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To enable a Silverlight control to access a web service (like a WCF Service) in another domain, the service must explicitly allow cross-domain access. Doing so, a service states that the operations it exposes can safely be invoked by a Silverlight control, without potentially damaging consequences to the data the service stores. Silverlight s...

Cool!, just a few days ago (Thu Sep 25 2008) Microsoft P&P have published a neat 'Application Architecture Guide' (v.2.0). It is great because "it is new", so it covers most of the new Microsoft dev technologies and application/architecture types we're dealing with, nowadays. :-) Even though P&P have published just "the begining", in Januar...

Great news!, yesterday we launched Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate! It is quite probable that the final RTW build will be available shortly! I wanted to mention that because of we are still in BETA phases, it is more than likely that we have to check and update our code, because this new version will probably break our currents developments mad...

We're actually today running an event in Madrid about RIA Apps Architecture with Silverlight 2.0. The event content is oriented towards Software Architects. Our main speaker is Josh Holmes (RIA Architect Evangelists, based on U.S.) because he's starting a roadshow around Europe. After his speech, we'll run one hour about Q&A (Chalk & Talk),...

This is my second post about "Updating data using Entity Framework in N-Tier and N-Layer Applications". If you wanna read the basics, go to my first post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2008/09/04/updating-data-using-entity-framework-in-n-tier-and-n-layer-applications-short-lived-ef-contexts.aspx So!, I finished my first post say...

First of all, we are talking about using Entity Framework and how it fits within N-Tier and N-Layer applications, ok?, that’s our initial scenario. An N-Tier application is an application where you have 3 or more physical tiers. I mean with that things like, “Presentation/Client Tier”, “Application/Business Server Tier” and “Data Tier” (a database ...

  This is a useful post because SQL Server 2008 has just been released a few days ago, and we will have tons of labs and samples, most of them based on Microsoft sample databases like the new version of Northwind sample database, so, we’ve got this neat place in CODEPLEX where we can download different sample database versions. http://www.code...

The Zachman Framework is a grid of artefacts used to describe an enterprise architecture. Zachman does not require the whole grid filled. Nor is it necessary for only one artefact to correspond to each hook. It is therefore a fairly messy key holder. Nevertheless it is pretty handy. It prompts the architects to think about what is needed in a parti...

So!, so a few days ago I changed my role within Microsoft. I'm no longer "Dynamics ISV Evangelist" but now my role is "Architect Evangelist". I really like this change because Software Architecture is my passion and I do have experience in this area because that's what I was doing "in the field" before joining Microsof...

The concept of ISB is quite similar to the ESB but putting it in the cloud, Internet, so is it a way to connect/consume different "enterprise apps" thru Internet and therefore thru firewalls. But starting from the begining..., with platform technologies including Windows Server, the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, and other technologies,...