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Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight
On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here ).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we’ll ship the final release of it next month...
Mix2010: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight
I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight .   You can find all the slides (more than I was able to cover in the talk) here .  and the the full play-by-play of the demo (include a link to the completed solution...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
To continue our series , let’s look at SEO and Silverlight.  The vast majority of web traffic is driven by search. Search engines are the first stop for many users on the public internet and is increasingly so in corporate environments as well. ...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client
To continue our series , let’s look at updating the data.  I have created a Plates.xaml page with very similar structure to the above.    For details on how I created this page, check out my PDC 09 demo walk through.    ...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services
OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over the web. To show off OData in RIA Services, let’s continue our series .       We think it is very interesting to expose...
I was going to get an iPhone, BUT ……..
My cell phone contract expires in a couple weeks and I was all set to buy an iPhone. The iPhone had started to take off when I got my current phone / contract but at that the time Microsoft paid for a significant portion of my phone bill so staying with...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client
To continue our series , let’s see where the fun comes in my look at how easy that is to consume from the client.  First just to help you understand what is happening behind the covers, let’s look at a code-behind solution.  In View\Home.xaml...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework
To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your application.  The interesting data in your business applications come from a wide variety of data sources.  From a SQL Database, from Oracle...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template
To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not plumbing code.  The first place you will see this in the pre-build components in the Business Application Template.  It describes a prescriptive...
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index
With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all-but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some of the key features of the platform and tools that make Silverlight a fantastic platform for building business applications.    I’ll avoid...
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