I came to Microsoft 2 years ago to join project Alexandria, which had the goal of making Silverlight an approachable framework for building business applications.  The domain really excited me and it’s been an honor to work on this product.  In case you’ve been living under a rock, we released... [Read More]

In the hallways of building 42, several of us have talked about how often we need to hard-code member names as strings in code, but we always feel like there should be some language operator to do this.  We’ve specifically said there should be a memberof() in C# the same... [Read More]

As the RIA Services team is wrapping up our V1 release, several team members have been diving into the forums, writing blog posts, and in general trying to connect with the community to make sure we’re tying up all of our loose ends.  We would also like to make sure... [Read More]

As I was writing up a response to the questions on a forums post about using DomainDataSource from a ViewModel, I thought I should just publish the notes here.  I hope this helps people understand what will and will not work from the DomainDataSource when being used outside the visual... [Read More]

This post comes to you from a guest writer, Kyle McClellan.  Kyle works with me on the RIA Services team and he’s contributed to the DomainDataSource feature (among many other features in the framework).  Kyle made the changes that allowed us to remove ControlParameter and use ElementName bindings for FilterDescriptor... [Read More]