A while ago, my company decided to launch a new marketing campaign, showing of some of the things we’ve done in the past.  To accompany this campaign, we decided to design a showcase site.  This showcase site shows of a whole lot of customer cases, technology flyers, solutions sheets... [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]

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]

Up until a few weeks ago, I thought of Silverlight (and other RIA-techs) as a great technology, which could easily keep on existing next to the HTML-pages we're used to.  Newssites like CNN, blogs like Wordpress or Blogger, ...  I didn't think these would be replaced by RIA's anytime soon.... [More]