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New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services by dwahlin

Microsoft’s been hard at work on a new distributed data framework now called WCF RIA Services. I recently finished up a new article for Dr. Dobbs and Information Week that provides an overview of WCF RIA Services including the following topics: Using...
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Need a Little Help from My Developer Friends Out There! by dwahlin

UPDATE : Thanks to everyone who voted! It looks like I'll be presenting on Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight Applications at MIX10. MIX10 is right around the corner which should be a lot of fun especially if you’re interested in Web and...
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Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications by dwahlin

The subject of Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) containers has received a lot of attention over the last few years.  Building applications that are loosely coupled has become more and more popular (and for good reason) especially...
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Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications by dwahlin

With the increasing popularity of Silverlight as an application development framework the discussion of patterns has grown louder and louder. Fortunately the majority of developers building Silverlight applications have agreed on a pattern that fits well...
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DevConnections Conference Code and Slides by dwahlin

I’m in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections conference and wanted to get the slides and code posted for the talks as I give them. This time around I’m talking about Silverlight (including a full-day workshop), the new Microsoft Ajax Library script...
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Passing Multiple Records to a Stored Procedure in SQL Server by dwahlin

There are so many different ways to work with data that it can make your head spin.  Regardless of the technology, one thing I always try to do when working with databases is minimize the number of calls that are made.  I use ORM frameworks...
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Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend by dwahlin

Silverlight provides the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to styling controls.  If you don’t like how something looks you can tweak the template in a tool like Expression Blend quickly and easily and get something completely different. ...
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Requiring SSL For ASP.NET MVC Controllers by dwahlin

There are quite a few posts out there about switching to SSL when a user visits specific areas of a website but I figure the more the merrier so here’s yet another one. My company is in the process of rolling out an ASP.NET MVC site for a client and specific...
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Creating a Silverlight DataContext Proxy to Simplify Data Binding in Nested Controls by dwahlin

Data binding is one of my favorite features and something that I use a lot while building Silverlight applications.  Silverlight makes it really easy to bind data to different controls and move data from controls back into the original bound object...
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Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 – Pros and Cons by dwahlin

I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about how Silverlight 3 can or can’t do various things lately throughout the blogosphere and Twitter . The sad part is that some of the people giving their two cents about what Silverlight can’t do haven’t built...
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