Windows Phone 7 Application with OData

In this post I will continue exploring Windows Phone 7 development.  Almost any application needs a data source.  There are a few options available for Silverlight applications on Windows Phone.  You can use plain WCF service.  You can optionally put it on Azure.  You can also use Isolated Storage.  Essentially it becomes your custom database.  …

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Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight

In this post I will go through the steps of creating my first Windows Phone 7 application using Silverlight.  It will be simple and will mostly concentrate on tools rather than phone specific functionality.  Of course, I will do more posts describing features that are specific to Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. First thing I …

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CodeStock Talk

I submitted sessions to this year’s CodeStock event.  You can vote now for all sessions here. If you would like to see my session, please vote for them.  Here is my list Building Silverlight Business Applications using CSLA.NET for Silverlight Using Entity framework 4.0   Thank you and I hope to see you there.

Getting Started with PowerPivot

Last week I took a stab at creating my first PowerPivot spreadsheet, and I wanted to document the steps.  Maybe this post will help someone, but it will help me remember, that is for sure! Before you get started, you will need to download all the software required.  Here is my list: Office 2010 Beta …

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Extending Interfaces with Implementation

Today I was faced with an issue.  I had an interface based implementation of a specific functionality.  All classes that implemented this interface had different implementation of course.  What I had to add is ability to run certain checks on each implementation that would need to analyze the data defined in the interface and return …

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Silverlight 4 + COM + SQL Server = Cool!

Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4.  One would question the titles of my post.  COM and Cool in the same sentence?  Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM.  In order to access COM, you must install Silverlight application on a …

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The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow

Glen Gordon, our local evangelist is doing another road show.  Here are the event details. Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:00 PM – Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 12:30 PM Atlanta Marriot Alpharetta 5750 Windward Pkwy Alpharetta Georgia 30005 United States Language(s): English. Product(s): Azure Services Platform, Microsoft …

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