WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data posted
Part 6 of my series on WCF RIA Services is now live here: Read more...
.NET Ramblings - Brian Noyes' Blog, 27 August 2010, 9:58pm
Hidden Toolbox Search feature in VS 2010
Yesterday I was getting frustrated wading through the dozens of Silverlight controls
in my toolbox trying to spot one I needed, and it occurred to me that there “ought
to be an add-in to search the toolbox”. Just to make sure I wasn’t missing something,
I contacted Karl Shifflett from
the Cider team, who has written some awesome extensions to Cider and the XAML editor
himself. He reached out to the right people on the VS team, and lo and behold, there
is already a hidden search feature there. Read more...
.NET Ramblings - Brian Noyes' Blog, 21 August 2010, 10:51am
Upcoming WCF Master Class in Minnesota
From October 11-15 I’ll be conducting a WCF Master Class in Minneapolis. This class
covers the breadth and depth of WCF all in one week. You can find the course
information here. Read more...
.NET Ramblings - Brian Noyes' Blog, 17 August 2010, 2:51pm
WCF RIA Services Part 5 is out
Part 5 of my 10 part series on WCF RIA Services is now up on The Silverlight Show
at http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/WCF-RIA-Services-Part-5-Metadata-and-Shared-Classes.aspx.
In this article, I explain the role and use of metadata classes to add attributes
and functionality to existing entity classes that you cannot easily modify directly,
such as the properties on an Entity Framework entity. Additionally, I show how you
can define chunks of shared code on the server side and how they become available
client side through the RIA Services code generation. Read more...
.NET Ramblings - Brian Noyes' Blog, 17 August 2010, 1:38pm