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Silverlight-Business-Applications
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At Microsoft we often talk about "consumer" applications and
"line of business" applications as separate classes of apps.
Sometimes, applications that intersect both worlds come along. A
few weeks ago, I was turned on by Scott Hanselman, to a
soon-to-be-launched Silverlight application named MarketsPlus Evolve.
My immediate impression was that this was an app with an attractive
UI with ...
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I want to help Windows Forms developers transition applications
to Silverlight and WPF. To do that, it will help me to understand
the types of applications that are being maintained or newly
developed in winforms today.
Specifically:
What does your windows forms app do? Can you describe its key
scenarios?
Where is your database access happening?
ADO.NET calls from the co...
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Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston. My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter, or message me on twitter via @pete_brown. Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted to mention. Tons of good Silverlight links and information below, even for folks who didn’t attend the DevDinner. Introduction The “Hello Wo...
Published
Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Events, RIA, Expression-Encoder, Expression-Blend, Business-Applications, Seema-Ramchandani, Silverlight-Business-Applications, scottgu, WorldWide-Telescope, Marc-Schweigert, MIX09, Synthesizer |
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I’ll be presenting two sessions (communications and biz apps) at the Silverlight 2 firestarter in Malvern PA this weekend. If you want to learn how to build Silverlight 2 applications now, and be prepared for what’s coming with Silverlight 3, I encourage you to attend this full-day event. Here’s the skinny: Silverlight 2 Firestarter Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, a...
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The Expression Newsletter is out. In the current issue, you’ll find my article about styling charts in the Silverlight Toolkit. I learned a lot while writing that article, and I hope you learn a lot from reading it. As promised, here’s the follow-up article on using overlays. I’m looking forward to seeing some cool data visualization in Silverlight 2!
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I was snagging some icons to go into a comp of a Silverlight LOB
application today when I realized that some of the metaphors used
in the software we're refacing (Silverlight front-end to an
existing LOB application), just don't hold anymore.
While it is instantly recognized by folks who have been with
computers for a while, I think the 3 1/2" floppy save icon needs to
die.
Back wh...
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Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet applica...
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In a previous post, I introduced the Chart control from the Silverlight Toolkit. In this post, let’s cover how to make the charts look more interesting. First, we’re going to create a simple label/value class to hold the data for the chart. In the previous example, we just used a collection of doubles, but that didn’t provide any labels. namespace PeteBrown.SilverlightToolkitExamples
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I was going to present an analogy using different types of cars, but more often than not, the analogy breaks down on some key point or carries some baggage that just doesn’, and folks start picking apart the analogy and assuming it still applies to the real discussion. The only way to get a perfect analogy is to just talk about what you’re talking about :). So anyway… Why is it ok to bark abou...
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In my previous post, I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed.This is one of the challenges with working with async service calls. Rather than have a single function that makes a bunch of inline service calls one after the other, you need t...
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The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates.By abstracting it out just a little and applying concepts from other bus patterns, we gain a ton of flexibility and can use it for more specialized messaging th...
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Eugene Osovetsky made a pretty exciting announcement yesterday regarding pushing data to Silverlight in Beta 2. Beta 2 will likely include a new WCF capability for duplex services based on DuplexReceiver<T>. IMHO, this helps eliminate socket coding for some of the more common scenarios: Chat applications Data update notifications in biz apps There will be both a client (Silverl...
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The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more.April 22 - April 24 2008Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel Two Miss America WayAtlantic City New Jersey 08401United States Solutions Focused· Health 2...
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If you are looking for some great Silverlight 2 charts and graphs for data presentation (not interactivity at this point), check out what the people at VISIfire have come up with. Besides being a great example of what one can do with vector drawing, and a quick way to get very good looking charts and graphs in your app, you get all the source code (GPL) for each so you can easily create your ow...
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The webcast recording is now online. To view the recording, register for the livemeeting and then click the view online or download links.Enjoy!
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Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common requirements in business applications.When I built Windows client applications (which doesn't happen that much any more, much to my disappoin...
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Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday's webcast. In the past, I've used slideshare for uploading slides, but if you use non-standard fonts, the processing munges it. This time, I've posted PDF and XPS versions of the slides. The XPS version is a bit larger, but has better fidelity. Slides in XPS Format Slides in PDF Format The slides also include the eye chart at the end which compares ...
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I'll post a link to the recording once I have that. In the mean time, here are some of the links mentioned in today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications webcast: Silverlight 2 Woodgrove Bank Sample Application Source Code for same (also includes a demo script which has more in it than I demonstrated today) Silverlight 2 Controls Demo Silverlight.net, the Official Silverlight C...
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In preparation for my Silverlight for Business Applications webcast today, I decided to look more deeply into how Silverlight works with services. I originally concentrated a lot on security, and had a much larger post on how to secure your services, but ran into some issues there. More on that below.WCF Service Requirements for SilverlightIn Silverlight 2 Beta 1, WCF services must be set up to...
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A recurring problem that both Silverlight and Flash developers have to deal with is the volatility of the browser. One place where this can really hurt you is if, for example, you want to pop up a donation page or other straight browser content at the end of your application workflow (or anywhere in between). When you popup a window from Flash or Silverlight in IE7 (and in most popup blocke...
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I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows off tons of features, and you can infer even more from the screenshots. I think it's great that Scott has been able to finally provide some real de...
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WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications. It's the last category that I find of particular interest as while those applications don't always get the attention that the others do, they will be,...
