As mentioned in my previous post, my BESUG session on Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight was recorded.  Well, today, it was posted at Channel 9!   For those of you who want to listen to my session, these are the links (att: in Dutch):   http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/adebruyn/Dem... [More]

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on MVVM at BESUG yesterday (and thanks for the nice comments ;-))!  As promised, you can find the slidedeck and code here.   Included: Powerpoint slides, completed solution and DB Backup.    What you need to run this: Visual Studio ... [More]

As promised, here is the content from my Demystifying MVVM session @ Techdays Portugal.  For those who weren’t there, there’s a lot of stuff in this demo code:   MVVM base classes, Connecting VM’s to V, using the Locator pattern Connecting them using MEF Unit Testing ... [More]

As some of you might know, the company I work for is hosting a BESUG session on Silverlight & RIA Services shortly (October 15th / click here to register!), for which I am the speaker.  At the moment, I’m composing a few of the slides and writing up some code, and I was wondering: if ... [More]

So, the holiday season is over for most of us, I hope everyone had a nice few weeks off – I know I had :-)    Time to get back on track!  Quite a few things are coming up in the next days/weeks/months: a new version of the Silverlight Drag and Drop Manager is coming up (watch ... [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]