By Landon Ferguson, on May 16th, 2012
In this example I’ll use WCF RIA services because it can wire the example up quickly, it automatically projects the data annotations, and because I get a lot of people who ask me for examples using WCF RIA. The example here will work just as well if you use your own POCO classes with annotations in . . . → Read More: WCF RIA Hosting :: Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example
By Mark Latchey, on April 16th, 2012
In this post, I’d like to present a custom markup extension of my own – one that retrieves RESX localization resources and simplifies the task of adding localization support to Silverlight applications.
In the past, RESX-based localization was usually performed in Silverlight XAML with the help of the built-in {Binding} markup extension. To demonstrate, the following example . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Using Custom Markup Extensions in Silverlight 5
By Landon Ferguson, on April 4th, 2012
Today, I was working on PodTower a bit more, and needed a way to add items to the new playlist coming in PodTower 2. While I plan on adding drag and drop at a later date, for now I decided that double-clicking on an item in the podcast list will add it to the current playlist.
So, . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: DoubleClickInvokeCommandBehavior in Silverlight 5
By Landon Ferguson, on March 22nd, 2012
This is another installment in the WCF vs. WTF article series. I mentioned before that I am quite a fan of WCF but having said that, feel that there are a few areas for improvement like sending method comments with the service contract discovery and more streamlined debugging, to name a couple.
The truth is that WCF . . . → Read More: WCF Hosting :: How to Fix Error -The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
By Mark Latchey, on March 19th, 2012
DomainServices was introduces as part of WCF RIA Services. WCF RIA Services offers a solution on how we can build a middle-tier having clients and servers.
Using a DomainService in a Silverlight client is very easy using WCF RIA Services – the WCF RIA Services link between the client and the server will automatically generate the client . . . → Read More: WCF RIA Hosting :: Use DomainServices as Service References
By George Veltreski, on March 15th, 2012
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By George Veltreski, on March 14th, 2012
ASPHostCentral.com, the leader in ASP.NET and Windows Hosting Provider, proudly announces that we will support ASP.NET 4.5 Hosting.
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By Mark Latchey, on March 14th, 2012
A nice, small feature in the new Silverlight 5 Beta is the ability to type ahead in combo boxes.
This makes choosing from long list far simpler.
You can see this at work by whipping up a very quick Silverlight 5 application.
On the Main page add a combo box,
<Grid
x:Name=”LayoutRoot”
Background=”White”>
<ComboBox
x:Name=”theComboBox”
Height=”40″
Width=”150″
Margin=”20″ />
</Grid>
In the code behind we’ll create some data to . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Combo Box Type Ahead in Silverlight 5
By Landon Ferguson, on March 5th, 2012
In my experience working with Silverlight applications, probably one of the most underused features I’ve witnessed is the ability to abstract application-level functionality using the IApplicationService and IApplicationLifetimeAware interfaces. This, in turn, results in the over-use (and abuse) of the Startup and Exit events in the Application object. Before you get angry with me shaking a . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications
By Landon Ferguson, on March 1st, 2012
One feature I employ often in Silverlight projects is the ability to share a model between the client and the server. When you expose a model using a WCF service, you can consume it on the Silverlight side and indicate you want to reuse types in a referenced assembly, rather than having the proxy types generated. . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Data Contracts and Behaviors over the Wire Silverlight 4