As I mentioned before I talked at GGMUG last Thursday. I talked about Entity Framework in general and specifically in N-Tier applications, such as Silverlight applications. I think I got a few folks excited about using Entity Framework. The key thing to remember when using EF in N-Tier applications is that EF keeps track of …
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As I mentioned before, I will be working on a series of posts on new features in Silverlight 30. This post is all about ElementName binding. Probably my favorite feature in Silverlight 3 that affects developers writing business applications is addition of ElementName property to Binding object. This features existed in WPF since version 1, …
I will be presenting at the next Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group this coming Thursday. The topic of my presentation will be Entity Framework in general and its applications to Silverlight development. I will be posting the zip file with slides and sample application immediately after the presentation. I hope to see you there!
Atlanta Silverlight Fire Starter event yesterday was awesome! There were over 100 people attending. The vast majority stayed there for the entire length of the event that lasted from 8am until 6pm. All presenters did a great job. All attendees were great. They actively participated in all discussions, asking many questions. Many thanks to all …
I just posted a new release for SilverlightDatabase project on CodePlex : http://silverdb.codeplex.com/ There was an issue with the latest release – you could potentially get an error when adding data to a table previously saved. I posted a bug fix release for this that also includes unit test to verify that the issue is …
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Recording of the webinar I presented is now up on Magenic web site. Here is the address: http://www.magenic.com/Default.aspx?tabid=635 Since I am not sure if the sample project is available, I decided to post the zip file with the sample project here. Please let me know if you have any questions.
I could not have been more pumped about my Silverlight database project (See my post from a week ago for details). I searched CodePlex for “Silverlight”, and now my project is number 20 on the list sorted by relevance out of total 622 projects. It is also listed on Silverlight MSDN main page today: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/silverlight/default.aspx. …
I just installed Silverlight 3 last Friday. One feature that I was hoping to see fixed was localization in Silverlight. Ideally, I like to bind localized data, such as labels in XAML. For example: <UserControl.Resources> <resources:ModuleResources x:Key="LanguageResource" /> then, <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="7,0,7,0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource LanguageResource}, Path=SomePropertyName}"></TextBlock> This works great, but there is one issue. …
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I just uploaded and published new CodePlex project I have been working on. It is an Isolated Storage based database for Silverlight. It supports multiple strongly typed tables, basic Linq based operations, addition and deletion of ranges of items, deletion of items based on condition. You can also directly bind data to UI in Silverlight …
I am planning to write some posts on new features in Silverlight 3.0. I decided to start with the easiest one – out of browser support. Start by creating new Silverlight application in Visual Studio. Once it is created, go to properties of the Silverlight application project. You will see this window: Check “Enable running …