Since Silverlight has no concept of "ADO.NET", DataReaders, DataSets or SqlConnections, it needs to work with data "over the wire" via WCF and ASMX webservices, usually in the form of typed Generic Lists or ObservableCollections. This is all XML.
- Peter Bromberg
With Silverlight, most of the "data" you will use you'll get via some sort of networking call - whether it be sockets, HttpWebRequest/Response, WebClient, or a WCF / WebService proxy -- which uses WebRequest under the hood. Here we scrape realtime stock quotes and display them in a scrolling Silverlight "Marquee" display.
- Peter Bromberg
"Folks, this is from the Huffington Post - one of the most radical left-wing web outlets on the planet. Do you really believe everthing you read on the Internet? How about it..."
- Peter Bromberg
"RobN's comment is the only one I've read that shows a reader who is capable of thinking instead of being blinded by mindless hatred."
- Peter Bromberg
For this exercise we put aside our Quotations database work: We'll use the DataContractSerializer to serialize a Generic List of type Note. The serialized List will then be compressed with SharpZipLib, and finally we'll save the compressed byte array in a
- Peter Bromberg
For this exercise we put aside our Quotations database work: We'll use the DataContractSerializer to serialize a Generic List of type Note. The serialized List will then be compressed with SharpZipLib, and finally we'll save the compressed byte array in a
- Peter Bromberg
"has got to be one of the dumbest articles I've read in recent times. Besides describing people making a lousy $100,000 a year as "rich", the article in general actually says little to nothing. Is the Washington Post so hungry for "news" that they must stoop to this?"
- Peter Bromberg
This is the second in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series focuses on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web servi
- Peter Bromberg
This is the second in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series focuses on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web servi
- Peter Bromberg
"This came out of a very poorly designed survey by Evans Data, which was immediately picked up on by C-NET and others who are so hungry to find anything that they can try to make newsworthy that they don't even bother to do any fact-checking. Typical anti-Microsoft FUD."
- Peter Bromberg
This is the first in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series will focus on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web ser
- Peter Bromberg
This is the first in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series will focus on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web ser
- Peter Bromberg
During June, July and August of 2008 EggHeadCafe will be awarding a 1 year MSDN Premium subscription, which includes Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, to the top submitting article author for the month. No strings attached - all you need to do is submit an
- Peter Bromberg