Brad AbramsDesign Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET FrameworkUpdated Talk: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008- June 30, 2008 For my Mix Essentials talk in South Africa I updated my Mix08 talk Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to have a little more Africa feel... I used some photos from my safari at Mala Mala here this week.&160; &160; Download the working sample and a set of starter demo files.&160; Hope you enjoy it!http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/30/updated-talk-building-great-ajax-applicatio... ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Customizing the UI- June 27, 2008 In my last post on Dynamic Data, I showed what Dynamic Data adds to the current ASP.NET data story.&160; In this post I show how to customize the UI with Metadata, field templates, and page templates.&160; I start off by showing off the Dynamic Data Wizard. FileNew WebSite Create a new connection, in this case using SqlExpress It may take a minute, but the wizard will load the database metadata.. let's select just a few tables for this demo The next step is customizing the...http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/27/asp-net-dynamic-data-customizing-the-ui.asp... Data focused Silverlight demo- June 26, 2008 Yet still more time on traveling, I thought I'd do a little demo of a data oriented scenario with Silverlight. Here is what we are after: The data for the app is loaded from a Linq model and sent to the Silverlight client via a WCF services. As the user makes changes to the grid, we asynchronously update the Linq model on the service. The app uses local storage to cache the data on the local machine to reduce network calls. Create a new Silverlight application and associated web site. ..http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/26/data-focused-silverlight-demo.aspx WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2- June 24, 2008 One breaking change you may have noticed between Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and Beta 2 is that WatermarkedTextBox is no longer available in the Silverlight SDK (System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll).&160; We decided to remove the control because in a future version of Silverlight, we will be adding a &8220;Watermark&8221; property to TextBox. Given this upcoming change, it does not make sense to have "WatermarkedTextBox" as a separate control, so we decided to remove the control from...http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/24/watermarkedtextbox-for-silverlight-2-beta-2... Using ASP.NET Authentication in a Web Service with Silverlight- June 23, 2008 A reader recently asked me to expand on the ASP.NET Authentication + Silverlight concept I started.. Specifically they wanted to do know how they can have a web service that returns different results depending on who calls the service (and what role they are in).&160; Here is my quick walk through of adding that capability to the Silverlight+ASP.NET AppServices sample. First, let's look at the scenario we are trying to enable.&160; I wanted to add a "Fire Bob" button. Hopefully, no.http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/23/using-asp-net-authentication-in-a-web-servi... ASP.NET DynamicData: An Introductory Demo- June 20, 2008 I had a bit more time on my travels, so I cooked up this brief introduction to Dynamic Data.&160; I tried a different approach this time by showing what Dynamic Data adds to our existing data story.&160; More information on Dynamic Data:&160; http:asp.netdynamicdata To do this demo, install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the Dynamic Data update. I started off with a new, blank Dynamic Data Web Site But rather than going directly into Dynamic Data features, I thought I'd review were we are..http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/20/asp-net-dynamicdata-an-introductory-demo.as... Updated Silverlight FlickR demo for Beta2- June 19, 2008 I had a little time while traveling to South Africa so I thought I'd update my Silverlight FlickR demo to Beta2.&160; &160; Download the full solution read the full writeup &160; (note: in the application, you can click on the image to advance to the next one) &160; Overall, the changes were pretty minor, the most&160; interesting one was a change in the way Isolated Storage is accessed.&160;&160; I set up a page level variable called appsettings: IsolatedStorageSettings...http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/19/updated-silverlight-flickr-demo-for-beta2.a... Silverlight talk at AjaxWorld- June 12, 2008 I am pretty exited to be going to AjaxWorld (Oct 20-22) in San Jose.... I will be at least giving a Silverlight talk and maybe something else fun in the Ajax, MVC, ASP.NET space. I love getting out in the broad industry events because I can hear such diverse perspectives.&160; Anyone else planning to go&160;&160; If so, what would you like to hear abouthttp://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/11/silverlight-talk-at-ajaxworld.aspx .NET Rocks! on ASP.NET Dynamic Data- June 11, 2008 The great folks over in DNR land just posted Scott Hunter's interview on ASP.NET Dynamic Data!&160; In it he talks a lot about not only what is available with VS08 SP1, but also what is coming next.&160;&160; Exciting times! Show 349 6102008 (63 minutes) Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic Data Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime, which provides scaffolding and dynamic data services to developers. Scott Hunter is currently a program manager on the...http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/10/net-rocks-on-asp-net-dynamic-data.aspx Silverlight Roles, Profile and Authentication Example Updated for Silverlight Beta2 Now with Visual State Manager (VSM) goodness!- June 9, 2008 I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently...&160; I took a few minutes to update my recent sample "Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight" post to Beta2.&160; While I was at it, I thought I'd take advantage of the new Visual State Manager (VSM) feature to simplify some of the UI.&160; VSM is a new Beta2 feature of Silverlight (and soon WPF) that makes it much easier to define and transition between UI states in your...http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/06/08/silverlight-roles-profile-and-authenticatio... |