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I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 . I was able to spend much of the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now includes RIA Services ) Completed Solution (starting step and demo files ) Check out the slides Starting Off I am starting off with the new Business Application Template that gets installed with RIA Services. This new template includes: Pattern for page navigation Log\Logout and new user registration support Localizable User settings Shared Code For this demo, I am going to used a customized version of the template.. After you create the project,...
I was lucky enough to be asked to go on a brief western European ReMix tour. Our goal with these events is to bring the best of Mix 09 (and some new stuff) closer to where some of the best developers and designers in the world live. A few of my co-workers are going to be heading out on the tour as well including: Ux expert Arturo Toledo , Adam Kinney of expression fame and architect extraordinaire Simon Guest . So you don’t want to miss this. Here is as much of my schedule as I know today… If you are in the area, please try to join me! Monday 28 September(Brussels) Visual Studio User Group 18:00 – 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines Check out the details: http://visug.be/Eventdetails/tabid/95/EventId/16/Default...
More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application . Today, we will talk about Different views of our application logic. Different Views Now, let’s take take a look at putting different views on this same application. One of the key elements to supporting different views is deeplinking. Let’s look at adding that to this application. First, we need to add a textbox to display the deeplink for each of our super employees. < TextBlock Text...
Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the brand new update to .NET RIA Services and the update the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application . Today, we will talk about Rich Data Query. Rich Data Query Next up, let’s talk about data query. Nearly every business application deals with data. Let’s look at how to do this with .NET RIA Services. We will start out in the web project. For this example I will use an Entity...
With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. You can watch the original video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008 ) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview (optional for this part of the demo) Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application . Today, we will talk about Professional Feel.. Professional Feel Business applications need to have a professional, but how many of us have a full time designer on our staff? I’d guess very few. That is why we invested...
Have you tried out the new Silverlight 3 Navigation Application? Our plan with this as to make it much easier to folks to get started building a RIA application with Silverlight. You can find it in the File\New Project dialog. The features it offers are: 1. An attractive, professional default theme 2. A clear application structure (MainPage, App.xaml, Views directory) 3. Error window for exceptions and bad navigations 4. Clear, easy to follow customization points. If you want to understand more about it check out the first part of my Mix talk . We pushed hard to get this into the beta in order to get your feedback on it. Traditional Microsoft has only shipped the “blank” project template so this is a bit of...
One of the reasons I love going to Mix is getting a chance to watch really world-class technical speakers. As I watched the keynote and a few sessions this year one theme really stood out to me: The audience seems to remember how the speaker handles their mistakes\crashes more than the content of their presentations! Obviously it this is a pretty hard thing for a speaker to prepare for. If you can prepaid for it, then I’d suggest avoiding it all together ;-). So how do you prepare for the unprepareable? It seems to me it is all about attitude. For me, my learning on this started when I arrived a day early for Mix. I had a chance to talk to one of my favorite speaking coach Richard Klees Read...
All great RIA applications have a meaningful client and server component to them. Supporting SEO, or Search Engine Optimization in a RIA is an excellent example of using the client and server components. It doesn’t mater how cool your applications are, if potential users can’t find your site via their search engine of choice (Google, Yahoo, Live, etc) then you are out of luck. So it is important to plan for that upfront. It is reasonably simple to do this for static text, even in a RIA application, but most of the really interesting information in many applications is dynamically loaded and data-driven. Luckily .NET RIA Services has some SEO support built right in that can be used with RIA...
Some folks that could not make it to Mix have asked about Scott’s coding demo this year. You can watch the full keynote to find it or, I clipped out just the coding bit.. As you can see we have added a lot of great support to Silverlight with Silverlight 3’s , Navigation, DataGrid, DataPager, DataForm, Charting (all from the Silverlight toolkit ) and the .NET RIA Services support for great N-Tier data access. Enjoy! Read More...
A couple of weeks ago Nikhil and I did a .NET Rocks show on .NET RIA Services and generally building business applications with Silverlight. Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! Read More...
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