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Once of the interesting elements of this year’s MIX is the complete domination of Twitter as a medium for distributing updates. If you have been following me on Twitter (I’m @LACanuck), then you will already have heard a lot about the Windows Phone 7 development announcements. However, as useful as Twitter is, it’s not really a place for opinion. ...

  Expression Blend (3 and higher) lets you create Sample Data Sources, and for each property, select a data type and sample data format, such as Lorem ipsum, Colors, Company Names, Names, etc. It’s a nice list, which is great for prototyping. However, if you want to add to this list of types, or just edit the potential values for each type, ...

I learned a very important lesson about binding in Silverlight that I thought I would share.  Here is what I was trying to do: <TextBlock Text=”{Binding Path=MyPeople, Converter={StaticResource OldestPersonNameConverter}}” /> MyPeople is a collection of People and the converter is going to take that collection, find the oldest ...

This is a quick tip for anyone using WCF RIA Services with Entity Framework.  The WCF RIA Services team has fixed what I consider a fairly annoying ‘bug’ with Entity Framework.  In Entity Framework the EntityCollection class does not implement INotifyCollectionChanged, however the client side EntityCollection class that RIA uses is part ...

If you are using the XMLMetaDataProvider and have a dynamic assembly reference your service might fail with the following error:            The invoked member is not supported in a dynamic assembly There are two fixes for this problem, one is to use the full attribute names.  So ...

The current RIA Services project I’m working on has been using the XMLMetaDataProvider due to the fact that our model and DomainService are in different projects.  This rules out defining your metadata in a partial class for each entity.   As the project got bigger we noticed that randomly our metadata was not being created at build ...

This may result in a “geekasm” – you’ve been warned. http://stargate.mgm.com/photosynth   How’d they do it? MGM Stargate Case Study

Silverlight 3 will soon be released.  And to properly celebrate the excitement of its release, ObjectSharp is teaming up with Microsoft to present an action-packed first look at the UX3 platform, live from the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.  As one of the first companies to be featured on Microsoft’s Silverlight gallery, our ...

My final presentation in my April World Speaking tour was at the Toronto Code Camp this afternoon. As always, the code camp was a huge success. The efforts of many people went into making it so, but the organization was top notch. As part of the lead-up to my presentation, Joey de Villa made good on a promise to wear Microsoft branded assless ...

I was asked an unusual question yesterday about cookies, Silverlight and WCF. The scenario was that a Silverlight application was being used in a consumer-facing situation. The application itself communicates with the server using WCF. The service which is the target of the communication uses ASP.NET Authentication to authenticate the user. It’s ...