• Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post.

    The page state issue

    One of the great things about MEF is that it allows you to maintain state across pages. So basically, when a user spends some time on a page and makes some changes, then...

  • Events in Task-It - Part 3

    Thursday, May 13, 2010 by XAML Team | Go comment!

    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post.

    Prior topics

    In my last 2 event-related posts I talked about passing information between components via events and using events in providing feedback to a user when time consuming operations are in progress. I also blogged recently...

  • Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post.

    Leading up to displaying an error

    As I was preparing to write Part 3 of my mini-blog post series about Events in Task-It I realized that should give a little background...

  • I have posted a new video about using the RadTransitionControl to create nice transitions between UI elements, UserControls and Pages in my Task-It Silverlight 4 application.

    You can view the video...

  • Task-It is a sample app (for task managment) that I've developed in Silverlight 4 using Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight. 

    As the video and blog post series related to this application continues to grow, it's about time to post an index to the resources.

    Keep an eye out for new posts, and follow me on Twitter (@rwozniak) if you'd like to be notified when new videos and posts are added!

     

    Videos

    Intro to Task-It Teaser Video

    Task-It Webinar - Building a real-world application with Rad Controls for Silverlight 4

    Populating the RadGridView with WCF RIA Service data

    Using RowDetails in RadGridView

    Using the RadTransitionControl in Task-It

    Populating the...

  • Events in Task-It - Part 2

    Thursday, April 29, 2010 by XAML Team | Go comment!

    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post.

    Providing feedback to the user

    In my last post I talked about using events to pass information from the RadTreeView to the RadGridView in the Tasks page in Task-It. In this post I'll talk about events that are...

  • Events in Task-It - Part 1

    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by XAML Team | Comment 1

    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post.

    Communicating between components

    In any Silverlight application there are going to be times when you want to communicate between different components in your app. These could be UserControls, view model classes, whatever. To do this you need a framework for...

  • Task-It Source Code

    Monday, April 26, 2010 by XAML Team | Comments 32

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    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here.

    Finally...the code

    I've received many questions about when the source code for the Task-It application will be released. Well, the time has finally come.

    I haven't been able to release this sooner due to the flurry of releases that have been coming out lately. Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Services, and even our Q1 Rad Controls. Each time I got the latest bits I ran...

  • Commands in Task-It - Part 2

    Monday, April 19, 2010 by XAML Team | Comments 18

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    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application.

    Taking it to the next level

    In my last post, Commands in Task-It - Part 1, we looked at a very simple solution that demonstrated how a single command instance (SaveCommand) could be bound to two UI controls, a Button and a RadTreeViewItem. In this example...

  • Commands in Task-It - Part 1

    Monday, April 12, 2010 by XAML Team | Comments 7

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    Task-It Series

    This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application.

    Intro to Commands

    In recent blog posts, like my MVVM post, I used Commands to invoke actions, like Saving a record. In this rather simplistic sample I will talk about the basics of Commands, and in my next post will go deeper into the subject.

    What is...