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Keyboard and the Windows Phone 7 emulator
By default the WP7 emulator will not react to you typing on the keyboard, instead you have to use the mouse to press keys on the software keyboard that pops up. There is however a hidden feature that will let you use your hardware keyboard, just press...

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Combined DevelopMentor instructors blog feed.
Michael Kennedy , one of the co instructors from DevelopMentor , has created a combined feed from all the blogs of the various DevelopMentor. An awesome group of people with a lot of knowledge to share. Highly recommended in you RSS reader. http://feeds...

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Getting started with the .NET RIA Services
A recent article I wrote for the MSDN website just went live. Read is here .

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Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource
Using the declarative DomainDataSource that is part of the upcoming Silverlight 3 RIA services makes it quite easy to work with data. All you need to do is add a DomainDataSource control to the the XAML, point it to the generated DomainContext class ...

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Using Model – View – ViewModel with Silverlight
The View – Model – ViewModel design pattern, also known as MVVM, is getting more popular these days. I have found it extremely easy to use when developing very different applications and have used the design pattern recently in both ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight...

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Want to download all MIX sessions?
Then you should check Mike Swanson’s blog post here . He has two batch files, the first downloads all MIX session recordings with in the format you like, the second renames them so it is easier to make sense of all the media file names. If you just want...

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Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
The P&P team have just release a VB version of the Prism quick starts. You can download the goods here . Enjoy!

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Looking back at the MVP Summit
Last week lots of MVP, myself included, where in Redmond visiting Microsoft on our yearly MVP pilgrimage. The MVP Summit is always a great event. Not only do we get to talk to the MS team members who actually design and build all the software we love...

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SilverUnit - Unit testing framework for Silverlight
Roy Osherove has just released SilverUnit, a unit testing framework for Silverlight code. I haven't tried this yet but it certainly looks really interesting as you can start running your Silverlight unit tests inside of MS Test or NUnit. And kind...

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Patterns & Practices release Prism version 2
The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft have just released Prism version 2. I am pretty exited about this because Prism version 2 supports both WPF and Silverlight. And as it makes extensive use of the Model - View - ViewModel amongst other design...

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Lazy loading using Ninject
In my previous blog post I demonstrated how you can use Ninject in your Silverlight application to automatically inject dependencies and make live easier. In the sample I injected the dependency, the PingService, inside my PageModel constructor. That...

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Using Ninject with Silverlight to make you code more testable
One useful feature when developing more complex code is using an inversion of control (IOC) container to do dependency injection. The basic principal of inversion of control, or dependency injection, is to pass in any dependencies when an object is created...

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Consuming an ADO.NET Data Service from Silverlight
When developing Silverlight line of business (LOB) applications we often need to get at some data from a database. There are various ways to do so. One option that is easy to get started with with is creating an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (EDM) and exposing...

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Data validation - Silverlight versus WPF part 2
In a previous blog post I pointed out that quite a difference between data validation between Silverlight and WFP. As I don’t think adding data validation in the UI is a good thing I focused on validation in the business object by throwing an exception...

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How to know when the DataContext changed in your control
The DataContext is a wonderful property, you can set it somewhere in the logical tree and any child control can just bind to properties without having to know where the DataContext was set. A great capability that makes live much simpler when writing...

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Making sure asynchronous unit tests don’t cause a deadlock
In my previous blog post I wrote about creating asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. This asynchronous testing capability that the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework has in the box lets us...

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Unit testing in Silverlight part 3
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 This post continues on my previous two post on using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here . In the second blog post I showed how to create a wrapper around the WebClient class...

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Data validation - Silverlight versus WPF
When I am creating business applications validating the data in business objects, and displaying any errors, is always a big deal. Even though WPF and Silverlight both use XAML and support data binding the default way to display errors is quite different...

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WrapPanel in ListBox revisited
Last week logged about using a WrapPanel in a listBox and demonstrated how to get the content to wrap around, read about it here . Turns out the XAML can be even easier. In the previous post I used a ControlTemplate with a Grid to stop the WrapPanel from...

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Unit testing in Silverlight part 2
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my previous post I described the basic setup of unit testing in Silverlight, you can read all about it here . The basics where very nice but lots of code we write in Silverlight has to do with networking and in Silverlight...

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