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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 (in this case NorthwindContext) and tell it which method...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Mon, Apr 27 2009
    Filed under: .NET, VB, DevCenter, Silverlight, Data Access, ASP.NET

  • 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 applications. However easy as it might...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Tue, Apr 7 2009
    Filed under: .NET, DevCenter, WPF, Silverlight

  • 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 a list of all sessions with download links this...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Tue, Mar 31 2009
    Filed under: .NET, LINQ, NetFx3, WCF, VB, webcast, DevCenter, WPF, IronPython, Silverlight, ASP.NET

  • 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 and use but we also get to meet each other. And with...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Sat, Mar 7 2009
    Filed under: .NET, LINQ, NetFx3, Workflow, WCF, VB, DevCenter, WPF, Silverlight, WF4

  • 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 cool to hear this is written in VB You can find more...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Wed, Feb 25 2009
    Filed under: .NET, VB, DevCenter, Silverlight

  • 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 patterns it is a great place to learn, even if...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Wed, Feb 18 2009
    Filed under: .NET, NetFx3, DevCenter, WPF, Silverlight

  • 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 worked just fine because the PingService is lightweight...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Tue, Feb 10 2009
    Filed under: .NET, NetFx3, WCF, DevCenter, Silverlight

  • 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 and not create them when needed. This way the...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Mon, Feb 9 2009
    Filed under: .NET, NetFx3, WCF, DevCenter, Silverlight

  • 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 that entity model using an ADO.NET Data Service...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Tue, Jan 6 2009
    Filed under: .NET, LINQ, NetFx3, WCF, DevCenter, Silverlight, Data Access

  • 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 when the value was not acceptable. As Beth pointed...
    Posted to The Problem Solver (Weblog) by Maurice on Tue, Dec 30 2008
    Filed under: .NET, DevCenter, WPF, Silverlight
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