Lately I’ve been trying to blend three different technologies, namingly Sharepoint 2010, SSRS and Silverlight 4 into one application. The goal of the project was to display existing reports of SSRS plus some features of Sharepoint in a Silverlight application that runs inside Sharepoint or as an out of browser application. You may say that SSRS and Sharepoint already work together, so why add Silverlight to the equation? The thing is that customer was so happy with previous Silverlight applications we demoed, that they don’t like to working with old, flat html websites anymore and need a richer application to work with. Continue reading
When creating Line of Business (LoB) applications with Silverlight, the only choice to get the data to the application is through webservices. People having their Silverlight application hosted on the same webserver as the service have almost no problem, but things get interesting when service is not hosted on the same machine as the application, and it gets hairy when you self-host a WCF service. Let’s see how it is done in each scenario. Continue reading
Back in May 2008, I found a way to use Linq expression to fire notification change, and just after that on September 2008, changing the first implementation to benefit extension methods, things looked a lot easier and more C# 3.0 style. But now to think of it, the best implementation of INotifyPropertyChange would be not to implement it at all! Is this possible? Continue reading
In previous parts of this post, we figured out how to create a new webserivce implemented in JAX-WS using java language, and the create a RIA application using Silverlight to use this service. Let’s continue and see some real-world scenarios. Continue reading
In previous post, we saw how easy it is to use J2EE as a rich backend. Let’s continue with our example and show how to fetch and send some data from our J2EE backend to a Silverlight rich client application. Let’s continue our work using a simple Blog domain model. Continue reading
When working on a Silverlight application that received data from a WebService I notice that loading of an array of 1500 items takes a lot of time. With this problem, application launch that has 3 separate webservice lookups, took almost 5 minutes to complete. Continue reading
If you have not heard, Silverlight is the latest rich client technology from Microsoft. The good thing about it is that it works almost on all browsers and operating systems and you can host your application on non-Microsoft stack too, but there are things such as database connectivity that you can’t benefit from when creating Silverlight applications. Continue reading
I started checking out the new Silverlight 4 Beta this week and the most important feature (for me) added to this release : FlowDirection. If you’re not a WPF guy, this is the equivalent of RightToLeft in WinForm world, just recently added to Silverlight. Continue reading
I’ve been trying to setup Google Analytics Event Tracking in a Silverlight application for a while and despite all the how-tos and articles on the web, I just couldn’t get it running. I kept doing everything proposed, but when the application was run on IE, a javascript error was occurred. Firefox didn’t even bother reporting the JS error. Continue reading
Can you guess what’s wrong with this Xaml code, without running it? Continue reading
