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Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application

channel9 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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)

Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book’s web site.

endpoint.tv – Workflow Services as a Batch Job

channel9 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:34:00 +0000

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.

WF4 Batch Job Example (MSDN Code Gallery)

Ron Jacobs
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter @ronljacobs

Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes

channel9 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:48:00 +0000

Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on the show to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes include:

Jet Pack
Cosmopolitan
Windows 7
AccentColor

She also takes a deep look at the cosmopolitan theme and shows how you can customize it, if need be. Tsitsi wraps up by demonstrating some tips you can use to maintain design consistency in your application, including how to apply a simple behavior to your TextBox and content presenters. Tsitsi drops a ton of great design tips throughout this episode—you don’t want to miss it.

Relevant links:

John’s blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
Tsitsi’s blog post

Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty, and John Papa, today! Or, check out the book’s web site.

Silverlight TV 41: Top Tips for WCF RIA Services

channel9 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

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:

Entity Framework
LINQ to SQL
nHibernate
Your own custom business objects

Other topics Dinesh walks step-by-step through include:

hooking RIA Services up to your own POCO classes
adding role-based authorization
how to determine what objects will be exposed by RIA Services to the client
adding validation
identifying keys and associations for entities
indicating when to return object graphs
how to use the Composite attribute to bundle objects graphs

This is a great deep dive by one of the masterminds behind WCF RIA Services.

Relevant links:

John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
Nhibernate and RIA Services sample
PDC 2009 talk using same nhibernate sample: Mastering WCF RIA Services
Dinesh's blog and on Twitter (@di_Ku)

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv

Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book's web site.

endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 2)

channel9 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:38:00 +0000

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.

Tellago Studios SO-Aware
endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 1)

Ron Jacobs
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter @ronljacobs

endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 1)

channel9 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:57:00 +0000

Tellago Studios SO-Aware
endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 2 – coming soon)

Ron Jacobs
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter @ronljacobs

endpoint.tv – Workflow Services Security Pack

channel9 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:49:00 +0000

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

Use PrincipalPermission based authorization
Work with Username and SAML tokens
Impersonate the caller
Create client credentials for calling services
And much more...

For more information see
    Windows Workflow Foundation on CodePlex

Ron Jacobs
blog        http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter    @ronljacobs

endpoint.tv – How to Make a WorkflowService Implement a Contract

channel9 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:17:00 +0000

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.

I also wrote this up on my blog.

How to make a WorkflowService implement a contract
Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

Ron Jacobs
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter @ronljacobs

Advanced Silverlight Navigation Scenarios – Part 2 (Silverlight TV #39)

channel9 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000

In the second of two navigation videos we filmed, Karl Shifflett joins John Papa to demonstrate how he made some simple extensions to the navigation API in Silverlight in order to solve very common business problems. Karl demonstrates how to navigate away from a screen and leave markers indicating that the screen is still active even though it is hidden. He also demonstrates how to manage state while navigating between different pages.

This episode is jam packed with a ton of great navigation strategies and tips that you won’t want to miss.

Relevant links:

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endpoint.tv – Making of The Lab – Intro to WF4

channel9 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:13:00 +0000

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.

Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio Gallery)
Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (MSDN Code Gallery)

Ron Jacobs
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
twitter @ronljacobs