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Silverlight and Data

Tim and I and many others have been discussing, off and on, the frequent requests for videos/tutorials/demos, etc. that show how to move data into and out of databases and display them in Silverlight. On the one hand, my response is that the very question reveals that we've not done a good enough...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-19-2008
Data Binding – Data Validation

The third and final Data Binding topic I'd like to cover for now is Data Validation. I'll modify the code discussed yesterday we're going to validate the Quantity on Hand field, already marked as two-way (that is, the user can enter a new value and it is stored in the underlying business...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-13-2008
Data Binding – Data Conversion

One of the more interesting topics that arise in Data-binding is that of Data Conversion. So much can be accomplished without explicit conversion that it is easy to overlook… until you hit the real world. To see this, I'll make a small modification to the code I wrote for the Silverlight Tutorial...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-12-2008
Data Binding – Margin Notes

We have a couple tutorials and videos about Data-binding, and once you grok the basics, it is reasonably straightforward. Tutorial – Data-binding Video – Data-binding There are a couple interesting concepts at the edges that are worth calling out, however. The topics I'd like to cover in this...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2008
New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code. This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding and Data Templates using Expression Blend DataBinding...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
Three New Videos On Data Binding

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted three new videos on DataBinding and on DataTemplates (creating templates that control the display of a collection of data in a list control such as a list box) Unfortunately, we swapped the images for the Blend video and the Xaml video which is a bit confusing...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
Silverlight Debugging Challenge

In about a week, I'll be posting a video on creating a form that responds to keyboard shortcuts (as an intro to a video on user controls). This is also covered in the tutorial User Controls ) As a challenge to those of you who are already comfortable with styles and data-binding and who "don't...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008
How do you know INotifyPropertyChanged is Working

Today I had the great enjoyment to make two presentations to the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference here in Atlantic City. While showing DataBinding, I became interested in demonstrating the effects of INotifyPropertyChanged, The basic mechanism is this; you add a PropertyChangedEventHandler...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
Binding Data How Do I Video Posted

I'm pleased to say that we've posted a new How Do I Video on Binding Data to Silverlight 2 Controls. In the very beginning of this video I say it is about "wiring up events" but I'm confused and befuddled -- it is, of course, about binding UI objects to business objects. This is...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
Tutorial: Data From a SQL DB via WCF (using LINQ)

My 4th tutorial Displaying SQL Database Data in a DataGrid using LINQ and WCF is now available, as is the source code and a version of the tutorial in PDF For the moment, I recommend the PDF version as the images are clearer. We're fixing up the HTML versions of all the tutorials even as I write...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-04-2008

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