Reporting in Silverlight environment has one major problem. Silverlight does not have a report viewer control for either SQL Server reporting services or Crystal reports. As a result, one has to come up with a workaround that uses existing report viewer controls. Luckily both Crystal and SSRS have report viewer controls designed for the web. …
Today I did a presentation at the GGMUG (Gwinnett, GA Microsoft Users’ Group) meeting on Silverlight’s data access. Download presentation and project here.
Task of the day: create SSRS reports that can be shared between desktop (WPF) and Silverlight applications. Silverlight does not have SSRS report viewer. So what should we do? The cleanest (and easiest) solution is to utilize ASP.NET capabilities. ASP.NET does have web based controls for viewing SSRS reports. So, we will create an aspx …
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As I was working on fixing some animations that got broken due to splitting on one control into multiple controls, I came up with an idea of creating a single animation that could be apply to multiple controls. In my case, the animation was two-fold. As control came into view, it should fade into the …
Magenic is sponsoring a webcast about CSLA .NET for Silverlight on November 13. I will be doing this presentation. I am very excited about this opportunity. I think very highly of Silverlight/WPF technologies. I have also being using CSLA for almost 2 years now on nearly daily basis. As you may have noticed from other …
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I have been working on CSLA for Silverlight project with Rocky Lhotka, Justin Chase, Nermin Dibek, and Mark Steinberg for about three months. I really enjoyed this challenging and interesting work. It has been a great opportunity for me to work with the latest technologies and great, smart and super knowledgeable people. About a month …
I encountered this error today, working on a custom Silverlight application. According to Silverlight.Net this is not a bug. However, I think it is an issue with Silverlight 2.0 RTW release. Based on other posts the following situation causes this issue. You have two images one next to another in your XAML that have the …
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