In this post I will take a look at the new features in the next release of entity framework. Primary feature set is centered around what is commonly referred to as “Code First” approach to Entity Framework. With code first approach you write the code first, then entity framework runtime dynamically figures out how to …
Since Microsoft now released RTM version of their tools for Windows Phone 7 development, I updated my phone database project to the latest version as well. You can find this project here : http://winphone7db.codeplex.com/. I added also a new feature – ability to create tables with data on desktop, then load them into the database …
In light of recent issues with memory leaks in Silverlight and the fact that service pack that was supposed to address these issues was released last week, I found myself working on an application, trying to confirm that it does not leak any longer. To simplify my approach, I created a destructor for my view …
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As I was working on one of my personal learning projects, I encountered a small problem. The project was Prism based with multiple modules. I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such as styles. This approach works just fine by using merged dictionaries in …
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Today I would like to cover a specific use case that came up a few times in Silverlight applications I wrote. For example, I wand a user to enter some sensitive information, encrypt it in Silverlight client, transfer it over to the server, then decrypt it and perforation some operations on that data. First step …
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Today as I was working on a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2010, XAML Intellisense just stopped working for me. Quick internet search yielded no useful results, so I was to figure this out on my own. Just to test I created a brand new application, and Intellisense was fine there. Logical answer was that …
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In my last post I am going to cover the last two topics I set out to address. The first topic is UI testing. What unit test frameworks lack sometime is the actually UI testing. What I mean by that is for example, click on a button, then see what happens. In case of Silverlight, …
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Windows Phone 7 Developer tool beat has been released by Microsoft. You can download it here. Make sure to download and read release note available on the page above. Thanks.
In this post I will explore ability to mock various Silverlight classes in order to enable mocking in your unit tests. There is a variety of mocking frameworks available, but I will pick one for my testing – Moq. You can download the framework here, Once this is done, I need to add some references …
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In this post I will describe how to create asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight applications. First of all, I’d like to point out that any communication with a server component in Silverlight must be asynchronous. Reason being is that if communication was synchronous and the remote service was not responding, browser which host Silverlight application …
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