A common and key requirement in business applications is the ability for the user to print the information they are using in the business application. FINALLY – Silverlight 4 Beta delivers this capability. This blog will show you how to first of all print in Silverlight 4 Beta and then how to print in a useful way! The code for this blog can be found here and is built with Silverlight 4 Beta and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Steps: 1. Create a Silverlight application project with an ASP.NET web project...
As business applications get built there is usually a need to implement a modal popup to prompt the user for input that is needed before the application can continue. In earlier versions of Silverlight the developer had to roll their own version. In Silverlight 3 the ChildWindow class is used to provide the base functionality needed in a modal popup. This blog will show you how easy the ChildWindow class is to use to implement a simple modal popup function in your application. The finished code for...
When building RIAs there is sometimes both the need for complex rich interfaces and simpler standard html interfaces. This is more common when introducing the rich experience into an existing web application where it makes sense to maintain some of the existing functionality and introduce the power of Silverlight in targeted functions. In such a circumstance when we have business functionality in Silverlight and in ASP.NET/HTML pages - wouldn't it be great if we had the ability to interop between...
Following my FUNdaments presentation tonight to the East Bay .NET user group on the options available to ASP.NET developers for using AJAX type methods for grabbing information/content from a server from the client side browser, the code can be found here and the presentation can be found here. Once again Beth Massi rocked on the main presentation about VB10, C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Lots of goodies to look forward to. That said it cracks me up that MSFT is adding more capabilities to facilitate...
This is the final post in a four part series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight. The steps in this post build upon those completed in part 3. The goal of this series is to show those of you who are relatively new to Silverlight how analogous building such an app in Silverlight is to say building it in ASP.NET, Win Forms or WPF. This app is built on Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight 2.0 and the Silverlight...
This is the third post in a series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight. The steps in this post build upon those completed in part 2. The goal of this series is to show those of you who are relatively new to Silverlight how analogous building such an app in Silverlight is to say building it in ASP.NET, Win Forms or WPF. This app is built on Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight 2.0 and the Silverlight Toolkit using...
This is the second post in a series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight. The steps in this post build upon those completed in part 1. The goal of this series is to show those of you who are relatively new to Silverlight how analogous building such an app in Silverlight is to say building it in ASP.NET, Win Forms or WPF. This app is built on Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight 2.0 and the Silverlight Toolkit...
This is the first post in a series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight. This post is beginners stuff - there’s nothing advanced here. Most readers with some experience of Silverlight will learn nothing from this post, but I want to start at the beginning so those of you who are relatively new to Silverlight can see how analogous building such an app in Silverlight is to say building it in ASP.NET, Win Forms or WPF. This app...
In January and March 2009 I presented to the East Bay .NET and San Francisco Bay .NET user groups respectively on how to build business applications in Silverlight. The theme of the presentations was to show how developing line of business applications in Silverlight is extremely similar to other technologies like Win Forms, WPF or ASP.NET. I demoed how to build a simple CRUD application in Silverlight hitting a SQL Server database over WCF. The building of the application during the presentation...