Category Archives: RIA

UK Tech Days– Gill Cleeren on WCF RIA Services

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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Gill Cleeren of Ordina talking about RIA Services;

This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then you should get a pretty good quality 1280×720 stream. Unfortunately, I don’t have a download option for the video right now so if you’re a little bandwidth challenged or if you wanted an offline version then I’m afraid we don’t have them today.

Gill is both a Regional Director for Microsoft and an MVP for ASP.NET and has also written on the topic of Silverlight and Data – you might want to check out his book;

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook

You can find the main Tech.Days site by clicking on the image below;

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Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4

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Borrowing the content from Karl’s original blog post – there’s a new book on Prism available from O’Reilly or Amazon with an eBook on its way and the MSDN materials here

What’s In The Book?

Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling.

This guide will show you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in your applications, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable.

It will show you how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application.

It will show you how to dynamically construct a flexible user interface by using regions, and how to implement rich navigation across a modular application.

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UK TechDays Virtual Client Conference–Resources

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At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here.

Session: Modern Windows Applications

  1. Visit Develop For Windows
  2. Download the WPF Ribbon Control and get the information on it here
  3. Download the Windows API Code Pack
  4. Read more about the Code Pack
  5. Learn about the Task Bar with WPF 4 ( and part 2 )
  6. More on the Windows 7 TaskBar
  7. More on Windows 7 Libraries
  8. Windows 7 Sensors
  9. Restart/Recovery for Applications
  10. WindowChrome – altering the non-client area of the window.
  11. Subscribe to the Windows Team blog.

Session: User Interfaces with Touch

  1. Some recent local resources on touch;
    1. Touched ( Part 1 )–Getting Touch for Free
    2. Touched ( Part 2 )–Raw Touch Events
    3. Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support
    4. Touched ( Part 4 )-Simple Example
    5. Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls
  2. Read more about WPF 4 Multi-touch and more
  3. Check out the Native Extensions for Silverlight Preview 2

Session: Silverlight Platform Overview

  1. Visit Silverlight.Net
    1. Watch videos
    2. Try the QuickStarts
    3. Checkout hands-on labs
    4. Read books
    5. Read whitepapers
  2. Watch the Silverlight Firestarter
  3. Visit Channel 9
    1. Follow Silverlight TV
    2. Subscribe to the Silverlight tag
  4. Follow Silverlight Q&A on StackOverflow.
  5. Subscribe to the Silverlight Team blog.

Session: Buffers Guide to Expression Blend

  1. Visit Expression on the web.
  2. Learn Blend via tutorials, starter kits, etc.
  3. Check out the Toolbox resources
  4. Local resources on Blend;
    1. 20 recent posts on Blend
  5. Subscribe to the Expression Blend team blog.

Session: Silverlight for Line of Business Applications

  1. Refer back to the general section on Silverlight here.

Session: Silverlight and Multi-tier Applications

  1. Silverlight Networking Videos on Channel 9
  2. Visit the RIA Services Site
  3. Visit the OData site.
  4. WCF Data Services on MSDN.
  5. Understand the WCF subset in Silverlight.
  6. Understand the security options in Silverlight for service access.
  7. and again
  8. and again
  9. and again
  10. Understand the Client/Browser HTTP stacks in Silverlight

Session: WCF RIA Services

  1. Visit the RIA Services Site
  2. RIA Services on MSDN
  3. Watch Deepesh at TechEd 2010
  4. Subscribe to Deepesh’s blog.

Session: MVVM and RIA Services

  1. Watch John’s session from PDC 2010.
  2. Read Josh’s article on MVVM.
  3. Subscribe to John’s blog.
  4. Follow the RIA Services resources from the previous session.

Session: Silverlight Apps with PRISM

  1. PRISM on CodePlex
  2. PRISM on MSDN
  3. PRISM videos on Channel 9 ( previous PRISM version )
  4. Subscribe to Karl’s Blog

Session: Premium Media Experiences with Silverlight

  1. Learn about the Silverlight Media Framework.
    1. Watch videos on Silverlight.net
  2. Learn about IIS Media Services
  3. Subscribe to David’s blog.