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Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3) – Part 1 This is the first post in a series of posts about building applications with Microsoft .Net RIA Services and Silverlight 3 . In this post I will create a new application, create a simple data model and use the Domain Service and Domain Context to retrieve data and bind it to a DataGrid. Before you start, make sure you have Silverlight 3 Beta and .NET RIA Services March 2009 Preview installed, and you have already installed...
Download MIX09 Sessions and Watch Offline personally prefer watching sessions regardless of my Internet connection status, so I decided to download MIX09 sessions and watch offline . I collected the list of available sessions from MIX 09 , and they are easy to download. I personally use Free Download Manager for simultaneous efficient downloads - you can try it yourself. Just select all the text in this post, right click and select “Download Selected with Free Download Manager”. Note: Full details...
ADO.Net Data Services Offline (“Astoria” Offline) – Alpha Preview While only a week ago, the Astoria team has announced ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 . Today, an alpha preview of Astoria Offline just became available. ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 is a tech preview of the next release of ADO.NET Data Services. It will initially target the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Silverlight 2 platforms in a future version support the .NET Framework 4.0 platform. “Astoria Offline” enables developers to add...
#DevAcademy3 is a Twitter Trend! Today, in my Silverlight Session at Developer Academy 3 I had a Hash Tag contest, as I explained in a previous post . The contest was so popular, that the tag #devacademy3 became a Twitter Trend : The result of the content was: which means that Kobi Magnezi won a Microsoft ARC Mouse: Read all #devacademy3 updates on Twitter .
Silverlight 2 Demo from Developer Academy 3: Part 1 – Anatomy of a Silverlight Application After Setting the environment with the Twitter Service, we can start building the SilverTwitter Application. Create a new Silverlight Application Create a new project , and select a Silverlight Application . Name it SilverTwitter and click OK . Confirm the creation of a Web Application that will host the Silverlight Application in it by clicking OK . Visual Studio creates a new Solution that contains the Silverlight...
Silverlight 2 Demo from Developer Academy 3: Part 1 – Setting the Environment Downloads Visual Studio 2008 Trial and Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 or Web Developer Express 2008 (SP1 inside). Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Expression Blend 2 Trial and Service Pack 1 Twitter Service Since I didn’t want to spend time on dealing with the Twitter API during the session, I built a Twitter Web Service a few weeks back, and posted several posts while building it:...
Who Tweets the Most About Developer Academy 3? Developer Academy 3 Is just around the corner, and in the last couple of weeks we’ve been updating our Twitters about it , tagging each update with #devacademy3 . Using the Twitter’s API Search capabilities which I wrote about in my last post, I went to check who tweets the most about Developer Academy 3 . The following chart is shown in a Silverlight application using the new Silverlight Toolkit Chart control . I’ll show this chart in in my Silverlight...
Building a Twitter Client for my Silverlight Session @ Developer Academy 3 On December 15, I will deliver an introductory session about Silverlight 2 in Developer Academy 3 . Unlike many other Silverlight sessions I have attended in the past, this will be less-show-off-more-code session. Additionally, in order for it to be a very fun session, I will build a Twitter client application with Silverlight. I’ll use the next few posts to describe the work I’ve been doing in order to build this demo. Enjoy...
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 with VS2008 SP1 Just spotted this on Amy Dullard's blog: Silverlight Tools Must be Updated After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 If you previously had Silverlight Tools Beta 2 installed, after installing SP1, if you open or create a Silverlight project, a dialog will open stating: Microsoft Silverlight Tools is unable to open the project due to a missing patch for Visual Studio. Please download the latest update from : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=120032 . An...
Slide Decks from my Silverlight Session @ Aluna Conference are available Aluna is a Java consulting company, that runs Java developer conferences every once in a while. This Wednesday, the conference sessions were all about rich Internet application (RIA) technologies. They had a session about GWT (Google Web Toolkit), about JSF (JavaServer Faces Technology), and I had the privilege to talk about Silverlight. In this session I have talked about what Silverlight is and showed some demo application...
How To: Call Java EE Web Service from Silverlight Client I have already posted about How To: Call a Java EE Web Service from a .Net Client , but if Silverlight is the .Net client application that consumes that service, there are several issues you should be aware of. Only asynchronous operations When adding a service reference from a Silverlight application to any web service, the generated proxy has only async operations. This means that instead of calling the operation and get the result: CalculatorServiceClient...
Silverlight WCF Returns HTTP 404 Today I ran into something weird. I created a WCF Service and tested it with simple .Net client application and it worked fine. Than, I build a Silverlight application and tried to call the same service, but kept getting: System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException : " The remote server returned an unexpected response: (404) Not Found ." What I found out was that since the WCF call was made to a service that is not under the same domain as my Silverlight application...
propnot – Code Snippet for Property with PropertyChanged event Using Silverlight 2 data binding, If we want the UI to be notified and updated with changes in the model, we have to implement System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged interface: public interface INotifyPropertyChanged { event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; } A property that wants to notify the program that its values was changed should raise the PropertyChanged event and provide the name of the property...
Download MIX 08 Sessions and Watch Offline I personally prefer watching sessions regardless of my Internet connection status, so I decided to download MIX 08 sessions and watch offline . I collected the list of available sessions from MIX 08, and they are easy to download. I personally use Free Download Manager for simultaneous efficient downloads - you can try it yourself. Keynote I Dean Hachamovitch, Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie Keynote II Guy Kawasaki, Steve Ballmer T01 - Creating a RESTful API with...
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview In 30 minutes MIX is starting , and the Beta 1 of Silverlight 2 is available with the Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Silverlight and the Silverlight SDK. Additionally, the source code of the Silverlight Controls is available for you to download and learn from, if you want to extend or create some of your own. Here are the downloads: Silverlight 2 runtime ( download ) Silverlight Tools for VS2008 ( download ) Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Beta...
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