As some of you might know, a new RC has just been released for VS2010 – it’s supposed to be much more stable and faster than the second beta.  However, as of now, there’s no Silverlight 4 support, we’ll have to wait for a new release of the Silverlight assemblies.  Which means those of you... [More]

A few weeks ago, the new VS2010 beta was released, including a long-awaited upgrade of WPF, which enables features like the Visual State Manager for WPF.  Next to that, a beta of Silverlight 4 was released at PDC last week, which – amongst others – enables SL Out of Browser to run i... [More]

When you’re working with the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in Silverlight, sooner or later you’ll run into the same problem most of us run into: what about animations?  Theoretically, if you want to follow the MVVM design pattern you’re using, your animation should be initiated... [More]

When working with RIA Services, a lot of your code is generated automatically, but you'll still need to write quite a lot of custom methods and you'd typically write them in your DomainService-class.  But what if you add an Entity to your datastore?  What if you want to add some CUD-operat... [More]

Since the previous part in this series, the final version of Silverlight 3 has been released, and a new version of RIA Services has been released: the July 2009 drop.  This release includes quite a few changes, so I had to change my demo source code around quite a bit to make it work with the n... [More]

Quick, short & to the point: Silverlight 3 has just been released!   Download links: runtime & dev tools.  (note: Scott Hanselman just twittered they're still in the process of uploading this to all sites - you might want to try again in a few hours if something doesn't work). &... [More]

In the first part of this series, I talked about some general concepts, and went into reading, updating, adding, deleting data using RIA Services.  If you haven't read it yet, you might want to read up on that, and maybe read up on the introductory post as well.   In this part, I'll talk... [More]

Welcome to the first in a series of RIA Services How-To's.  Unless mentioned otherwise, all these tidbits will use the latest drop of RIA Services (at the moment, this is the May 2009 drop).  When new drops arrive, changes may have to be made, inherent to beta software.    But,... [More]

First of all, welcome to a completely new blog-look! :-)    The last few weeks, I've been playing around with RIA Services (for Silverlight 3), which "simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provid... [More]

One day, two posts! :-)  A member of the Silverlight .NET forum asked how he could go about making a Silverlight combobox editable.  Well, it's actually easier than you might think, so for all of you who want this kind of behaviour: here's how you do it! :-)  The same technique can al... [More]