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As I was working on one of my personal learning projects, I encountered a small problem. The project was Prism based with multiple modules.  I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such as styles.  This approach works just fine by using merged dictionaries in [...]

Today I would like to cover a specific use case that came up a few times in Silverlight applications I wrote.  For example, I wand a user to enter some sensitive information, encrypt it in Silverlight client, transfer it over to the server, then decrypt it and perforation some operations on that data. First step of [...]

Today as I was working on a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2010, XAML Intellisense just stopped working for me.  Quick internet search yielded no useful results, so I was to figure this out on my own.  Just to test I created a brand new application, and Intellisense was fine there.  Logical answer was that [...]

In my last post I am going to cover the last two topics I set out to address.  The first topic is UI testing.  What unit test frameworks lack sometime is the actually UI testing.  What I mean by that is for example, click on a button, then see what happens.  In case of Silverlight, [...]

Windows Phone 7 Developer tool beat has been released by Microsoft.  You can download it here. Make sure to download and read release note available on the page above.   Thanks.

In this post I will explore ability to mock various Silverlight classes in order to enable mocking in your unit tests.  There is a variety of mocking frameworks available, but I will pick one for my testing – Moq.  You can download the framework here,  Once this is done, I need to add some references [...]

In this post I will describe how to create asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight applications.  First of all, I’d like to point out that any communication with a server component in Silverlight must be asynchronous.  Reason being is that if communication was synchronous and the remote service was not responding, browser which host ...

I am starting a short series of posts on unit testing of Silverlight applications.  I will be using the following set of technologies.  Microsoft Silverlight Unit testing framework that ships with Silverlight tool kit Moq – mocking framework that supports Silverlight 4 StatLight – unit testing automation framework that will allow for ...

As I was working on one of my presentations, I wanted to go to a detail from from query form by letting user double-click.  No standard Silverlight controls implement double-clicks, and this includes DataGrid.  So, naturally one would need to listen to click events and interpret clicks within a certain time to be a double-click.  ...

With all the current fuss about PowerPivot it is easy to overlook one of the other hot technologies coming our way, Pivot Viewer.  The Pivot Viewer is a Silverlight data visualization tool for rendering large amounts of data in a more meaningful way.  Today’s post is about showing the relative ease of putting together a quick demo of ...