A group blog from members of the VB team
April 21, 2011Apr 21, 201104/21/11I am back with details on how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls in Silverlight. In this walkthrough, we will see how to work with Panels, XAML, and Controls to create a Data-Driven Silverlight Interface.
During this walkthrough we will cover the following topics:
How to use the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer,
April 19, 2011Apr 19, 201104/19/11In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing ASP.NET/jQuery application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight.
Here are some topics that we will cover:
How to use the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer
XAML and Silverlight control concepts
How WCF services can be integrated into Silverlight applications
Silverlight data binding techniques
How to make asynchronous calls to services
How to work with cross domain services
Similarities between ASP.NET and Silverlight applications
Before you begin you need to download the offline kit from the Firestarter Labs,
April 18, 2011Apr 18, 201104/18/11In this walkthrough, I will demonstrate how to convert an existing Windows Forms application that consumes data from a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to Silverlight. Also in the process of conversion we will ensure that the existing functionality is preserved.
July 18, 2008Jul 18, 200807/18/08This week on the VB Dev Center we’re featuring another community submitted article by Maurice de Beijer (VB MVP) on Using Windows Communication Foundation with Windows Workflow Foundation. Maurice has a great wiki as well that you should check out if you’re doing Windows Workflow development.
November 2, 2007Nov 2, 200711/2/07There’s a new article up on the VB Dev Center by Rob Windsor, a follow up from his first Getting Started with WCF article, called Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation. Rob explains how to serialize your own custom business objects using WCF DataContracts and what issues you may run into in Visual Studio 2005.
September 10, 2007Sep 10, 200709/10/07I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with John Stallo talking about some cool tools in Visual Studio 2008 that will help you build simple N-Tier applications. Thanks to Kathleen again for helping with the shoot! This time we got fancy and used two camera angles ;-):
Building N-Tier Applications in Visual Studio 2008In this in interview John Stallo,
August 30, 2007Aug 30, 200708/30/07One feature in Visual Studio 2008 I would like to highlight is our support of Windows Communication Foundation. WCF was introduced with .NET Fx3.0 as a next generation communications API. Previously if you wanted apps to talk you needed to make a lot of up-front decisions:
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How important is transmission speed?o How will apps talk?
