September 2009 Entries
These days I'm very much in the market for anything will cut down on manual typing. Thus I'm dictating more of what I write (using speech recognition), and today I began to explore CodeRush: a highly extensible Visual Studio plug-in Being very smart marketers, DevExpress offers a free version: CodeRush Express, which is a somewhat stripped down, but fully useful product, and they offer a 30 day trial of the full CodeRush product. The trial, however, allows you to install both the trial of CodeRush...
Turing Project Page: [Novice: 9 | Advanced: 6 ] FAQ | Table of Contents | Definitions What is this and where do I start? [Reposted here while my primary blog is sorted out ] From Database to DataGrid The next step in Project Turing is to create a first iteration of the Silverlight application that will retrieve data from our database. Using our technology of choice: the Data Entity Framework coupled with .Net RIA Services. .Net RIA Services will allow us to create business logic on the server and...
I'm happy to announce that I've launched a new project examining the creation of a business application from design to implementation using Silverlight and such related technologies as Linq, Entity Framework, RIA Services and more. This project is being documented on two levels: Targeted at intermediate Silverlight programmers. Targeted at novice Silverlight programmers to accomplish this, the documentation has next and previous markers for each track, and I've created a Table of Contents for locating...