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,...
In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture , a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large part of jumpstarting your development actually centers around good tooling. VS2010 brings tooling for RIA Services (now: WCF RIA Services). Scott Hanselman demonstrated some key features used in building a Contacts application (as shown on the right) during the keynote at PDC09 . The latest version of RIA Services is now available for download. It works on .NET 4 and VS2010 as well. You can also check out a video tutorial on using RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010. In this post, I want to highlight...
You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file. Place html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html Run either x86 or x64 reg file depending on the OS and VS/VWD flavors installed. For example, for VWD Express installed on 64-bit OS run HTML-5-Schema-Reg-x64-VWD.reg and for VS 2008 installed on 32-bit OS run HTML-5-Schema-Reg-x86.reg. Restart VS You can select HTML 5 in the schema dropdown and HTML 5 element...
Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More...
Today at PDC09 , Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services . As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps. I am very excited about this release as it represents a lot of great feedback we have heard from many of you. A few goodies in this release based on your feedback You told us you wanted to get up and running with the UI quicker, so we enabled the “DataSources” window that allows you to drag and drop “tables” exposed by your Domain Service onto the form and get meaningful UI to start with. No more guessing about the Xaml syntax for databinding, or incantation...
Immediate thoughts after Ray Ozzie's keynote at PDC09 [ Full post continued here... ] Read More...
Every November comes around and I’m always reminded how many conference seem to take place about now, it’s kind of crazy – in a good way. I’m on to week three of travel, and haven’t seen my own bed in more nights than I care to count – but ah well! Where I’ve Been Last week was TechEd Europe in Berlin. A great conference with lots of good materials! Coincidentally it took place during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and the celebrations were pretty spectacular! While I was there, I recorded a couple of TechTalks with my good pal Matt, they’re worth checking out! Windows Internet Explorer Web Slices and Accelerator Analytics Do you have an Accelerator or Web Slice on your website? This talk will cover...
I’ll be at PDC tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. If you are attending and want to say hi, you’re most likely to find me in the Web Pavilion (in the big room, next to the Surface lounge). Please also join us for a panel discussion on Wednesday about Open Source on ASP.NET. We’ll have the following people on the panel to answer your questions, and ask you a few too: Scott Hanselman Shaun Walker Sara Ford Glenn Block Clemens Vasters Myself The discussion will be between 2PM and 3PM, in the Web Pavilion. Read More...
Every so often, somebody points out how bad of a metric code coverage is . And of course, on its own, it doesn’t tell you much: after all, it’s a single number. How could it possibly reflect all the subtlety (or lack thereof) of your designs and of your testing artillery? Of course, within all the various *DD approaches, some better than others enable you to know whether or not your code conforms to its requirements, but I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the general idea of a software metric and how it relates to the mothers of all metrics: physical ones, cause you know, I used to be a scientist. Proof: the lab coat on the picture. The theory of measurement is at the center of all experimental physics. This comes from the realization...
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...
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