Did you know - Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2

by rahul 9/8/2011 9:35:31 AM

The extensibility of Visual Studio keeps surprising me. Did you know that there is an extension called Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2? Well, I discovered it not very long ago. Here is how you can get it, and others… Select Tools -> Extension Manager… &#... [More]

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Silverlight - Application Structure - 2 - Load assembly on demand

by rahul 10/12/2010 5:55:46 PM

In the previous post, we discussed about how to use Application Library Caching and its benefits. Although it sounds beneficial, you need to keep in mind that the benefits are more from a re-visit perspective. Sometimes, your application will have a bunch of pages, may be nested… and hence you may n... [More]

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Silverlight - Application Structure - 1

by rahul 10/12/2010 2:20:15 PM

This post will try to shed some light on the Silverlight Application and cater to the following questions… 1. How is a XAP file formed and what are the contents inside it? 2. What would be a good way to maintain the size of an application - Application Library Caching? 3. How to load assemblie... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight 4 and .NET RIA Services - Step By Step - TOC

by rahul 10/10/2010 3:04:57 PM

This post should act as a TOC for the .NET RIA Services series. I will keep updating this post so that I can share this with anyone instead of sharing all the links of the series Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points P... [More]

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Silverlight | RIA | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 9

by rahul 10/10/2010 2:02:00 AM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code b... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 8

by rahul 10/5/2010 9:19:29 AM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code b... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 7

by rahul 10/1/2010 3:03:00 PM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code b... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 6

by rahul 9/30/2010 1:22:00 AM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code b... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 5

by rahul 9/28/2010 3:24:00 PM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code beh... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 4

by rahul 9/27/2010 3:20:00 PM

Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter Part 3 > Consume entities exposed using RIA services with Silverlight [code b... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 3

by rahul 9/22/2010 10:07:00 PM

So far in this series, we have done the following… Part 1 > Setup database, create entity data model, create a simple domain service, and expose OData end points Part 2 > Consume OData Endpoints using Internet Explorer [or any other client] for that matter In this post, initially you wi... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 2

by Rahul 9/20/2010 9:10:00 AM

In the previous post, we did the following… Set up Chinook database Create a simple Entity Data Model that includes all tables from Chinook Database. Create a Domain Service class that exposes two ta... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight and .NET RIA Services - Step by Step - 1

by rahul 9/18/2010 4:31:25 PM

If you are still thinking, WHY learn .NET RIA Services, read this In the following series of posts, I will try explain how to work with .NET RIA Services using Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Proceed with binary setup from here if you don't have it installed already. You also need to setup Ch... [More]

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Silverlight | Visual Studio 2010