On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations.
Relevant links:
- John’s blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
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Sometimes you have work that you want to schedule for off-peak times or have happen on a recurring schedule, such as every 3 hours. While there are many ways to do this, Workflow Services are an interesting option. In this episode, I’ll show you how you can create a service that accepts start, stop, and query messages, and supports scheduling.
On this episode, Dinesh Kulkarni shares his top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications. He walks through some key decision points while creating domain services (server side) for a Silverlight and RIA Services application. Among the tips Dinesh discusses are some of the benefits of creating the minimal number of entities, operations, and amount of data required for your application. He also discusses how to connect RIA Services to:
SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and…you just have to see it in action.
SO-Aware is an exciting new tool you can use with your WCF Services. This is not just another UDDI registry. Rather, this is a tool that works for SOAP, REST, and OData services and…you just have to see it in action.
Some of the big gaps with Workflow Services have been in the area of security. In this episode, we will see the new Workflow Services Security Activity pack, which fills these holes, allowing you to 
WorkflowServices don’t provide a way to implement a contract, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get them to look like they do. This is useful if you want to create a client proxy using a ChannelFactory. In this episode, I’ll show you what I learned about the messaging activities to make this work.
The new Hands On Lab Intro to WF4 is quickly becoming a hit. As I mentioned in the getting started video, this lab is a prototype designed to test the idea of producing a lab experience directly inside of Visual Studio. Since I released this, a number of people both inside and outside of Microsoft have asked me how I created it. In this episode, I’m going to show you the IntroToWF4 Feature Builder project, how it is implemented, and some hard lessons I learned along the way.