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• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1.5 of 2) More on Service Call Chaining

  In my previous post , I discussed how to chain service calls. One question I received on that was how to do the opposite: take an action after all the calls (or by extension, some logical groups of calls) have completed. This is one of the challenges... Posted Jun 27 2008, 11:05 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture, Async, Patterns

• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) - Async Service Call Chaining

  The Publish and Subscribe pattern (which uses the Observer Pattern in .NET - more info here ) is one of those patterns we use all the time while thinking nothing of it. In .NET, we get the concrete implementation via events and delegates. By abstracting... Posted Jun 26 2008, 09:41 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Architecture

• Silverlight Charts and Graphs - with Source Code

  If you are looking for some great Silverlight 2 charts and graphs for data presentation (not interactivity at this point), check out what the people at VISIfire have come up with . Besides being a great example of what one can do with vector drawing,... Posted Mar 31 2008, 05:46 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• State Management and Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

  Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common... Posted Mar 22 2008, 12:07 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• Links from Today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast

  I'll post a link to the recording once I have that. In the mean time, here are some of the links mentioned in today's Silverlight 2 for Business Applications webcast: Silverlight 2 Woodgrove Bank Sample Application Source Code for same (also includes... Posted Mar 19 2008, 02:02 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, RIA, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

• Using Silverlight Isolated Storage for Local State Backup

  A recurring problem that both Silverlight and Flash developers have to deal with is the volatility of the browser. One place where this can really hurt you is if, for example, you want to pop up a donation page or other straight browser content at the... Posted Feb 26 2008, 10:55 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications

• Upcoming Silverlight 2 Talks and Webcasts

  I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows... Posted Feb 22 2008, 07:25 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, MIX08, Business Applications, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, Microsoft DPE

• Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax - Which One is for Me?

  Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:43 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, .NET, RIA, Business Applications, User Experience (UX), Silverlight Business Applications, Architecture