By Landon Ferguson, on September 13th, 2011%
More often, the data to shown in an AJAX page is retrieved from the Web server using a Web service, a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. The services that can also return JavaScriptObjectNotation(JSON) are potential candidates for AJAX pages.
This post explains about calling a WCF service using ASP.NET AJAX Library Data View control. The following are . . . → Read More: WCF Service Hosting :: Using ASP.NET AJAX Library in WCF Service
By Landon Ferguson, on September 8th, 2011%
When Microsoft Silverlight — a web application that integrates multimedia, computer graphics, animation, and interactivity into a single runtime environment — was initially launched as a video streaming plug-in in 2007, Microsoft’s hopes were high. In the three years since its release, four versions have been released, and with each new one comes additional interactivity features . . . → Read More: Silverlight Hosting News :: SRS and Microsoft to Bring 5.1 Surround Sound
By Landon Ferguson, on August 30th, 2011%
Below is the code for export data from silver light code.
With this code user can export data in (csv formate) by very fast performance results.
In this code need to read data from grid and convert in one csv format as tab separator. And that file data need to save in one file with xls extension with . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Export from Silverlight
By Landon Ferguson, on August 25th, 2011%
“How do you bind a ComboBox to a collection of objects, and then bind a property from the selected object’s to some other scalar property?” I received this question today from a friend of mine (a variation of this question). I decided to walk through the scenario here in case anyone else runs into it. This . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Bind Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath
By Landon Ferguson, on July 11th, 2011%
By Jonas OReilly, on July 7th, 2011%
The advantages of using JSON enabled WCF service is that the data is communicated in plain text like stream, it does not require any data/message parsing. For exposing a WCF service as JSON enabled WCF service, we need to apply the [WebGet] attribute on the method of the ServiceContract with ResponseFormat as JSON. The binding used . . . → Read More: JSON Hosting :: Working with JSON Service in WCF Application
By Jonas OReilly, on July 5th, 2011%
Yesterday I encountered the following question in the MSDN forums about calling a cross-domain WCF RESTful service from Chrome.
The problem with doing the above is because there is a cross-domain call to a WCF service. When you are using Chrome, the browser tries to find out if it can do the call by sending a cross-origin . . . → Read More: Silverlight WCF Hosting :: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and WCF
By Landon Ferguson, on July 4th, 2011%
This post discusses to edit the displayed data in Silverlight page and save the changes back to database. Insert, Update and Delete operations can be done using domain service object context. All the changes you made to this object are collectively submitted to the database when you call the SubmitChanges method.
This post requires to create a . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Editing Silverlight page data using Domain Service
By Mark Latchey, on June 29th, 2011%
Often you’ll want to pass selected values from one page in a Silverlight 4 application to another.
Query Strings are a valid approach, but you might want to pass more than simple strings or IDs in the URL.
This quick walkthrough will show you to use access a simple static variable from one page, on another. This could . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Passing Values between Pages in a Silverlight 4 Navigation Application
By Mark Latchey, on June 23rd, 2011%
In this post I will show you how to create the custom splash screen for your Silverlight application. You have seen many software which use nice splash screen during loading of the software applications like Microsoft office, excel and many others. I have also created splash screen for my desktop applications which I have developed during . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Splash Screen in Silverlight 4