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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.

Archive for tag: WCF

  • RIA Services Demo from PDX Code Camp

    The demo I presented at the Portland Code Camp on Saturday was a modified version of Brad Abrams' multi-part RIA Services walkthrough. You can find a full index to the series on Brad's old blog. The completed application is also available from that page. I also used AdventureWorks as the database. You can grab the AdventureWorks sample databases from codeplex.

  • Your Suggestions Wanted: Silverlight, WPF, WCF RIA Services, ASP.NET Planning

    Did you know about the feature submission and votings sites we run in dev div at Microsoft? Silverlight feature suggestions WPF feature suggestions WCF RIA Services feature suggestions ASP.NET feature suggestions Each of those sites is monitored by community PMs like me, Tim Heuer, Jesse Liberty, John Galloway and Scott Hanselman as well as product team members. I've b...

  • Silverlight 4 Release: Happy Third Birthday, Silverlight!

    I've watched each ctp, beta, and release of Silverlight with delight. I wrote a production application in 1.1a and never looked back. This will be my first Silverlight release as a Microsoft employee, and I'm happy to say it doesn't disappoint. Three years ago today, the name "Silverlight" was officially announced, and the tong-twisting code-name "WPF/E" was no longer. As a 'softie...

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/5/2010

    This is Windows Client Developer roundup #19. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, Silverlight and Windows Phone. If you have something interesting you've done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog.  ...

  • New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services

    I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know. Henry Sowizral The first is with Henry Sowizral. Henry and I chat about what it takes to take a real application, with tons of legacy C, C++ and even a...

  • Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client

    Lately I’ve worked with a number of customers who are familiar with non-service-based ways of accessing their business logic. They typically come from one of two backgrounds:Client developers where the only connection out of the application is to the database. Web developers where all the logic exists on the server In both cases, they’re not typically working with physical applicati...

  • Creating a Silverlight WCF Binary Encoding Client in Code

    In Silverlight, it can sometimes bet better to skip using the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file and instead create your WCF clients from code, specifying the endpoint address. This was pretty simple in Silverlight 2 where all we had was basicHttpBinding. Silverlight 3, however, adds in the ability to use binary message encoding via the binaryMessageEncoding element in the server-side WCF conf...

  • Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight

    One thing that often comes up when developing Silverlight applications is the desire to share entity classes between Silverlight and server-side code in WCF. .NET RIA Services handles the sharing for us automatically. But you’ll find yourself needing the functionality in cases where you’re simply not using .NET RIA Services. Sharing in WCF happens by default when you mark up your entities us...

  • How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 2 of 2

    In Part 1, we created a Facebook application using ASP.NET. Now, in Part 2, we’ll cover how to add Silverlight into the mix. I’ll assume you have the Part 1 solution working. If not, go to that blog post and download the project files linked at the end of the post. Install the Silverlight 2 Developer Tools If you haven’t done so already, install the Silverlight 2 Developer tools from Silverli...

  • I’m in it for the Technology

    My annual review is coming up. This is the time when you’re encouraged to reflect on what you’ve done over the past year, and what you want to be when you grow up. While thinking through mine yesterday, and thinking about the ones from the past twelve years, I came to a realization: I’m in this for two reasons: I love the technology I love seeing others get excited about technology ...

  • MSDN geekSpeak On Wednesday May 28 - Connecting Silverlight 2

    I'm really looking forward to next week's geekSpeak with Andrew Duthie and Glen Gordon. In that show, I'll be talking about (and showing code, of course) different ways to connect Silverlight 2 applications to the outside world (WCF, REST, Sockets etc.) Date: May 28, 2008 Time: 3:00pm eastern, noon pacific time Glen runs a really unique webcast in a format I really like. It's more like...

  • Got Duplex? (Silverlight 2 and WCF Duplex Communications)

    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...

  • WCF Integration in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

    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...