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1. Introduction

This is the second article of my series about Silverlight web services tricks. At first time I planned to write only about WCF and that is why I called my article series “Deep dive into WCF”, but with my last experience I decided to move away from mainstream and offer some new unusual stuff. That is why I have generalized name of this series to “Deep dive into Silverlight services”.

In this article I’m going to show how you can build a super fast REST web services using ASP.NET MVC and Google Protocol Buffers library.

1. Introduction

As many other Microsoft libraries and frameworks Windows Communication Foundation requires some workarounds to be used in the project, which is designed in test driven development style. The main problem is inability to use Dependency Injection pattern, which is the heart of test driven development. In this article I will show you a set of tricks for both Silverlight and .NET runtimes, which will allow you to use WCF inside TDD project.

Download source code (Requires Silverlight 3 RTM).

1. Introduction

In my previous article about ADO.NET data services I showed you how to get a full control under the proxy generation process using T4 templates. But to tell you the truth, I don’t like code generation in all of its forms. Today I am going to show you how to use ADO.NET data services without code generation at all.

Download source code (Requires Silverlight 3 RTM).

1. Introduction

The use of Deep Zoom Composer for creating deep zoom source files is often inconvenient.

For example, one guy has his online shop with thousands of high quality product images and after the release of Silverlight Deep Zoom technology he decided to use it. Surely he can’t decompose his images using Deep Zoom Composer, because due to the amount of existing site images it would take too much time.

And this is not the only case when you want to dynamically generate multi scale image tile source for high quality images without any other preparations.

1. Introduction

Currently Silverlight supports two ways of duplex communication: sockets and WCF polling duplex services. I was really impressed by the simplicity of using WCF polling duplex in Silverlight 3, but its responsiveness and scalability leaves much to be desired. On the opposite site we have sockets, which are rather tricky to use, but their responsiveness and scalability satisfy real world application requirements.

In this article I’m going to introduce my SocketsLight framework, which should simplify the working with sockets by providing high level API over .NET sockets library.

1. Introduction

This is the first article of my series about deep dive into  ADO.NET Data Services. In this article I'm going to show you how to implement your own ADO.NET Data Services proxy with T4 templates.

Source code and database backup

2. Content

2.1 Problem

ADO.NET Data  Services is a very powerful toy, but as many other cool Microsoft technologies it needs some workarounds to become usable in the real world applications.

Most of the problems are connected with the auto generated proxy which is created after the addition of a service reference.

Note: This article is submitted by Alexey Zakharov for Silverlight: Write and Win contest.Thanks a lot, Alexey! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.

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Introduction

In this article I'd like to tell you how you can easily create your own Virtual Earth viewer based on Silverlight Deep Zoom technology.

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