A second hot fix has been made available for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate that solves another IntelliSense related crash. Get the hot fix Information here. There are now two hot fixes.
One thing that often comes up when developing Silverlight applications is the desire to share entity classes between Silverlight and server-side code in WCF. .NET RIA Services handles the sharing for us automatically. But you’ll find yourself needing the functionality in cases where you’re simply not using .NET RIA Services. Sharing in WCF happens by default when you mark up your entities using [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes. However, I find polluting my classes with those to be really ugly, as well as limiting. I also dislike the handling of namespaces on the client.
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Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight
PETA and AIS just completed a great Silverlight 2 application for the Animal Testing Breaks Hearts campaign. Almost exactly two years ago, in time for the 7/7/7 Live Earth event, AIS created the first Silverlight managed code application ever to go live. It was a carbon offset calculator written for Conservation International using Silverlight 1.1alpha. AIS’s RIA practice, Silverlight itself, and the tools like Blend, have all grown since then. Two years later, and we’re again working with a non-profit on a socially conscious application. This time, the cause is animal testing rather than environmental conservation, and the technology is the final version of Silverlight 2 rather than an early alpha preview of the technology For this application, PETA supplied all the comps in Adobe Illustrator format and AIS converted the assets into Silverlight. Tad Van Fleet took the heart images and others and imported them into Blend 3 using the new Illustrator import function, and created the appropriate Xaml
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Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts
Last year ObjectSharp took Toronto by storm with the blockbuster hit Visual Studio 2008 at the Movies . That was so 2008. This July, the much anticipated SQL comes to a theatre near you (assuming you live near John and Richmond in Toronto). Silverlight on the Silver Screen will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you see the beauty that is XAML data binding. See Sith Lord Barry Gervin use the Force to move Silverlight apps out of the browser. See Dave ‘Binary Dump’ Lloyd take debugging t
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ObjectSharp Presents ‘Silverlight on the Silver Screen’ – July 9
When developing Silverlight applications in Visual Studio, writing XAML by hand is error prone and somewhat difficult. That’s where Expression Blend comes in to make the task significantly easier….
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Silverlight 3 Made Easy with Expression Blend
John Papa has a tip on how to save some time and prevent Visual Studio to open your XAML files in preview mode . If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated … because sometimes Visual Studio cannot even display the preview. Also, whenever the XAML page is opened in Visual Studio, it takes a wh
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How to turn off Visual Studio preview mode for XAML views
Introduction This post is just an early look of upcoming Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit. I know that this is very early state but I’m writing about this here because I would like to get the feedbacks from the community so that I can prioritize the plans based on what the community want. If you are a fan of WPF MVVM Toolkit then you will probably like it. Download : SilverlightModelViewApplication.zip (15 KB) Features The toolkit includes: A Visual Studio 2008 Proje
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An Early Look at Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit 1
Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 introduces a whole new set of .NET technologies that will revolutionize, once again, the way you develop smart client and web-based applications; the most notable being LINQ, WPF and, of course, Silverlight. For most of us working in and around web application development in the business world, Silverlight is a big step forward; especially if you consider that it provides clean coding practices with extensible languages (e.g. XAML and C#). It also provides some of
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Chart FX Shines for Silverlight TM Today
If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated … because sometimes Visual Studio cannot even display the preview. Also, whenever the XAML page is opened in Visual Studio, it takes a while to “try” to display the View in preview mode. There really is no value in the preview mode (aka Cider) with Silver
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Turning off Cider
[This post comes to you curtsey of Windows Live Writer – an excellent blogging tool, and the code snippets from the Paste from Visual Studio plugin.] Say you want to have a base page XAML that offers some functionality, and you’d like to keep that functionality but insert your own. For example, you want to write XAML for a window with a title bar, border, and a close window icon, and then you want to write XAML for the different content that will be displayed inside the window. The differe
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How to derive from a base page in Silverlight
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