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I’ve been wanting to catch up and explore the (relatively) new Silverlight PivotViewer control for a little while but just hadn’t managed to find the spare cycles. The announcement is about 6 weeks old at this point which shows how far “behind the times” I’m running A number of public examples of the...
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It looks like there is a download available of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 if you’re an MSDN subscriber. ( via the official blog )
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I’ve been taking a look at the Reactive Extensions for .NET. It’s early days for me at this point but I’m finding what I’m seeing to be really interesting. This is code that’s available from the DevLabs; and there are versions for .NET 3.5 Sp1, .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4 and also for JavaScript...
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I happened to revisit the current list of feature suggestions in the “ Silverlight Feature Suggestions Forum ” and was struck by what a great list it is. Here’s how the list looks in August, 2010 with Silverlight 4 being the current shipping version ( and, according to the www.riastats.com graph, version...
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I had a quick play with with the (relatively) new Zoom.It site from LiveLabs ( click the image ); If you visit the site, you can point it at any image on the web or any website and create a DeepZoom from it. I visited, entered my URL and it created me this one . There’s a decent write-up over here with...
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In the past I’ve made some screencast videos around PRISM or “Composite Application Guidance” for Silverlight. I’ve also made some screencast videos around the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight . Not so long ago, the PRISM folks announced that they would be integrating MEF into PRISM with...
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A new version of Visual Studio called “LightSwitch” was announced at the VS Live conference today by Jason Zander. At the moment, I don’t have any deep details to write about here but the essence is around a productive tool for building business applications with Silverlight for both the browser and...
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One of the strengths of WCF RIA Services is in its capabilities around the application of common validation logic on both the client tier and the service tier. If I take the simplest route to create a new Silverlight+RIA Services project as in File | New Project; and then make sure that I “switch on...
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I was intrigued by this post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets. It’s kind of interesting because running the application in IE9 gives me; now, the only bit of that application that’s actually Silverlight is the highlighted blue square...
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We were very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK recently and he did a whole morning talking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to a fairly packed room of around 120 developers on the UK Microsoft Campus. I was really pleased to be able to host Glenn but I also wanted to get the sessions...
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If you’re using RIA Services then you might be using the “Silverlight Business Application” template which has an issue with out-of-browser debugging which causes it to throw an exception rather than start your debugging session properly. Fortunately, it’s an easy workaround documented below; “ Debugging...
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I’ve got a couple of little Silverlight tutorials up on the ActiveTuts site; for active followers of this blog and for folks that are heavily into Silverlight they’re possibly a bit on the introductory-end of the spectrum and I certainly don’t claim that they’re comprehensive in any way, shape or form...
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It’s a fairly common requirement that a business service authenticates a client and it’s usually (at least) for the purpose of authorisation whereby we can control which users have access to an application or to some of its functionality. The two ways you usually go about it with a web site or web service...
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Morgan ( a double ex-colleague of mine and all round genius ) has got an interesting blog post over here on how he finds it painful to implement commands in WPF application and a possible way around some of that pain via custom type descriptors. I spotted this via Sam’s response over here on Functional...
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I wanted to write a little about some authentication experiments with WCF RIA Services but I got a little distracted on the way and thought I’d write it up a bit of a preamble about the “WCF RIA Services Class Library”. The easiest way of creating a RIA Services Silverlight client is to do File->New...