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Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Read and Write Files in Silverlight 4

By Mark Latchey, on January 27th, 2012

Introduction:

As we know, Silverlight has limitations for accessing files from local drives. In this article, we will see how to read and write files anywhere in local drives.

Creating OOB Silverlight Application:

Fire up VS 2010 and create a Silverlight Application with the name ReadingWritingFiles.

Setting for OOB Silverlight Application:

The settings for OOB application is given here.

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Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Basic About Silverlight 5

By Mark Latchey, on January 10th, 2012

In this article we are going to explore the WCF Ria Services with Silverlight 5. Lets start with the basics for the first timers .

Create a new SL project as shown below :

Note the DLLs that are added when you enable WCF RIA Service support.

In the web project Add New Item . Add a Data Model . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Basic About Silverlight 5

HostForLife.EU now supports Web Deploy 2.0 Hosting

By Jonas OReilly, on December 14th, 2011

HostForLIFE.EU has supported Web Deploy technique on all our hosting plans. With a web deploy technique, a customer can efficiently synchronize sites, applications or servers across your IIS 7.0 server farm by detecting differences between the source and destination content and transferring only those changes which need synchronization.

What is Web Deploy 2.0?

Web Deploy (Web Deployment Tool) simplifies . . . → Read More: HostForLife.EU now supports Web Deploy 2.0 Hosting

Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Debugging XAML Binding with Silverlight 5

By Landon Ferguson, on December 13th, 2011

Prerequisites

Makes sure that you have downloaded latest version Silverlight Toolkit SDK .If not download from here .Also make sure that you are running on VisualStudio SP1.

The XAML Data binding

The example demonstrated here implement basic XAML data binding with DomainDataSource control , lets look at the XAML binding of one of the controls.

Nothing fancy , simple binding.

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Silverlight WCF Hosting :: Configuring WCF service to utilise Enterprise Library – Logging application to log data to database

By Landon Ferguson, on November 22nd, 2011

This article walks through the ‘Enterprise Library: Logging application‘ configuration process to log data to database using WCF service.

Note that regardless of Web service type i.e., SOAP or RESTful the configuration process is same.

Technical environment:-

Visual Studio 2010 with .NET 4.0
Enterprise library 5.0
WCF

ASP.NET Web application on Client end.

Open Service Web.config using Enterprise library configuration tool

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Silverlight Hosting :: How to Create Custom Control Menu in Silverlight

By Mark Latchey, on November 16th, 2011

We can create a custom menu control in Silverlight using the following steps.

Step 1: Create a Custom Menu control in Silverlight.

With the help of ToggleButton and Popup controls in Silverlight, we can create a custom menu control as follows.

<ToggleButton x:Name=”toggleButton” Style=”{StaticResource ColorToggleButtonStyle}” BorderBrush=”{x:Null}” Height=”20″ Width=”90″ Click=”toggleButton_Click”>
       <Grid>
           <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
               <ColumnDefinition Width=”20″ />
               <ColumnDefinition Width=”58″ />
           </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
          <TextBlock Height=”14″ Name=”txtview” . . . → Read More: Silverlight Hosting :: How to Create Custom Control Menu in Silverlight

WCF Hosting :: WCF Service Contract

By Landon Ferguson, on November 7th, 2011

Service contract means the collective mechanisms by which a service’s capabilities and requirements are specified for its consumers. We must say that it defines the operations that a service will perform when executed. It tells more things about a service, like message data types, operation locations, the protocols the client will need in order to communicate . . . → Read More: WCF Hosting :: WCF Service Contract

Silverlight Hosting on our European Data Center

By Jonas OReilly, on November 1st, 2011

Starting from 7th Nov 2011, ASPHostCentral.com starts to offer a hosting service located in our prestigious Amsterdam (Netherland) Data Center. For further information, please click here.

For all our new customers who wish to have their sites activated on our Amsterdam (Netherland) data center, you must indicate your request on our order form at https://secure.asphostcentral.com. For our . . . → Read More: Silverlight Hosting on our European Data Center

Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Style Setter in Silverlight 5

By Landon Ferguson, on October 20th, 2011

Silverlight 5 Hosting with ASPHostCentral.com

By George Veltreski, on October 18th, 2011

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and premium media experiences. Among other capabilities, the Silverlight 5 release candidate highlights dramatic video quality and performance improvements, and features that improve developer . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting with ASPHostCentral.com