Brij Mohan

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A common problem when developing Silverlight applications is how to share classes and in particular (Entity Framework) entities which are compiled for the full .NET framework in a Silverlight application. Silverlight is a browser plugin and a platform independent subset of the full .NET framework. Therefore Visual Studio does not allow referencing .NET assemblies from your Silverlight application.

Fortunately there is a very simple technique to share and reuse source code. Full details of which you can find in the link below

http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=ArticlesNET28&Lang=EN

In this article Stefan Cruysberghs demonstrated this technique with several real world examples and I will give you some handy tips.

• Referencing assemblies
• Linking files in Silverlight assemblies
• Using the SILVERLIGHT compiler directive
• Sharing code between WPF and Silverlight
• Sharing (POCO) entities between your .NET domain layer and Silverlight
• Sharing extension methods between .NET and Silverlight
• Sharing logic in your Entity Framework entities between your .NET domain layer and Silverlight
• Sharing common logic and separating framework dependent implementations

This linked has helped me, as I have SOA, where WCF Services, DataContracts, ServiceContracts are shared between my ASP.NET , WPF and Silverlight application.

As currently I am working on Migration from Silverlight 2.0 to Silverlight 3, so I thought to share or bookmark few of the important links which I am going through.

Find below the links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645049(VS.95).aspx

Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

The following list encompasses all changes made between the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release and the Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release.

Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 Changes

The following list encompasses all change made between the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 release and the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release.

Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 change list.

In the process of upgrade there are few more challenges I am going to face

Upgrade of my WCF Services to implement Silverlight 3 Validation controls, as my DataContract is residing in Service Layer, and I am using WSSF to generate the WCF DataContract, ServiceContract, etc. As all the DataCOntracts are AutoGenerated so implementing the Validation in Silverlight will be bit tricky.

Since I am still in the process of upgrade, so if you too have some good links which will help me to upgrade my Services as I mentioned above then please do share here.

Thanks

Brij Mohan

1 Layouts Presentation.zip

2 Introducing_Silverlight_2.zip

3 Introductionto Silverlight 3.zip

4 Silverlight Control Lifecycle.zip

These are the Slides of the Silverlight Presentation which I had given on 17th July 2009, other useful links where you can download the examples and Installers are given below.

WHAT’S NEW IN SILVERLIGHT 3?

Download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

This download will install the following:

• Silverlight 3 developer runtime
• Silverlight 3 software development kit
• KB967143 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  KB967144 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
• Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1

The Official Site of Silverlight | Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Expression Blend 3

Silverlight Community

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Offline Documentation

And for all other things,

http://www.silverlight.net

And for those who are mostly involved in Silverlight Designing

http://www.kirupa.com/blend_silverlight/index.htm

http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc184874.aspx

There are few basic concepts which I have used in my Presentation like Automatic Properties, Object Initializers, LINQ, etc you can find almost all these in Scott’s Blog

Thanks

~Brij