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In my "spare time" I've been recording some screencasts about Silverlight 2 Beta 1 along with my colleague Mike. This managed to reach critical mass in that we've now built up a list of 50 screencasts so I thought it was definitely time to share rather than plough ahead because I imagine that it won't be too long before they all get to be out of date....
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The Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 dilemma. I want to be able to continue to do Silverlight 2 Beta 1 development. I need to install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 for Entity Framework and Data Services....
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Just links.... ScottGu Soma Entity Framework Data Services Download...
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I will be at DevDays in Amsterdam the week after this ( i.e. the 22nd and 23rd May ) doing some sessions on; LINQ to XML ADO.NET Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services It would be nice to see you there if you're coming along. It's been a little bit of a hectic past few weeks for me in that schedule has involved a lot of travelling around....
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Matt Warren has an "interesting" post on how you could hack your way to a mocked implementation of LINQ to SQL - if I had a pound for every time someone's asked me how to do this then I'd have at least 3 pounds :-) Seriously though, there is interest in doing this kind of thing and it's a good starting place if you're inclined to head down this route...
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Interesting demonstration app up here; http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/ put together by some of the MCS guys in the UK as far as I know. The terminology is a bit weird ( "Patient Journey?" ) but the app's quite cool as a playpen for Silverlight....
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Not guilty. Never touched it. Absolutely nothing to do with me although I did receive some slightly strongly worded mails from some internal IT folks looking for the real culprit :-)...
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I wanted to upload some videos to Silverlight Streaming. There's an area of the admin site that says "Manage Videos" but, unfortunately, it only lets you upload one video at a time through the web page so that could prove painful if you've a few videos. There's an API to Silverlight Streaming so I wrote a bit of code to do my upload for me. It's...
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I've been trying to use Live Services a little this week and I've been struggling somewhat and it seems to mostly come down to URLs. I've got a Silverlight app which plays some videos. I don't want the burden of hosting those videos though for either streaming or download. So...I figure it'll be easy. I can; Put the streamed videos onto Silverlight...
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I tried specifying a MaxMessageReceivedSize in my config for a Silverlight WCF proxy today and it didn't seem to be getting picked up. Not sure what's going on there but if it helps anyone at any point then I just ended up doing this in code; ImageServiceClient proxy = new ImageServiceClient();
BasicHttpBinding b = proxy.Endpoint.Binding as BasicHttpBinding;...
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I spent about 2 hours trying to figure this out today so I thought I'd just share it here. Mostly, the time lost comes down to Javascript but that's no big surprise :-( Essentially, I'm playing with the HTML Bridge that lets Silverlight .NET code call Javascript code and vice versa. It's all working very smoothly until I want to create an instance of...
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Interesting stuff happening up here - I haven't installed these bits yet but they look worth a whirl....
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If you've been to our MSDN Roadshows ( approx 800 of you so far - thanks and thanks also for the feedback which we've gone through for Cardiff and London already ) or if you are planning to come along then you'll know that this year we're using cinemas. This has some serious upsides ( which is why we did it ); Huge screen. Tiered seating ( combined...
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I've been building quite a bit of Silverlight 2 code and the one thing I'd pass on as a piece of advice is "Build Controls". Even in situations where I've found myself thinking "Oh, this will just be a lump of XAML" I soon find that approach results in a spaghetti-mess of XAML quite quickly and the easiest way is to very quickly split things up in separate...
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Very interesting post over here....
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Thanks a lot to the people who came along to my Entity Framework talk at the Oracle and .NET Special Interest Group in London today. As promised, I've uploaded the slides in PPTX and PDF format if you need them for anything....
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Thanks to the people who came along to my talk on Entity Framework at VBUG in Bristol yesterday. I promised that I'd make the slides available and they can be found here for download in PPTX format and PDF format. This was more or less the same talk as I delivered at Southampton the week before so these resources are also relevant....
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<rant strength="veryMild"> A bit of a personal bugbear. I've met a lot of folks who say things like "How do you compare LINQ and traditional data access?" or something along those lines. Please. You've got to stop calling it "LINQ" :-) LINQ is not necessarily anything to do with relational database access. In .NET Framework V3.5 we have; LINQ...
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I passed across some code to Daniel just last night as he was struggling to get LINQ to XML to read some XML data from a web site ( actually, a web service ) for him. One of the things I miss in Silverlight ( from WPF ) is the ability to naturally bind to XML data and this discussion with Daniel prompted to wonder what I could do about writing classes...
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Thanks a lot to the guys that run NxtGen Southampton and the attendees who came along to my talk on the ADO.NET Entity Framework this evening. I really enjoyed it and hope that you enjoyed it too if you came along - the venue was really interesting ( in what felt like a connecting space between two buildings that are part of a Church ) and thanks a...
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I encountered a chap the other day who was building an application which did something like this; Play a video Load a set of times and thumbnail images from an XML file. Highlight the thumbnail images at the point where the video hits the right position. I thought this was a great example of how easy it can be to build solutions with Silverlight...
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In a word, don't :-) MediaElement.Position is very attractive because it's pretty common to display some UI to show an indicator displaying where you're up to within a particular video. MediaElement.Position is of type TimeSpan and it's a DependencyProperty so it looks ripe for binding. However, it won't work. I've asked around and one of the reasons...
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Just something that I came across recently. If I have a ListBox like this; <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<ListBox
ItemsSource="{Binding}">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Button
Content="Click Me"
Click="OnClick" />
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If you've got a Silverlight UI like this; <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<ListBox
ItemsSource="{Binding}"
x:Name="lstNumbers">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Horizontal">
<Rectangle
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Just something that someone asked me about today so sharing here. Imagine that you want to define a portion of your Silverlight application but leave some other piece to run time. For example - a calculation engine or perhaps something more complicated like a piece of UI with interaction. You can dynamically load up a .NET assembly in Silverlight at...
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