QuickStarts

This article is Part 6 of the series WCF RIA Services:

1. Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
2. Querying Data Through WCF RIA Services
3. Updating Data Through WCF RIA Services
4. WCF RIA Services and MVVM
5. Metadata Classes and Shared Code in WCF RIA Services
6. Validating Data with WCF RIA Services
7. Authenticating and Authorizing Calls in WCF RIA Services
8. Debugging and Testing WCF RIA Services Applications
9. Structuring WCF RIA Services Applications
10. Exposing Additional Domain Service Endpoints for Other Clients

Introduction

In Part 5 I discussed metadata classes and shared code, and one of the example uses of metadata classes I showed was using a [Required] validation attribute to cause some validation on both the client and server side.

This article is Part 4 of the series WCF RIA Services:

1. Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
2. Querying Data Through WCF RIA Services
3. Updating Data Through WCF RIA Services
4. WCF RIA Services and MVVM
5. Metadata Classes and Shared Code in WCF RIA Services
6. Validating Data with WCF RIA Services 
7. Authenticating and Authorizing Calls in WCF RIA Services
8. Debugging and Testing WCF RIA Services Applications
9. Structuring WCF RIA Services Applications
10. Exposing Additional Domain Service Endpoints for Other Clients

Introduction

In this article, I am going to quickly cover the metadata and shared code facilities of WCF RIA Services.

 This article is Part 2 of the series Sketchflow from a developer point of view:

1. SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part I - Basics 
2. SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part II - Dev Stuff

More Sketchflow questions, scenarios and advanced Sketchflow issues will be covered by Braulio Diez in his upcoming webinar: Sketchflow in Real Scenarios.

Intro

In the first part of this article we learnt why was so important to add to our lifecycle a quick and dirty prototyping stage, and learnt as well how to perform that basic sketch prototyping using Sketchflow.

So far so good… till now the sensation you can have can be something like: Ok, Sketchflow is just another prototyping tool… in this second part of the series we are going to check what makes Sketchflow an advanced prototyping tool: sketching some static images or canned / styled controls with some basic navigation is not bad but not good enough !! We need to validate with the client animations, gestures, behaviors….

This article is Part 4 of the series WCF RIA Services:

1. Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
2. Querying Data Through WCF RIA Services
3. Updating Data Through WCF RIA Services
4. WCF RIA Services and MVVM
5. Metadata Classes and Shared Code in WCF RIA Services
6. Validating Data with WCF RIA Services 
7. Authenticating and Authorizing Calls in WCF RIA Services
8. Debugging and Testing WCF RIA Services Applications
9. Structuring WCF RIA Services Applications
10. Exposing Additional Domain Service Endpoints for Other Clients

Introduction

The Model-View-ViewModel pattern (MVVM) is a very popular approach for building more loosely coupled Silverlight and WPF applications.

1. The Problem

In this article I’ll show you a simple solution for navigation between pages in different Xaps, by using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Recently I hit the following issue, while playing with MEF. Suppose that you have a Silverlight Navigation Application. Your application is partitioned in different modules (plugins, extensions, add-ons or whatever). Let's imagine that 
your application has three plugins – Orders plugin, Products plugin and Suppliers plugin, as shown on the snapshot below.

This article is Part 2 of the series Sketchflow from a developer point of view:

1. SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part I - Basics 
2. SketchFlow from a developer point of view - Part II - Dev Stuff

More Sketchflow questions, scenarios and advanced Sketchflow issues will be covered by Braulio Diez in his upcoming webinar: Sketchflow in Real Scenarios.

Introduction

Sketchflow is a great tool for prototyping, that’s great for designers, but… for developers? of course !!!

In this article we are going to step through Sketchflow functionality from the point of view of a developer.

To check how Sketchflow works we will:

• Simulate the startup of simple project: a  local community web site, that will hold news / events / members plus and admin area.
• Insert video snippets in between the article to show how to perform certain operations using Sketchflow.

In the first part of this series on duplex communication in Silverlight 4, we did a deep dive in one of the available options offered by the platform, namely the Http Polling Duplex binding. It’s advised that you read that article first, since this second part continues where we left of in the first part.

To summarize the first part quickly, we saw that Silverlight applications in some situations can really benefit from duplex communication. In scenarios where the client needs to be updated because of changes in the state of the server side (for example a change in a database, a file change…), the best solution is working duplex.

Introduction

In the previous article (Displaying geo-referenced Flickr images in Silverlight 4 using Bing Maps) we covered how to retrieve photos from Flickr using their API, and displaying them on a map (Microsoft’s Bing Maps control). In this article, I’ll be showing you how to upload your own photos to Flickr, and geo-tagging them.

The FlickrNet library

Sam Judson has a library on Codeplex for accessing Flickr services from .NET, called FlickrNet.

This article is Part 2 of the series Silverlight Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM

• WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: The Basics
• WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Create, Update, Delete and Validation
• Introducing Telerik OpenAccess Data Service Wizard
• WCF Data Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM
• WCF End Points Services with Telerik OpenAccess ORM
• Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part I: Connection to SQL Azure
• Silverlight Applications for Windows Azure with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: Developing the Silverlight Client and Deploying the Application

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This article is Part 3 of the series WCF RIA Services:

1. Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
2. Querying Data Through WCF RIA Services
3. Updating Data Through WCF RIA Services
4. WCF RIA Services and MVVM
5. Metadata Classes and Shared Code in WCF RIA Services
6. Validating Data with WCF RIA Services 
7. Authenticating and Authorizing Calls in WCF RIA Services
8. Debugging and Testing WCF RIA Services Applications
9. Structuring WCF RIA Services Applications
10. Exposing Additional Domain Service Endpoints for Other Clients

Overview

In Part 2, I covered the query capabilities of WCF RIA Services in a little more depth.