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My Last Day at Microsoft

Wow I cant believe it has already been 13 years at Microsoft.  I have had a great time here and learned so much from the smart and passionate people I work with as well as the incredible develop...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Ajax Endpoint

Continuing in our series, I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed  your service in JSON.  This is very handy for Ajax clients.   The great thing is that enabling the J...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services

Continuing in our series, I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL service.   This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same business logic\data access...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization

To continue our series,  In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as such we need to know who is accessing what data and control certain data access to only users with ...

Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG)

I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in Israel.. we had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on building business applications with Silverlight and RIA Services...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data

  To continue our series lets look at data validation our business applications. Updating data is great, but when you enable data update you often need to check the data to ensure it is valid.&#...

A Great Time at Developer Academy 4 In Israel

I had a great time today at Developer Academy 4.  It was in a beautiful part of Tel Aviv.  The weather was great and the food fantastic.  They had well over 1,000 paid attendees, so t...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application

To continue our series, lets look at localizing our business applications.  In todays global village, it is often no longer OK to support only one language.   Many real world business a...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

To continue our series, lets 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 inc...

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 o...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client

To continue our series, lets 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, ch...

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, lets continue our series.     ...

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...

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client

To continue our series, lets 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, lets look...

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 buildi...

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 Ap...

Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW

At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are available for download now!  These bits work great with VS2010 RC.  We have some great videos, a...

Tell me about your services

My team has been doing a little thinking recently about the services space.  Basically I have been trying to figure out how folks think about accessing data and business logic across tiers. ...

Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work.  And in fact, just the other day, I ran into a problem getting my own samples to work.  It tu...

Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010

Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the technology.   In this interview I talked to Billy Hollis about Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010....

Field Level Access with RIA Services

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need...

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010 Now in Visual Basic!!

I had a great time at my talk  PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB So here is the next best thing: A full play-by-play of the demo, but all in VB! &#...

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didnt really get to walkthrough during the talk.   I thought Id do a blog post showing how it is d...

RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service Add Service Reference

I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service.  That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService.  I didnt have ti...

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

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 yo...

Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!

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 appl...

http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

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 conten...

We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation

  The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs.  Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Cont...

Lightweight Linq Parser

Jason Allor, dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser.  The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web se...

Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update

  Thanks to all of you who asked  I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to get done.   Hope you enjoy it! Part 1: Navigation Basics Part 2: Rich Data Qu...

Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins

  Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post, this action ...

PDC 2009 I cant wait!

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF t...

Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio Users Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

As a nice follow up from my Belgium Visual Studio Users Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines talk, I saw that they just posted the video (slides+audio).  Enjoy!   Oh, and i ...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 26: Authentication and Personalization

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to a...

Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

 ReMix in Lisban, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour.  They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun.  They did the Developer\designer egg shtick, bu...

Austria ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great.  The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice.  Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow...

Helsinki ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki.  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: ...

Belgium ReMix and Architect Forum: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium.    I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the t...

Belgium Visual Studio Users Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

I had a great time at the the Belgium Visual Studio Users Group meeting.  The turn out was excellent.  Thanks especially to Gill Cleeren  and Pieter Gheysens for hosting it.  ...

HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services

I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA Services.    We drilled a lot into the background for RIA Services and what the high level pattern...

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages

I got a lot of great feedback on my post Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages Now MEF Powered! Dinesh Chandnani decided to do an update to this sample after looking at the feedback and ...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 25: ViewModel

ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which enables a separation of concerns similar to that of the MVC pattern that is popular on for stateless web ...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding

A couple of people mentioned they are having problems getting adding to work in my example.    I think there are two issues that are getting people.  See the full series   1...

Western European ReMix Tour 2009

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 devel...

Silverlight 3 Navigation Application: New Themes and Tweaks

Corrina, head UX-designer for Silverlight,  just posted some cool new themes for the Silverlight 3 Navigation Application and, better yet, some ideas on how to tweak the ones that are out there t...

Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book

David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and RIA Services.   David has some great feedback for us from several real apps he has been wo...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    While many of the RIA Services examples we have shown thus far do CRUD directly against database table...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love th...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.  This time I take up a challenge from Mr. Wildermuth.  Shawn recently raised a very interesting issue with RIA...

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchal Data

Wow the gift that keeps giving.. I am *still* having fun updating my my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.   Would anyone be interested in a say 10 hour session at PDC2009 where we wa...

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