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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...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3.  There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest version is currently 3.0.40818), VS2010 has moved the minimum supported version to Silverlight 3.  The new installation experience will include the latest Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 GDR 2 SDK. If you already have the Silverlight 3 RTW version of the SDK installed, this component may fail during VS installation , but not to worry – it won’t affect anything outside Silverlight.  If this...

  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’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others.  It enables you to get software, support and business resources from Microsoft at no cost for three years, and enables you to expand your business and build great web solutions using ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint and PHP, and the open source applications built on top of them. What does the program provide? WebSiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for three years at no cost.  Once enrolled, you can download and immediately use the following software from Microsoft: 3 licenses of...

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today. I tweeted it, figured it was a throw-away tweet and it was "re-tweeted" several dozen times. Apparently there's a hunger for Beginner content out there! Who knew? ;) It's at http://www.msdn.com/beginner   and here's some of the cool stuff. Tell your 12 year old and your great-aunt, Dear Reader. There may be a programmer inside one of them. There's several tracks to go down, first the obvious Web Track and Windows Track , but also Aspiring Pro and Kid's Corner...