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The examples in this blog post uses the Silverlight Business Application template shipped with WCF RIA Services. The Navigation feature in Silverlight uses by default the name of a View to show, so I decided to use the same in the web.sitemap file. The Business Application by default will have two hardcoded hyperlinks at the top of the screen, the Home and About. I decided to reuse the same Views and names.

Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe and posted the slides+demo files from them.  High-quality videos of the talks I did in Sweden were posted two weeks ago on the Channel9 site, so you can also now watch videos of the talks online as well.  The videos use a nice format where you can watch me talking as well as the screen at the same time.  The code is readable when running in full-screen mode.

ScottGu posted some materials from his four recent presentations in Europe. Videos from some of his talks will come soon.

This past week I’ve been traveling around Europe giving a bunch of presentations (approximately 5 hours in each country) – Norway on Tuesday, Sweden on Wednesday, Denmark on Thursday, and Belgium on Friday.  I’ll then be presenting at the BizSpark Camp in France this coming Tuesday.

Things went well with the talks, and I had fun meeting lots of new people (more than 3,000 attended the talks!)

There is when the user will find the problem about mixing up server side controls and Silverlight, the server side controls will cause postbacks that will refresh the Silverlight control. To avoid that problem, the developer may want to use MS ASP.NET AJAX to avoid the server side controls from doing a postback using the UpdatePanel. For this to work there is a simple modification that you need to do at the page where you are hosting the Silverlight control.

Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I’d like to get something up and running quickly.  I’d also like to share all by business logic and validation code between the Silverlight client and the WebAdmin site.

Here are the previous parts of Brad's series:

• Part 1: Navigation Basics
• Part 2: Rich Data Query
• Part 3: Authentication
• Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser
• Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms
• Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
• Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
• Part 8: WCF Based Data Source
• Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider
• Part 10: LinqToSql
• Part 11: The Client-Only World
• Part 12: DataSet
• Part 13: The New Class Library Project
• Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support
• Part 15: ASP.NET MVC
• Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service
• Part 17: Evolving an Application
• Part 18: Custom Linq Provider

Ian T. Lackey is talking about MVC to Silverlight page mapping and the SEO of Silverlight apps and is looking for input.

I have heard rumor that some of the spiders will start reading content from Silverlight apps; however, I personally do not want to wait for that to happen. Frankly, at this point I have not confirmed that it will happen by any credible source. So, I decided to see how difficult it would be to build a solution to this issue. What follows is my first attempt, and can (and probably will) be drastically improved from where it is today. This post, strays a bit from the typical format. I am documenting what I have done as opposed to showing a solution. In following posts I plan on cleaning this up and providing a step by step tutorial on how to do this.

If you build ASP.NET applications then you’re used to working with controls a lot.  Nearly everything you do requires accessing control IDs.  If you need to retrieve data entered by an end user you need to reference the controls that contain the data.  That’s just the way we do it in ASP.NET and if you’ve been writing ASP.NET applications very long its how you’re conditioned to think.