Of all changes that made it into the RIA Services RC release, one of the ones that I'm happiest about is the deletion of a class called ControlParameter.  Yes, ControlParameter is gone, gone, gone--finally!  If you’re wondering how you’ll get your UI-based filters and parameters to work without ControlParameter, do... [Read More]

With the release of the RIA Services Release Candidate, it was time to refresh the ContosoSales application that was first shown in the PDC keynote.  Let’s take a look at the changes made to move to the new release. The steps below are based on having downloaded the styled ContosoSales... [Read More]

While off reading random blog posts on the tubes, I stumbled upon a post that describes a 101-level scenario of using lookup data in the DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services.  The author was struggling to find a solution for the problem and was clearly frustrated. The scenario is very... [Read More]

Do you have multiple personalities in Visual Studio?  I do.  And so do I.  I like to code with a dark background;I like to send people code snippets using more traditional colors. Awhile back, I wrote about how to quickly change profiles in Visual Studio, but with Visual Studio 2010,... [Read More]

I’m a big fan of using TortoiseMerge from TortoiseSVN for diff/merge operations.  After repaving my machine the other day, I noticed that some command-line tools that I use for our internal processes were ignoring the fact that I’d configured Visual Studio 2010 to use TortoiseMerge.  It turns out that some... [Read More]