MIX09: Silverlight, Ready for Business
After seeing the presenter’s attire the morning of his presentation, I had to watch this session. It’s too bad that they don’t show a picture of Ward.
Presenter: Ward Bell, VP Technology, IdeaBlade, Inc.
Presentation page: https://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T69M, 26 minutes
- Introduction
- Silverlight is about glitz, but also about business
- The Data Story
- Silverlight Data Access Today
- can’t go directly to database
- WCF services
- ADO.NET Data Services
- DevForce (product from IdeaBlade)
- It’s real, It’s now
- Creating an application
- Create solution
- Build model
- Write queries
- Show it
- Architecture
- Server
- database
- Entity Framework
- DevForce Server
- Client
- DevForce Entity Manager
- UI/Presentation
- Server
- UI
- Using MVVM
- Model
- Business logic persistent state
- View
- Visuals
- View Model
- View state & responses
- Persistence Service
- Entity Manager
- Demo
- DevForce tutorial
- Solution has 2 projects: web and Silverlight
- Build ADO.NET entity model
- DevForce Object Mapper
- DevForce Pluralizer
- Client-side LINQ
- DevForce offers client-side cache
- Model Explorer
- Summary
- One Model
- Silver-LINQ, Ward’s name for Silverlight programming utilizing LINQ
- Validation
- Offline
- Not a Toy!
- WPF/ Winforms/ASP
- Security
- Scaling
- Transactions
- Testing
- IdeaBlade