Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. ...
Author: BradA Date: 08/21/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. This time I take up...
Author: BradA Date: 08/11/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data
Wow – the gift that keeps giving.. I am still having fun updating my my simple Mix 09 Business...
Author: BradA Date: 08/10/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate
I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application...
Author: BradA Date: 08/07/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I...
Author: BradA Date: 08/05/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider
Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...
Author: BradA Date: 08/04/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 17: Evolving an Application
More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. So far in this...
Author: BradA Date: 08/03/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary
*** Notice: I will be updating these over the next few weeks for Silverlight 4 beta, RIA Services...
Author: BradA Date: 08/02/2009
Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered!
Recently David Poll posted a very cool technique for navigating to dynamically loaded pages and on...
Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service
I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo....
Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009
LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation – Demo Posted
I had a great time at the LinkedIn Users’ Group meeting… the only down side is that I missed the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC
Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...
Author: BradA Date: 07/30/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 14: Visual Basic (VB) and WPF Support
A few folks commented that they’d like to see something in my series updating my Mix09 talk...
Author: BradA Date: 07/29/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project
Well… this has been one of the longer blog series I have done, but there is so much meat here! Maybe...
Author: BradA Date: 07/28/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet
More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Many customers have...
Author: BradA Date: 07/27/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 11: The Client-Only World
I have had a great time so far with this series.. I hope you have gotten something out of it as...
Author: BradA Date: 07/24/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql
Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been...
Author: BradA Date: 07/23/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider
I have gotten lots of good comments on my series updating my Mix09 talk “building business...
Author: BradA Date: 07/22/2009
Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross
I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does...
Author: BradA Date: 07/22/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
I wanted to continue with the enhancements to my Mix09 talk “building business applications...
Author: BradA Date: 07/21/2009
Simple Example of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight
As you may have heard, we recently shipped MEF support of Silverlight in our CodePlex drop.. I...
Author: BradA Date: 07/20/2009
LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation
On July 30th @ 8pm I will be doing a virtual talk at the Linked .NET User’s Group. I...
Author: BradA Date: 07/19/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source
More updates on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)
I have gotten some great questions on my series so far… A couple of readers noted that it was not...
Author: BradA Date: 07/17/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms
Even more update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. Now for some...
Author: BradA Date: 07/15/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser
More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/14/2009
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!
Today we released MEF Preview 6 on codeplex. Not only is this the feature complete build for...
Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009
Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App
Want a quick reference and simple example of how to use all the cool controls in Silverlight...
Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication
More update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 2: Rich Data Query
Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the brand new update to .NET RIA Services...
Author: BradA Date: 07/11/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics
With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the...
Author: BradA Date: 07/10/2009
.NET Rocks! on Data Access Options
Recently .NET Rocks! talked to Stephen Forte and covered a topic I have been interested in for a a...
Author: BradA Date: 07/10/2009
New MSDN Article on RIA Services Published
I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services. Getting...
Author: BradA Date: 06/30/2009
Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services
Vijay, one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do...
Author: BradA Date: 06/26/2009
PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job
Update: See the full list of PM Tips. Recently a friend of mine at Microsoft asked about tips for...
Author: BradA Date: 06/24/2009
A new generation of programmers begins
I have started teaching my 6-year old son logo as our summer learning project. My goal is to...
Author: BradA Date: 06/09/2009
Release Roadmap for .NET RIA Services
Dinesh Kulkarni recently posted our current thinking on the release roadmap for .NET RIA...
Author: BradA Date: 06/09/2009
Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Keynote at VSLive!
I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas. I did an update of my...
Author: BradA Date: 06/08/2009
Forms AuthWindows Auth – what is more common?
I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of...
Author: BradA Date: 06/05/2009
Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009
A couple of years ago Simone Chiaretta did a survey of .NET Developers usage of Ajax.. I...
Author: BradA Date: 05/27/2009
.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!
While the feedback on .NET RIA Services has been great, many people have commented on the way we...
Author: BradA Date: 05/26/2009
.NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009
Scott Morrison just published his demo files for his talks at Teched.. He did some great work...
Author: BradA Date: 05/18/2009
The DZone interviews Hamilton Verissimo on MEF
The DZone has a nice interview with Hamilton on MEF. Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton...
Author: BradA Date: 05/12/2009
.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview
Today we posted a minor update to .NET RIA Services. This release is mainly focused on addressing...
Author: BradA Date: 05/11/2009
ScottGu Mix Keynote coding demo posted
A ton of folks have asked us about getting the source code to Scott’s cool coding demo. Watch the...
Author: BradA Date: 04/24/2009
Managed Extensibility Framework Preview 5 Released
A few days ago we released MEF Preview 5 on codeplex with all the source code, docs, test and...
Author: BradA Date: 04/14/2009
Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (April 13th)
A few more great posts on .NET RIA Services over the last week.. Christoph had a great post on...
Author: BradA Date: 04/13/2009
Book Review: Outliers
I just finished up Outliers: The Story of Success tonight…. Gladwell is a masterful story...
Author: BradA Date: 04/10/2009
Planning for VS Live in Vegas!
I am very excited to be giving the opening day keynote at VSLive in Vegas.. I plan to...
Author: BradA Date: 04/09/2009
Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 3rd)
A few interesting post on .NET RIA Services… What is .NET RIA Services and why should you care?...
Author: BradA Date: 04/03/2009