Shows

Check out the third of 8 videos by Ken Cox about the development of CRUD application using Silverlight and Visual Basic.NET.

In Episode 3 of my series on creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form, we display the details of the selected item and explore the DataContext property. I spend some time on the interesting and flexible ObservableCollection objects and configure automatic UI updating by implementing INotifyPropertyChanged.

Note: The previous episodes are prerequisites: Episode 1, Episode 2

The full source code is available for download from here.

Please, give your valuable feedback about the video by leaving a comment. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for episode 4!

Check out the second of 8 videos by Ken Cox about the development of CRUD application using Silverlight and Visual Basic.NET.

This episode covers adding a service reference, putting a ListBox on the page, fetching data with asynchronous calls, and displaying the Northwind companies.

Note: The first episode is a prerequisite: Episode 1

The full source code is available for download from here.

Please, give your valuable feedback about the video by leaving a comment. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for episode 3!

Check out the first of 8 videos by Ken Cox about the development of CRUD application using Silverlight and Visual Basic.NET.

The tasks shown include: Creating the Silverlight project, adding the database, setting up the ADO.NET Entity data model, and implementing an ADO.NET data service.

The demo is a small, but realistic example of how to create a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application against the familiar Northwind database. It uses the latest stuff from Microsoft including Windows Communication Foundation, ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria), and the Entity Framework.

The full source code is available for download from here.

Face it! The out of the box user interface for your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites and your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites is BORING! In this session we’ll look at spicing up your life a bit with many ways to make your SharePoint sites “Web 2.0”. This session includes:

1. New AJAX support provided with Service Pack 1. Learn how to AJAX enable your web.config files. Learn to AJAX enable your web parts and to call web services using AJAX. Integrate controls from the AJAX Control ToolKit.

2. A look at the SharePoint controls provided by third party Telerik.

3. Silverlight integration into SharePoint And then watch your SharePoint sites come to life!