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Review of TechEd PreCon: “Microsoft Silverlight Inside and Out” by Jeff Prosise

Review of TechEd PreCon: “Microsoft Silverlight Inside and Out” by Jeff Prosise

I attended the terrific “PRC03 Microsoft Silverlight Inside and Out” presented by Jeff Prosise.  The session was packed with a good background on Silverlight development and a bunch of great tips, tricks and samples.  Some of my favorites were: Dynamic XAP Loading: you can break apart your xap file into pieces to allow for faster load because you aren’t loading all of your assemblise on initial load of your silverlight app.  You have the ability to do the initial load…

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SPFLogger–A whole new way to look at SharePoint 2010 Logs

SPFLogger–A whole new way to look at SharePoint 2010 Logs

One of the most amazing, and little talked about, features of SharePoint 2010 is its new logging database and the power that comes along with it.  About 4 months ago I noticed a gap in the market and started talking to 2 friends of mine, David Feldman and Cornelius J. van Dyk, making the statement “I think that this would make for a really neat winforms app.”  After some brain storming we decided to take the idea a different direction…

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Silverlight with RIA Services GroupBy in a DataGrid

Silverlight with RIA Services GroupBy in a DataGrid

There are lots of examples for Silverlight 3 and before when System.ComponentModel was directly accessible, however in Silverlight 4 with RIA Services none of those patterns work.  We looked at the sample videos, some great blogs by Tim Heuer and others, and even looked at the most recent Silverlight Toolkit but had no luck. After an hour or searching for the proper way to do grouping in a DataGrid in Silverlight 4 with RIA Services we found that it is…

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