Amazing Silverlight demo
A few days ago the Microsoft Health Common User Interface team released a great Silverlight 2 (beta) demo. Whether or not you’re involved in the healthcare sector, the Healthcare Demonstrator is a...
View ArticleGeneric custom WPF/Silverlight value converters
Data binding is one of the most powerful features of WPF/Silverlight. It allows developers to achieve more with less code. However, when building user interfaces with WPF/Silverlight, you often need...
View ArticleSilverlight 2 links
Now Silverlight 2 has been officially released I have been taking a closer look at this promising technology for building Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight 2 implements a full CRL and a...
View ArticleSharing source code between .NET and Silverlight
A common problem when developing Silverlight applications is how to share classes and especially (Entity Framework) entities which are compiled for the full .NET framework in a Silverlight...
View ArticleSilverlight posts and updates
The last few weeks several interesting blogposts and updates of tools and components for Silverlight have been posted. I will try to give a small summary: Microsoft released a minor update for the...
View ArticleSilverlight 3 beta & RIA services beta links
A week ago Microsoft demonstrated the first beta of Silverlight 3 and the new RIA Services framework on the MIX09 conference in Vegas. A lot of shortcomings from Silverlight 2 are solved and many new...
View ArticleFirst look at RIA Services
A few months ago Microsoft released the first preview of .NET RIA Services. This new framework promises to simplify building n-tier Line of Business (LoB) applications by providing patterns,...
View ArticleSilverlight 3 & RIA Services July CTP
Last week Microsoft released the official version of Silverlight 3, a new CTP (July 2009) of RIA Services and a RC of Expression Blend 3.0. SL3 is a major update and it is released 9 months after...
View ArticleAdvanced databinding with ViewModels in Silverlight
Silverlight and RIA Services are great technologies and the Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM) pattern is a nice approach to keep UI and logic separated. But using the combination of view models with item...
View ArticleSilverlight 4 beta and WCF RIA Services CTP
Yesterday Microsoft released some new preview and beta versions of Silverlight, RIA Services, Blend, Media Framework, Toolkit, … It looks like a major update with a lot of new features (webcam...
View ArticleSilverlight 4 design-time features for ViewModels
Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 offer a lot of new features. I like all the new features but I was especially interested in improvements that could help my current developments which...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 & Silverlight 4.0 RC links
A few weeks ago Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 (CLR, BCL, WPF, WCF, EF, …) release candidates have been released. Last week during the MIX ’10 conference Silverlight 4 & WCF RIA Services v1 RC...
View ArticleCustomize WCF RIA Services code generation
In March of this year SP1 of WCF RIA Services was released together with SP1 of Visual Studio 2010. Soon this was followed by a new version of the WCF RIA Services Toolkit. Microsoft has changed a few...
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