from the Web Service...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/31/2008

B2B scenario : Partner Environment

The B2B scenario corresponds to Enterprise Web Services exposed to a partner through a Rich Client...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/31/2008

B2E scenario : Intranet Environment

The B2E scenario corresponds to internal Web applications, traditionnaly built with some dynamic...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/31/2008

How-To : Silverlight accessing Java REST services (Part 1 - Cross Domain : IIS + Tomcat)

The HowTo serie demoes Silverlight accessing Web Services in various configurations. In this post,...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/30/2008

Limitations when accessing REST services from Silverlight

As explained in What are those SOAP/RPC and XML/REST styles ?, the REST support in Silverlight has...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/30/2008

What are those SOAP/RPC and XML/REST styles ?

In the Silverlight world, the sole protocol you need to care about is the HTTP protocol. Yet, you...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/30/2008

D2D scenario : Developer Environment

This scenario is typically used in development phase when you are building a Silverlight rich client...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/28/2008

Silverlight scenarios for Rich Internet Applications

From the architecture described in the previous post a cup of Silverlight, a drop of Architecture,...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/28/2008

A cup of Silverlight, a drop of Architecture

We discussed before what Silverlight is about from a technical standpoint. Moving from theory to...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/28/2008

Silverlight from a technical stand point

We have good news : everything you learnt about the Web applies to Silverlight development since...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/24/2008

A few things you may already know about Silverlight

Silverlight is a client technology which takes the Web to the next stage in terms of user...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/24/2008

About a Cup of Silverlight

Silverlight is a terrific platform to build Rich Internet Applications. Yet, there is little...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/23/2008