Just a quick follow-up: we uploaded the application sample as a code library item named "Using OpenAccess with SilverLight and Ado.Net Data Services"

and it is available at: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/orm/general/using-openaccess-with-silverlight-and-ado-net-data-services.aspx

After we prepared our data service it is time to put some client UI into it. I must apologize in advance as the only UI that I’ve used is a ListBox control, and it looks… well pretty much ugly. The goal was to proof that the whole setup works as expected, not to design a profound UI solution. I am pretty sure that as a follow up, our SilverLight team will enhance the sample to a full-scale integration example very soon.

To start with, add a SilverLight application in your solution:

In the process of adding you will ...

In my previous post we looked into providing data to the client using ADO.NET Data Services and Telerik OpenAccess. However it is very rare just to present data, as usually some processing is done by the application on the client side, data gets modified and it is pushed back to the server for persistence. With ADO.NET Data Services this is done by implementing the IUpdateable interface by the data context class used on the server.

NOTE: We do not implement IExpandProvider at the moment.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so same is true for the ...

To my opinion the day the Astoria incubation project was unveiled,  all about querying and pushing data through a webservice changed for good. I was pretty amazed to see that the REST paradigm was so easily embraced in the .NET world. Now some time later, this is an official release and it is called ADO.NET Data Services. For all of you that are not familiar with ADO.NET Data Services you can find more information here.

To put it shortly: <quote>“The goal of the ADO.Net Data Services framework is to facilitate the creation of flexible data services that are naturally ...

Well as I figured it out it was not a complicated thing, but there are some specifics of course:

Installing IIS

By default IIS7 is included in the distribution (I use the Enterprise edition of Windows Vista), but is not installed by default. To do so open ControlPanel > Programs and Features.

On the right side of the window click the "Turn Windows features on or off" link and a dialog will open:

Installing required features

You can select and check the Internet Information Services feature. By default not everything required gets selected. You have to check also the ...

Now I know that most of you are familiar with this “as old as the world” problem, so to ease the uprising tension I will not go into the theoretical and architectural kind of stuff. Rather I want to remind to all of us why the (O)bject (R)elational mapping software domain exists nowadays.

In general there are few major obstacles to overcome when designing an efficient N-Tier application. The persistence storage of a modern application is usually a RDBMS. These kinds of systems store information in a highly efficient way and allow fast retrieval, information queries and scalability, and ...

Before even asking why one should do anything like this, let me clarify that this is a good technique to spice up a bit your VB6 application. Now I know this is not cutting edge but still it is important to a lot of people (as I found out already).

So let’s start then...

Create a new solution that includes a Windows Forms application (to test easily the functionality provided by the user control). Then add a library project that will wrap our user control.

What is demonstrated by this example is a very simple example that includes a label, ...

It is no urban legend that having more monitors results in greater productivity, and most of all tremendous increase in developer’s comfort. Even the Myth Busters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters) dudes know that.

So imagine that your group’s budget allows installing a brand new (say 22 inches) TFT display as your second, or even better you already have the setup.

What are your options with VS 2005/2008 for efficient management of the screen estate to bust productivity?

Better code access

You can vertically split the Visual Studio screen estate in two, and position the divider down the center of the two monitors. This ...

I bet you never thought about this feature! Me either…

It’s good that there is a marvelous blog about all goodies in VS maintained by a nice lady.

I will be monitoring and making comments on the topics there that have excited me most.

So what is on today’s menu? As you’ve probably figured it out already, I will comment on a fine (but unknown to me) feature of dragging and pasting code artifacts straight to the VS toolbox. At first I was a little bit skeptic, but it really worked out, let me show you how:

1. Mark ...

Well folks that's right - MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is pretty much still alive and kicking. First when I found out that this 15+ years old OS was still popular in the embedded segment (please forgive my ignorance as embedded systems are not my core competency) I couldn't believe my eyes. According to John Coyne this fact changes starting October 1st, 2008 - from this date on OEM's will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
The comments and the flame that started at ArsTechnica are very interesting though. It looks like the guys ...