By Landon Ferguson, on July 15th, 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 . . . → Read More: WCF Service Hosting :: WCF Service using ASP.NET AJAX Library
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 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
By Jonas OReilly, on May 4th, 2011%
We upgraded a Silverlight 3 RIA application to Silveright 4 bits. Once we fixed all the errors, it appeared that RIA generated entities were “over-validating” themselves. We noticed that all the string entities that were marked not-nullable in database were giving validation errors saying “Field XYZ is required”. We looked through the attribute metadata classes and . . . → Read More: WCF RIA Hosting :: WCF RIA Service adding extra Required attribute on generated classes
By Landon Ferguson, on April 28th, 2011%
Introduction
This article will talk about 4 simple steps which will assist you to consume WCF service in a Silverlight application. It also has a simple sample source code which demonstrates all the 4 . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: How to Consume WCF Service in a Silverlight Application
By Landon Ferguson, on April 21st, 2011%
Silverlight is great. Silverlight 4 is extra great. If you know a little bit about WPF and a handful about the ViewModel Pattern, you’re in great shape. If you’re like me, you tend to mock up your user interfaces and user interface functionality using only client-side functionality before you start to make calls back to the . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Silverlight 4 Synchronous WCF Service Calls (or “How to avoid writing a 1-tier Silverlight App”)
By Mark Latchey, on April 16th, 2011%
This section will provide a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a new RIA services project using a shared DLL for server side code and a simple Entity Framework model for data access. All projects are created with the consistent ArchitectNow.RIAServices filename prefix and default namespace. This would be modified to match your companies standards.
- First, open . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Setting up a new Silverlight 4 Project with WCF RIA Services
By Mark Latchey, on April 4th, 2011%