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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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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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.NET RIA Services and data communication
I was working on an article about the .NET RIA Services and decided to fire up Fiddler to take a close look at the data actually passed around. I was sort of expecting to see a WCF REST based approach with XML messages. Turns out I was wrong, though I...

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Surface at the last Software Developer Event
As was to be expected the Surface machine at the last SDE was a big success and with lots of people wanting to have a go at it. Nice to see the interest. And I am grateful Martin Tirion from the Dutch Microsoft office let us borrow the machine for a day...

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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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Getting T4 templates to work with Silverlight
In a previous blog post I mentioned that T4 templates didn’t quite work with Silverlight development. The reason being that Visual Studio decides to load the Silverlight version of System.dll which doesn’t contain all the required classes...

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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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Using T4 templates with Silverlight
Everyone who has Visual Studio 2008 also has T4 templates that can be used to generate code, or anything else textual for that matter. Using T4 should be pretty easy but unfortunately Visual Studio kind of hides the fact, there is no “Add T4 template...

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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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Changing the MouseOver effect on a Silverlight ListBox
One thing I occasionally have to do is  change the way a ListBox item behaves. For example the blue highlight effect when the mouse hovers over it.   Changing the blue mouse over effect to something else, say the item growing slightly isn’t...

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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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Unit testing in Silverlight part 4, the UI
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework it isn’t just possible to unit test regular code we we can also start to unit test user interface controls we create. Doing so is very similar to the asynchronous unit test we created...

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