I am presenting a webinar on July 28th on reporting in Silverlight. This webinar is hosted by my employer, Magenic Technologies. If you would like to register and watch this event, please follow this link: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Invitation.aspx?e=6ca01a01-e2bd-4a77-a057-a63ab2208e81 There should be some tome allocated for questions and answers as well. Thank you.
Here is a scenario – I have two tables – Users and Phones. Users table has two columns that relate to Phones table – PrimaryPhone and SecondaryPhone. If you build an EF model with these two tables, you will end up with Users entity with two navigation properties that relate to Phones entity – Phones …
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I have been using Entity framework as DAL for a CSLA for Silverlight based application. I have player a role in uncovering a number of issues that make it very hard to use in these circumstances. Here is my (surely incomplete) list. 1. Foreign keys handling. The actual IDs that are used as foreign keys …
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I am very tired, but Silverlight application our team has been working on for 6+ months is now officially live! We saw that someone used it over the weekend! More reflections on the project are to come in the next few weeks.
My talk at SQL Saturday just ended. My topic was CLR integration – Integrating CLR assemblies to support custom image creation and encompassing complex business logic in SQL server/SSRS. I posted all the code and slides here As always it was a pleasure to talk in front of my fellow developers.
I will be speaking at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Atlanta on April 25, 2009. What is SQL Saturday? It’s a one day free training event for SQL Server professionals organized by a local user group. It takes a lot of work and a lot of volunteers, but it’s also a lot of fun! It …
Here are the steps in achieving this task. 1. Setup WCF service. To do this you have to alter web.config file for the web site that hosts the service. You have to add security setting to basisHTTP binding that is used by Silverlight application to connect to the WCF service. Here is an example of …
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I encountered an interesting problems today. I was trying to setup a Silverlight application to run over https. I was able to successfully run it over HTTP prior to this task. However, when I switched URL to https://www.mysite.com, I got the error 2104 “Could not download the Silverlight application”. The solution that I had to …
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During my Introduction to Silverlight presentation at the Atlanta .NET users group, someone suggested that I show how make a button with rounded corners in Silverlight. I was a bit short on time, and it was getting late, so I decided to write a blog post on the subject matter instead. So, here it goes. …
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I just posted the sample project I used for “Intro to Silverlight” presentation at the Atlanta .NET Users group meeting yesterday on SkyDrive. Please follow this link to get the sample project: I would like to thank everyone who attended the meeting.