Rants Tagged with “Silverlight 2”

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Installing Silverlight 2: Hints

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There are a couple of caveats to note when you are installing the new Silverlight 2 bits:

  • When installing the Silverlight 2 Tools, install the new version of Blend 2.5 first as if you install in the other order, it occassionally causes bad build steps to be setup in Visual Studio and Blend. 
  • Make sure that you've uninstalled the Silverlight 1.1 Tools and SDK.
  • Make sure you backup any Silverlight 1.1 projects before installing hte Silverlight 2 tools as you won't be able to build them again afterwards.

Hope this helps!

Silverlight 2 Available

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For those who are ready to start playing with Silverlight 2, its now available for download.  You can get the following pieces that are all important for Silverlight:

  • Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 (including the SDK, VS Project support and help docs).
  • Expression Blend 2.5 Preview (with support for new Silverlight 2 features).
  • Silverlight 2 SDK (This inlcudes samples and documentation, but no tools.  This is included in the Beta 1 Tools so you don't need it if you are going to install the tools for VS 2008)

Enjoy!

Come Hear Me at the Alabama Code Camp this Saturday

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I will be at the Alabama Code Camp this weekend to talk about Silverlight, the Entity Framework and Astoria.  The talks I am doing are:

Feel free to stop by and harrass me with questions or disagreements.  I'll be there all day.

Hear Me Discuss Astoria on Hanselminutes

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I got to spend some time with Scott Hanselman on his Podcast (Hanselminutes) discussing Astoria and how it *not* just exposing your database to the Internet.We delved into REST and how Astoria and Silverlight are a good mix for the right application. 

Check it out when you have a chance.

Astoria Silverlight Extensions Released!

ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight Extensions now released.  This library is used in Silverlight 2.0 projects to access Astoria without all the headaches of serialization.  Check it out!

I will be updating my http://silverlightdata.com site soon with a new build including these bits.

Silverlight Data Example now using Astoria's Silverlight Client API

I've updated my Silverlight 1.1/Entity Framework/Astoria mashup to use the Astoria Silverlight Client API instead of raw JSON serialization.  The code contains both methods (but they are switched out with a project-level #define). If you're interested in seeing how this works in practice, go grab the code.  Here's a direct code link:

http://silverlightdata.com/mashup.zip

 

SilverlightData.com Source Now Available

For those who do not know what the SilverlightData.com site is about...its an example of Silverlight 1.1 working with Entity Framework and Astoria.  When I released SilverlightData.com last month, I had expected to allow users to download the source code so they can get a taste of what Silverlight 1.1 and Astoria together would look like.  Unfortunately because of a bug on my part, the source link did not work. I've addressed that and you can now download the source code. 

Here's a direct link to the source code: