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Nederlandse CodeCamp 2009
Op 21 november 2009 organiseren de SDN , Stichting dotNed en VBcentral samen het derde Nederlandse Code Camp . Dit is een dag lang met code, code sharing, freaking en gezellig samenzijn. Een evenement door ontwikkelaars, voor ontwikkelaars. De regie ligt...

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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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Software Development Event march 30th
Just one week to go to the next Software Development Event. The schedule with all the sessions is looking good. But this time there is even more! We will have a Microsoft Surface machine somewhere in the common area for people to try our. And if you have...

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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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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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Returning exception information to a Silverlight client through WCF
Error handling code can be a drag but the simple fact is that everyone needs to write it because runtime errors can and do occur. Developing a Silverlight app is no different here, exceptions will occur and you as a developer will need to deal with them...

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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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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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PDC session download
Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx . You see all sessions...

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Calling WCF services from a Silverlight 2 app.
As far as I am concerned Silverlight 2 is pretty cool and should have been developed years ago . Well guess that isn't the case but it is here now. One thing I like about Silverlight is how easy it is to call a web service. I guess that is a must...

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