Contents tagged with Silverlight
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 7: Adding Some Style
Episode 7 of my series on creating a Silverlight 2 data form concentrates on adding visual appeal.
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 6: "C" is for Create
In this episode, you build a XAML form that acts like a popup, modal window. The form validates user input with WCF callbacks to ensure that the customer ID is unique. By the end of the episode, you're able to add a customer to the NorthWind database using Silverlight, VB, ADO.NET Data Services and the Entity Framework.
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Silverlight Streaming Beta Outage
My apologies to those unable to access my screencasts on building a Silverlight 2 data form. The Silverlight Streaming service has been flakey for the last few days and, as I write this, it is non-existent.
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 5: "D" is for Delete
In software development, learning the 'easy' stuff is a breeze. Pick up most any book or article, or browse to the online help and blogs. It's the hard stuff that authors and bloggers ignore or gloss over, at least in the first edition. It's not difficult to understand why; figuring out complicated tasks requires time-consuming questions, lots of research, and plain ol' trial and error. Deadlines crush the best intentions.
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 4: 'U' is for Update
Here's Episode 4 of my series on creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form in Visual Basic.
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Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 3: Master/Details and ObservableCollection
In Episode 3 of my series on creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form, we display the details of the selected item and explore the DataContext property. I spend some time on the interesting and flexible ObservableCollection objects and configure automatic UI updating by implementing INotifyPropertyChanged.
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Learning CRUD and Data Forms in Silverlight 2 (Screencasts)
Not much stuck with me from years of Latin in high school, but the motto “Docendo discimus” has always served me well. “We learn by teaching” expresses one of my motivations for writing tutorials and creating presentations on the latest Microsoft technologies. The best way for me to grasp Silverlight 2 was to commit to an article or talk and then jump in head first to start figuring it out.
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WcfDataSource and AstoriaDataSource Controls Coming
The guys at Intersoft Solutions are working hard on some interesting products for creating business applications in Silverlight 2. Among them are datasource controls for Silverlight 2, something that is sorely lacking in the Microsoft release.
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Doing CRUD Operations in Silverlight 2 Against ADO.NET Data Services
Many of us have been struggling to create business-oriented (LOB) forms using Silverlight 2 and ADO.NET Data Services. There are plenty of community samples on reading data, but a dearth of real-world content on creating and updating records.
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Blocked by the Silverlight ManagedRuntimeError 4004
For my Silverlight 2 prototype business app, I wanted to try capturing JSON data from a WCF service and caching it in isolated storage. I found a nice example by Tim Heuer that I updated to the RTW version. After setting up the WCF service on a VPC running Windows Server 2008, I was able to fill the Silverlight datagrid with remote JSON data. Great!, I thought.