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Windows Phone 7 Tutorial Part 3 Available
Mon, Jan 10 2011 14:37
I just published the third tutorial in my series on Windows Phone 7. This part completes the Golf Handicap application by adding the ability to manage scores from rounds of golf. This was a very interesting exercise and provides a example of using OData and web services with Windows Phone 7. My initial design of the Scores view model was based on the ability... Read More...
WP7 Tutorial – Part 2: Managing Courses
Fri, Dec 24 2010 11:31
In Part 2 of this tutorial series , we start to build the actual Golf Handicap application for Windows Phone 7. It is highly recommended that you view Part 1 first because it shows how to set up the web service and communicate to it via the Windows Phone 7 and OData Protocol. In this tutorial, we start building the application by providing features to manage... Read More...
New Silverlight 4 & WCF RIA Services Tutorial
Thu, Apr 1 2010 15:06
I just posted a new tutorial that uses Visual Studio 2010, the Silverlight 4 RC, and WCF RIA Services RC. This tutorial walks through the creation of a Silverlight Client (a golf handicap application) that uses WCF RIA Services to maintain and update data stored on a server. The application is sufficiently complex to show some real-life requirements while not... Read More...
New Tutorial – WCF RIA Services Drag ‘n Drop with Silverlight 4
Sat, Dec 5 2009 15:29
The WCF RIA Services team released preview bits for VS 2010 (beta 2) and Silverlight 4 beta . I have put together a simple tutorial that shows how one can use drag ‘n drop to bring data to the user interface. I use the AdventureWorksLT2008 database to display customers, their associated order headers, and the line items associated with an order. This application... Read More...
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Deploying ADO.NET Data Services on a Hosted ISP
Sat, Nov 28 2009 10:20
When you deploy a Silverlight application that uses an ADO.NET data service to a hosted service provider, you need to make some changes in order for the service to work properly. The following describes the steps I took to overcome the problems. Thanks to Phani Raj Yayavaram Narasimha, Mike Flasko, and Elisa Flasko at Microsoft for their help resolving these... Read More...
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Placing Thumbnail Images in the Database
Sun, Sep 13 2009 10:43
In my entry titled .NET RIA Data Services & Images , it was pointed out that the July Preview of .NET RIA Data Services did not handle database images stored in the database very well (it produced large files returned to the client). It was also pointed out that this situation was being addressed and would be resolved. Placing actual images into the database... Read More...