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Silverlight – Navigating Data

Dave — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Last week I demonstrated how to access data from a web service in Silverlight and display it on the page. Today we are going to continue on with that demo and look at how to navigate through our data. As I’ve stated in previous posts, Silverlight doesn’t work quite the same way as we are [...]

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Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service

Dave — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:38:00 +0000

In the last several posts, I’ve demonstrated various ways of getting data onto the screen. What I’ve purposely omitted up until this point is how to update this information. So let’s start by going back to the demo we created in Febuary. What we ended up with is an application that would display the First [...]

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Silverlight, Web Services and Datasets

Dave — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:21:00 +0000

I sat down today to learn about using Silverlight and Dataset from a Web Service. Something you’d think would be rather trivial. I mean, seriously folks. We use Datasets as a means of transporting data up and down the tiers of just about everything we do in .NET. It would stand to reason that using [...]

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Friday Books – Introducing MS Silverlight 2

Dave — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:51:57 +0000

Product Description Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs [...]

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Silverlight – RESX Files and Internationalization

Dave — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:52:53 +0000

One of the toughest things to get your head around in Silverlight is Internationalization and Localization. But once you figure out the quirks and the parts that are missing in Visual Studio 2008, it’s not that bad. In this post I hope to explain step by step what you need to do to have this [...]

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Silverlight – Binding ResourceDictionaries

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:21:30 +0000

In the last two Silverlight posts I’ve introduced databinding in Silverlight. We’ve seen that databinding, while similar to what we’ve experienced in Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications, is markedly different in Silverlight. Today’s topic further illustrates the differences by asserting that you can bind Resources, or more accurately Resource Dictionaries, to your controls. If you’ve [...]

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Friday Books – Silverlight 2 Recipes

Dave — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:28:41 +0000

Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time. The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A [...]

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Friday Books – Data-Driven Services with SL2

Dave — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:55:37 +0000

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service [...]

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Silverlight – Databinding

Dave — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:46:15 +0000

When I was learning DataBinding in both .NET 1.0 and .NET 2.0, I quickly discovered that most of what I learned about DataBinding for ASP.NET was useless as I moved to Windows Forms and what I learned about DataBinding for Windows Forms was useless when it came to developing for ASP.NET. So it really shouldn’t [...]

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Silverlight – Wire up your form for programming

Dave — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:21:29 +0000

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, learning Silverlight is a lot more about relearning some basic assumptions than it is about learning a new language. We’ve already looked at the basic layout managers available and how that impacts putting a screen together. Today we want to look at how we can capture events [...]

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Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action

Dave — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:16:37 +0000

Product Description ***When you purchase the Print book, you can download a PDF copy from Manning Publications at no additional charge*** Microsoft describes Silverlight as a "cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web." That’s a really boring description for a really exciting [...]

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SilverLight – Layout Managers

Dave — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:20:44 +0000

I know it is customary to start out presentations of new technology with a “Hello World” application, but if you have any interest in SilverLight you’ve probably already seen one of those and it really didn’t help you a whole lot. Where we really need to start off is at the beginning, with the foundational [...]

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More on SilverLight Developer Installation

Dave — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:45:18 +0000

If you followed along with the install instructions last week and then went to do some development, you probably noticed that the Visual Studio environment does not allow for WYSIWYG/Drag and Drop GUI development like we can do with Windows Forms or ASP.NET development. Insert rant for how lame this is here… But all is [...]

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Installing Silverlight2 Tools for Visual Studio

Dave — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:06:01 +0000

I was talking with a friend of mine a couple of days ago about the future of web development and XAML specifically when he made the comment about the tools not being available for the average developer. I said that I was pretty sure the tools were available now for Visual Studio. This morning, I [...]

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