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In the last few months I have heard this question at least dozen times from  existing customers and new prospects. I replied back to them via email and in person during presentations. I’m sure there are lot of people out there with the same question in mind. So, I thought I’ll write...

Introduction In part 1 we setup the scene by creating a simple Silverlight/WCF application. In that application the Silverlight application is initialized, it made a call to the underlying WCF service operation "GetWelcomeText" and displayed the text on the UI. We used the basicHttpBinding...

Introduction In this article we are going to see the end to end integration of Azure AppFabric Service bus and Silverlight. First we are going to create a very basic "Hello World" Silverlight application that interacts with a WCF operation called "GetWelcomeText" and displays the...

Just a quick tip, when you are trying to debug a Silverlight application by putting break point in the Silverlight code and you see the message " Breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols loaded for this document." with a hallow icon and warning symbol. The reason for this is, Silverlight...

By default Silverlight applications are allowed to access resources (services) only from the location from where they originated. From Silverlight 2.0 support was included to access services from a remote server (cross-domain), as long as the remote server allows the Silverlight application to access...

I know this post is overdue, but I’m happy to say that in the time since MIX has elapsed, my wife and I have sold our condo and moved to a new home. I’ve also transition to a new contract, and I am excited to get my feet wet my new project. Despite [...] Blog Post by: bdewey

Hi folks, I thought I’d share something that captivated me on this rainy Easter day and that was Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vstudio/async (you’ll need VS2010 + SP1 before you grab the CTP) There’s a new improved compiler + an extended library for us. Hands...

When you are trying to build a solution that contains Silverlight or WPF projects using MsBuild you may encounter the error "CS0103: The name ‘InitializeComponent’ does not exist in the current context". While searching I have found various tactics that involves editing the project...

Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. In my keynote this morning...

On December 2nd we are holding a free, all-day event focused on Silverlight.  You can attend it either in person on the Microsoft campus (where you’ll get to network with a bunch of Silverlight experts, and meet the product team), or watch it streamed live online.  The all-day event includes...

Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week.  A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he...

I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped the final release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools.  You can download them here . What is Included? The Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools package includes everything you need to write awesome applications and games for Windows Phone 7.  All...

Earlier today we shipped the beta of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools.  You can download them here . What is included in the Windows Phone Developer Tools The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – a new free, express edition of Visual Studio...

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly find what you’re looking for. It’s ability to compare...

Our samples over at http://code.msdn.com/wcfazure had gotten pretty stale, so I just put out an update that gets everything working on Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, and the latest Azure tools. Enjoy! Yavor Georgiev Program Manager, WCF

The final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available for download .  Download and Install If you already have Visual Studio 2010 installed (or the free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express ), then you can install both the Silverlight 4 Tooling Support...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] 23 months after the original post on Generating Deterministic GUIDs , I still find myself doing it fairly often and still using the same code (MD5 may not be suitable for secure scenarios, but it's fine for generating GUIDs for normal development...

Yesterday I posted a long blog post explaining how to do duplex communications in a Workflow service. Its a long story but the most important points where that workflow services don’t support the same style duplex communication as WCF with the callback channel defined in the ServiceContract but...

There are quite a a few cases where it is useful to have a duplex communications. An obvious candidate is allowing a service to notify the user interface application of the progress so the user knows what is happening. Normally, when using plain WCF , you would use a ServiceContract attribute with a...

We recently released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight 4.  You can browse the training kit online or alternatively download an entire offline version of the training kit .  The training material is structured on teaching...

I been working for a while on an internal application involving the following technologies. Silverlight 3, .NET 3.5 VS 2008, Prism, WCF RIA Service Beta, Silverlight Toolkit (Nov 2009 Release) Project Statistics: Here is the content of our VS solution file, quite reasonable sized application. .NET Library...

The final release of Silverlight 4 is now available. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] What is in the Silverlight 4 Release Silverlight 4 contains a ton of new features and capabilities.  In particular...

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the MSDN subscribers download center.  If you...

Note: This blog post is written using Silverlight 4.0 RC 1 One of the cool new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to data bind to indexed properties. This means that even if you don’t know at design time what properties you data object has you can still data bind to them. The syntax is very similar...

Keeping the raging iCant do a thing; iCant fwd a txt msg or voice mail iPhone debate… the new Windows Phone 7 Tools are in here all its Silverlight glory. Imagine being able to play a FLASH movie on the phone! shock horror. So grab the next big thing and look out phone world….the way phones were meant...