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We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services.   We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good stuff up there.  http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ Read More...

Jason Allor , dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser .  The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web service, custom business objects, etc).  This makes it much easier to get all the sorting, paging, filtering benefits of RIA Services for any arbitrary data store.     Check it out, and be sure to subscribe to Jason’s blog as I expect he will have more goodies coming in the future! LinqLite Read More...

  Thanks to all of you who asked…  I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to get done.   Hope you enjoy it! Part 1: Navigation Basics Part 2: Rich Data Query Part 3: Authentication Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store Part 8: WCF Based Data Source Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider Part 10: LinqToSql Part 11: The Client-Only World Part 12: DataSet Part 13: The New Class Library Project Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support Part 15: ASP.NET MVC Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service Part 17: Evolving an Application Part 18: Custom Linq Provider Part 19...

Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated into French!  Partie 1: les bases de la navigation Partie 2: l'accès aux données Partie 3: L’authentification   Thanks Yannick, i hope there are many more to come! Enjoy! Read More...

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from being accessed expected by trust parties.    The web is increasingly becoming a personal place – applications often “know about you” enabling users to having customized settings that work everywhere the apps works.  In this example, I will take our ever popular SuperEmployees application and augment it to show more details on the authentication and personalization.  You can see the full series here . The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services...

  ReMix in Lisban, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour.  They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun.  They did the Developer\designer egg shtick , but with a real egg! My this point, I have really hit my stride with the the Silverlight 3 overview I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control Toolkit Samples Silverlight SEO Silverlight 3 Navigation Application Themes Slidentity In the next session, I did was on .NET RIA Services..  You can find the demo I did http://bit.ly/4tmJA3 and the full series .  Here is the diagram we used to walk through...

ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great.  The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice.  Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow , .NET RIA Services and Sql Azure .  I had the opportunity give the Silverlight 3 overview today and again I had fun doing it.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control Toolkit Samples Silverlight SEO Silverlight 3 Navigation Application Themes Slidentity After lunch,  I did was on .NET RIA Services..  You can find the demo i did http://bit.ly/4tmJA3 and the full series .   On...

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki .  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day ) Silverlight 3 Control Toolkit Samples Silverlight SEO Silverlight 3 Navigation Application Themes Slidentity The next session I did was on .NET RIA Services..  You can find the demo i did http://bit.ly/4tmJA3 and the full series . Read More...

I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA Services .    We drilled a lot into the background for RIA Services and what the high level patterns we are addressing with RIA Services.  < <The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams/> Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on the rebirth of 3-tier architect, XML, REST and JSON. What's this thing about and is it the best way to write data-centric apps with Silverlight?     Enjoy! Read More...

ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web apps today (for example: ASP.NET MVC).  John Gossman was the first one I heard talk about the pattern from his days working on Expression Blend .  Of course, this was is simply an application of Martin Fowler’s Presentation Model pattern.  In this example, I will take our ever popular SuperEmployees application and re-write it with the ViewModel pattern.   As with any emerging patterns, there are lots of variations, all with their strengths and weaknesses.. I have picked an approach that I felt was best as an introduction...