Getting started with Silverlight and MEF, Import and Export(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

submitted by mark_W(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

A simple guide, showing how to load controls into placeholders using Silverlight 3 and MEF. read more...

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Mindscape LightSpeed 3.0 – Advocating a Commercial ORM(ericswann.org)

submitted by ericswann(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

Compares the features of Mindscape's LightSpeed 3.0 ORM with those of LINQ to SQL and NHibernate. read more...

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Dynamically loading controls in Silverlight(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

submitted by mark_W(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

How to dyanmically load different silverlight controls at Application Startup read more...

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Creating a reusable Silverlight login window – part 2(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

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Creating a reusable Silverlight login window read more...

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Creating a reusable Silverlight login window – part 1(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

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Creating a reusable Silverlight login window read more...

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Mindscape WPF Themes released(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 2 years, 5 months ago

Mindscape have released a suite of WPF themes to help developers deliver attractive applications faster than ever before. All source code is included so that UI tweaks can be made to create your own style or leave them as they are to have an Office 2007 style or Expression Blend look and feel. read more...

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Using Amazon S3 with Silverlight and RIA services(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

submitted by mark_W(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

I've been working on something recently that gave me a chance to try out Amazon S3 services. The first thing to mention is that I am using the SOAP API and not REST. Another thing worth noting is that I used a web reference rather than a service reference to link to the S3 services. read more...

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RIA Services, Shared Code and Silverlight(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

submitted by mark_W(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

Using the shared code feature, you can define code that RIA services will project ‘as is’ to the client...... read more...

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Silverlight BusyIndicator customisation(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

submitted by mark_W(145) 2 years, 5 months ago

Today I was trying to make the busy indicator silverlight control fit in better with the look and feel of the plugin I was working on. I always try to do as much as possible with just the xaml view in visual studio, for some reason I find expression blend hard to use. If I can’t write the xaml straight away I’ll open up expression blend and generate the default template from there. Having generated the template I am free to mess with the xaml. read more...

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Using Metadata for validation in Silverlight(mwoodhall.wordpress.com)

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Validation in silverlight using Metadata. read more...

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Serializing and Deserializing Objects as Binary! (hiberlog.wordpress.com)

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Simple example of serializing and deserializing. read more...

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JQuery 1.3.2 Released with much better performance(docs.jquery.com)

submitted by dmcgiv(370) 3 years, 3 months ago

The benefits of the new Sizzle selector engine are really starting to come to light as contributions from the larger JavaScript community come in. A number of additions have landed that have helped to improve the performance of the engine - especially in Internet Explorer. read more...

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Using Enums in List Controls(west-wind.com)

submitted by decarufe(959) 3 years, 3 months ago

Convert data to and from enums. read more...

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Azure – Performance, IoC, and Instances(ytechie.com)

submitted by SuperJason(2740) 3 years, 3 months ago

My experience so far working with Azure. Some performance testing, IoC container incompatibilities, and frustration with instances. read more...

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100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by jantu(1045) 3 years, 3 months ago

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category and Product table that will look something like foll... read more...

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Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by joycsc(1597) 3 years, 3 months ago

Fortunately VSTS 2008 provides a support for wide range of performance counters, from web page request per second to condition of physical disk, memories. Unfortunately, they are too huge that, initially testers/designers get overwhelmed with all of those, to find out a clear idea about the performance of the site they built. The number of counter parameters to be considered by the load tester/designers is greatly varies based on the type and size of the web application to be tested. Here is my favorite top 10 performance counters that I use on my each load tests, regardless of project size. read more...

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