Today I am continuing exploring WCF RIA Services. I am going to discuss validation in RIA Services. Any business application needs to validate user input. I am going to start with a simple case. In my sample application a user can enter a company information. I would like to setup RIA Services to force the …
In this post I will cover the update process. I am going to recap where I left off in the last post on RIA Services. The last step was to retrieved based on ID from a read only company object. Once this object is obtained in the VIewModel, we can create a screen to edit …
I am going to continue exploring the topic of RIA services and Silverlight. I thought I was going to get into updates in this post, but there are a few topics I would like to cover first. I am going to try to get to updates in the next post. Today, I am going to …
I know many posts have been written on this subject by many people, but I am writing this one mostly for myself. I find it very useful to type my thoughts on any subject and create a sample project to help me commit more information to memory. So, here it goes. What you need to …
This is purely a bragging post 🙂 I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps …
I spoke at GGMUG (Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group) on Thursday. I was speaking about dynamically styling Silverlight applications using Implicit Style Manager from Silverlight Toolkit. Silverlight toolkit comes with about a dozen themes that anyone can use to style there applications. In the example I am posting I use four of them, A theme …
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I am killing two birds with one stone in this post, covering both CollectionViewSource and Navigation framework in Silverlight 3. To create new Silverlight application that uses Navigation framework, simply create new project in Visual Studio, and you will find Silverlight Navigation Application project template under Silverlight node. Navigation framework in Silverlight three allows developers …
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Today I am going to explore Silverlight three behaviors a little more. In this post I am going to look at different events that can trigger an action in a behavior. Essentially, we can specify any event on a target element to invoke a behavior. Again, we are going to use TargetedTriggerAction base class. This …
I have run into this issue numerous times, but from time to time I keep forgetting what causes this issue. The symptom is that your breakpoints inside Silverlight application cannot be hit, and the information message states that “No symbols have been loaded for this document.” What is usually strange that I was able to …
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One of the properties on object tag for Silverlight control in initParams or initialization parameters: <object name="objSilverlight" data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="source" value="ClientBin/SilverlightInitParams.xap" /> <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" /> <param name="background" value="white" /> <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" /> <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" /> <param name="initParams" value="key=value,key1=value1"/> <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=3.0.40624.0" …
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