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Snapshot of Silverlight 4 Wish List
David Yack
writes "...I had some help pulling together a summary of what people are asking for...The following is just a snapshot but thought you might find it interesting...The top 10 or so on the list all had multiple people requesting those items..."
Workaround for RIA Services Domain Data Source Invalid Property Errors
David Yack
writes "...I’ve been caught in this trap a few times as I scratch my head trying to figure out why it thinks DomainContext is invalid when I know for sure it is a valid property. Unfortunately, there’s not an inner exception that you can get more details from so you are kind of stuck! So how do you get more info? The quickest way I have found..."
Training Kit is a Fast Ramp up on VS2010 and .NET 4
David Yack
writes "The training kit is a good way to get to know some of the new features of .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010...You can download..."
How to Suppress ValidationException in Silverlight During Debugging
David Yack
writes "...Validation for Silverlight .NET RIA Services throws a ValidationException if during validation it detects invalid data. When your debugging this can cause your debugger to break on the property setter each time a validation error occurs...You can turn off breaking on this unhandled exception by adding the type to the list of exceptions and unchecking breaking on user-unhandled exceptions of that type. Go to the Debug"
Windows End to End Security Changes
David Yack
writes "...One highlight I saw was the right click enable of Bitlocker on a disk volume...Another good one is on mobile security...you will be able to have multiple active firewall policies...DirectAccess basically sounds like it deals with the need to jump on / off VPN to get to server resources like a SharePoint stored file. BitLocker To Go..."
Silverlight 3 Data Services Error CreateNativeRequest
David Yack
writes "...The application uses ADO.NET Data Services to do some queries for lookup values and other application data. After a few tweaks for minor things to get it to run on Silverlight 3 I was off and running trying to get it to work out of the browser...Just when I thought things were going well I got a weird error on a Data Services calling “CreateNativeRequest” Looking at the stack trace of the error showed this:..."
Fix for Silverlight AG_E_PARSER_BAD_TYPE Errors
David Yack
writes "...What’s even more interesting is what I’ve found fixes it and gets the InitializeComponent() method to run fine. Simply by creating an instance in the code behind of the Lib B user control prior to calling InitializeComponent does the job...So as you can see in the following example adding the dummy instance of MapBuilderControl did the job..."
Silverlight 3 Set to Change the Business Landscape
David Yack
writes "
...The reality...its potential for being able to build rich business applications is really where it starts to get interesting...consider the number of .NET capable developers...it becomes clearer how Silverlight traction will begin to outpace competitors...The time has arrived for anyone involved in business application architecture and related technology decisions to begin to engage in understanding the changing landscape. This would include..."
Why Tooling Determines the Cloud War Winners and Losers
David Yack
writes "...By tooling I mean how you manage your cloud assets and gain insight into what is happening inside the cloud. When running in the cloud we give up some level of control and in some cases are abstracted from the low level day to day operations...Tooling is also the first thing you start to notice..."
How to Spin The Numbers or Metrics That Matter
David Yack
writes "Statistics are like photos, only believe them if you created them. Just like Photoshop can tweak a photo to make it look awesome, statistics can be shaped to deliver your own message...This isn’t a new issue, most large companies fall into the trap at some point, including Microsoft, Google...So what got me thinking?"
2009 Predictions A Year of Focused Innovation
David Yack
writes " ...I don’t believe we can always control change, but we can help focus it’s results...If your not excited yet about focused innovation in 2009, you can be thrilled that your not in the marketing department. Marketing of products in 2009 is going to be a challenge...In some ways all the cloud offerings have come just in time, they help lower the cost of entry to many innovations. For new startups..."
Silverlight Layout Cycle Detected
David Yack
writes "This is an interesting error I ran into while mocking up a page. Turned out it was due to some of the test data I was using, but the result was needing to think if this could happen in the real implementation...this is a high priority bug, however till it’s fixed you should be aware of the behavior..."
Silverlight Layout Cycle Detected
David Yack
writes "This is an interesting error I ran into while mocking up a page. Turned out it was due to some of the test data I was using, but the result was needing to think if this could happen in the real implementation...this is a high priority bug, however till it’s fixed you should be aware of the behavior..."
Silverlight Compatibility Issue With Design Surface and Isolated Storage
David Yack
writes "As your Silverlight applications get more sophisticated you might run into a situation where a UI element ends up invoking a method that uses Isolated Storage. In our case we were caching some metadata locally to improve performance. It turns out there’s some compatibility issue with the design surface and Isolated Storage..."
Silverlight MeasureOverride Watch Your Size
David Yack
writes "...tracking down a strange unhandled exception I was getting. The error basically said “Value was Out of Range”. Of course telling me which value or what the value was not an option! The worse part about the error was it was bypassing my unhandled exception handler and just crashing the Silverlight application..."
Code for Adding Target to ASP.NET Menu Control
David Yack
writes "Out of the box the ASP.NET menu control doesn’t support setting a Target on a menu item. You can easily add support for this by adding a target node to the site map xml and then adding a event handler to set that on the menu item at data binding time. So for example..."
Lesson Learned Connecting Silverlight 2 Apps to WCF Service
David Yack
writes "A common error you might run across the first time you try to connect a Silverlight 2 application to a WCF service is HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type. This is caused by the fact that Silverlight 2 can only consume WCF"
CRM Services Part of Azure
David Yack
writes "...There are two building block services that I think you will find very interesting Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services. While not available yet in the CTP of Azure that was released, these elaborate on strategy Microsoft is evolving to recognize the broader ability of both these products beyond things like simple CRM..."
ASP.NET MVC: 4 EyeOpeners About This Beta
David Yack
writes "...Starting to see new Visual Studio Automation – you can now click Add View from within the controller – so now more having to File –New...The new feature will follow naming conventions and create a view folder for the controller if it doesn’t exist it will also allow you to set the typed view from the dialog...JQuery is now in the script folder"
Moving to .NET 3.5? Pick Up the Enhancements Training Kit
David Yack
writes "...kit covers a lot of the .NET 3.5 SP1 features but there is also a training kit for .NET 3.5 - If you have new developers moving to .NET 3.5 you might want to check out that training kit here..."
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