Patterns-Based Silverlight Development Blog / Screencast Series Index

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).

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

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 [...]

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