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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development Blog / Screencast Series Index

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:16:00 +0000

I am in the midst of putting together a blog / screencast series illustrating developing Silverlight 3 application, taking advantage of various design patterns. Some of the patterns we will cover are the Repository, the Pipeline, the Service Agent and Model View ViewModel. I will be building a Sample HelpDesk Application along the way (see below).

Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part III – Pipeline Pattern

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:48:51 +0000

In yesterday’s post, I build our Repository interface and the implementation, as well as added some server-side validation, following a simple pattern. I also added a test project and wrote some tests to test the our validation logic. In this post I will implement the Pipeline pattern. I will then implement a fake repository and use it to test our Pipeline.

Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part II – Repository and Validation

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:59:54 +0000

Introduction In this post I will provide a brief overview of the Repository pattern, implement a Repository in our sample application, establish our server-side validation and add our test project. Acknowledgements Most of what you will see in this post follows very closely with the code ScottGu implemented in his NerdDinner tutorial. In fact, I would highly [...]

Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part I – Getting Started

RobBagby — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Introduction During the summer I put together a session on Patterns-Based Silverlight Development that we delivered across the West Region as part of MSDN events. The session was structured around building a Silverlight application from the ground up that illustrated the use of the following design patterns: 1) Repository, 2) Pipeline, 3) Service Agent and 4) [...]

Azure Application Part 3: Expose (REST) Web Service And Consume in Silverlight

RobBagby — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:14:00 +0000

This is part 3 in this series where I am building an Azure shopping cart application from the ground up. In this post, I will create a RESTful service using WCF and host it in Windows Azure. This service will source it’s data from Azure Table Storage. I will then illustrate how to consume this service from a Silverlight component hosted in Windows Azure. Giddyup.

(In part 2 I illustrated how to set up and access Azure Table Storage in both the development environment, as well as in the cloud. I created a Wine table, added a few entities and retrieved them both locally and from the cloud. I did all this taking advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services .NET Client Library and the StorageClient sample application.)