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Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4.  One would question the titles of my post.  COM and Cool in the same sentence?  Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM.  In order to access COM, you must install Silverlight application on a local [...]

Hello Everyone! We had a great time at the Columbia Code Camp this year.  A lot of great speakers and volunteers to help with the event.  We had I think around 150 people show up which was amazing since it was snowing, raining and freezing temperatures . I did my multi-touch presentation for the first time [...]

Yesterday I was asked about a way to play animations in MVVM environment. So, I gave this some thought today, and came up with a few ideas. First, and the easiest way is to separate ViewModel from animation by attaching an animation to a behavior.  Here is how we would write the behavior: public class MVVMSimpleAnimationBehavior : ...

Today I am continuing exploring WCF RIA Services.  I am going to discuss validation in RIA Services. Any business application needs to validate user input.  I am going to start with a simple case.  In my sample application a user can enter a company information.  I would like to setup RIA Services to force the user [...]

I am going to continue exploring the topic of RIA services and Silverlight.  I thought I was going to get into updates in this post, but there are a few topics I would like to cover first.  I am going to try to get to updates in the next post. Today, I am going to explore [...]

I know many posts have been written on this subject by many people, but I am writing this one mostly for myself.  I find it very useful to type my thoughts on any subject and create a sample project to help me commit more information to memory.  So, here it goes. What you need to get [...]

This is purely a bragging post I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, ...

I stoke at GGMUG (Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group) on Thursday.  I was speaking about dynamically styling Silverlight applications using Implicit Style Manager from Silverlight Toolkit.  Silverlight toolkit comes with about a dozen themes that anyone can use to style there applications.  In the example I posting I use four ...

I am killing two birds with one stone in this post, covering both CollectionViewSource and Navigation framework in Silverlight 3. To create new Silverlight application that uses Navigation framework, simply create new project in Visual Studio, and you will find Silverlight Navigation Application project template under Silverlight node.  ...

Today I am going to explore Silverlight three behaviors a little more.  In this post I am going to look at different events that can trigger an action in a behavior.  Essentially, we can specify any event on a target element to invoke a behavior.  Again, we are going to use TargetedTriggerAction base class. This [...]