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Mix2010: Go Silverlight! 3/15/2010 10:41 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 Earlier today Scott Guthrie opened the Mix2010 conference in Las Vegas with 2 major announcements in the Silverlight sphere: the widely anticipated Silverlight 4 RC, with a promised RTM later on in April and the all new Silverlight for Windows... Read More » Silverlight 4 beta 1 - Ready for LOB Action 11/23/2009 1:02 AM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 Christmas came early this year for all Microsoft techies out there. Not only the releases of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but also the imminent releases of .Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010 product families. Not content with giving us all... Read More » Data binding RIA Entities in Silverlight 3: Tips and tricks: Part 3 6/21/2009 8:04 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 Next I will show you how to bind properties of a DataGrid row to a property of an entity. The commonest situation where you would want to do this is when you want to vary the background color of a row by the value in one of the fields, for example a status... Read More » Data binding RIA Entities in Silverlight 3: Tips and tricks: Part 2 6/15/2009 11:57 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 As promised here’s the way to use RIA entities as ItemSource on DataFormComboBoxFields. The first things we need to keep in mind is that all RIA calls are asynchronous and that once the ItemSource is set, ComboBoxFields do not automatically refresh their itemlists.... Read More » Data binding RIA Entities in Silverlight 3: Tips and tricks: Part 1 5/27/2009 11:27 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 For probably the first time in any UI technology, Microsoft has succeeded in providing an out-of-the-box data binding framework that actually works and you may consider using outside of demo-environments. It works together very easily with RIA Services through... Read More » Silverlight 3: introducing the DataForm control 5/27/2009 10:40 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 Whenever you see demo’s of RIA and Silverlight you come across the new DataForm control. The DataForm control is a completely new type of control in Silverlight 3 that aims to strengthen the of positioning of Silverlight on the line-of-business side of internet... Read More » Practical acceptance testing – Part 5: There’s trouble at t’ mill ! 5/18/2009 9:01 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 The solution we put forward looks pretty complete so far: we’ve gained control over the UI so we could run automated tests and we’ve gained control over the front server so we could arbitrarily mock any of the backend systems. And we can do all of this from... Read More » Using RIA Services with data access in a separate assembly and namespace 5/7/2009 10:06 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 I’m really quite taken with the preview of RIA Services, as I blogged a couple of weeks ago, but that is not to say that I don’t have some issues with it. One problem I’ve had is when I tried to have my data access and RIA web services in separate assemblies.... Read More » Practical acceptance testing – Part 3: Partitioning the system 5/3/2009 11:24 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 Up to now we have looked at the UI only. It’s now time to take a look at the rest of the system. In our particular set up we have a smart client application running over the internet at agent premises, each of them connecting to web services running at the... Read More » Practical acceptance testing – Part 2: Making the UI testable 4/26/2009 10:57 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 The first step on the road to acceptance testing is probably the hardest: getting control over the UI from within a standard TestMethod. It means opening up the UI code to external calls, something you typically don’t want to do, so most UI frameworks are not built with this purpose in mind. ... Read More » Practical acceptance testing – Part 1: Accepting reality 4/19/2009 11:27 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 One of the most difficult things in any large maintenance project is making sure that by fixing bugs or adding functionality you don’t break things in the application in places you didn’t expect. This is especially difficult when extending or replacing core... Read More » Microsoft .Net RIA Services March 2009 Preview 4/13/2009 10:50 PM Euricom Team Blog Hits: 2 To be honest I was somewhat underwhelmed by the content of Techdays’09. A number of speakers talked –again– about RAD, databinding, Entity Framework, etc… Nothing really new here, getting data from a datasource all the way up to any kind of rich client is a pain. All the plumbing, like CRUD operations and validation, is usually completely left up to the developer. ... Read More »