I am continuing discussing new features on Silverlight 3.0. Current topic is assembly caching. In Silverlight 2.0 all assemblies that your application needed would have to be included in your XAP file(s). In Silverlight 3 you can force browser to cache one or more assemblies that your application needs. In case of caching your can …
As I mentioned before I talked at GGMUG last Thursday. I talked about Entity Framework in general and specifically in N-Tier applications, such as Silverlight applications. I think I got a few folks excited about using Entity Framework. The key thing to remember when using EF in N-Tier applications is that EF keeps track of …
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As I mentioned before, I will be working on a series of posts on new features in Silverlight 30. This post is all about ElementName binding. Probably my favorite feature in Silverlight 3 that affects developers writing business applications is addition of ElementName property to Binding object. This features existed in WPF since version 1, …
I will be presenting at the next Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group this coming Thursday. The topic of my presentation will be Entity Framework in general and its applications to Silverlight development. I will be posting the zip file with slides and sample application immediately after the presentation. I hope to see you there!