RIA Services Validation: Video Tutorials (in VB)

Not too long ago, a gentleman named Bill Burrows (a VB MVP) contacted me and asked for permission to use content from my blog to create a video tutorial series on RIA Services Validation.  I was really flattered by this and gave him my permission.  I apply a Creative Commons Share-Alike license to the content on my blog, so Bill could have really done this without my explicit permission, but I do appreciate that he asked.  I simply requested that he respect the Share-Alike and Attribution portions of the license.

Today, Bill sent me an update to let me know the video tutorials were published.  I just watched the introduction video and I really like what Bill has set up; it looks like a great scenario for demonstrating many different types of validation.  And as a bonus, he has all of the code from his tutorial packaged up for you to download!

• Bill Burrows’ Website: http://www.MyVBProf.com (Notice the site is created in Silverlight )
• Bill’s Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/Burrows/Default.aspx
• RIA Services Validation Videos page: http://www.myvbprof.com/MainSite/index.aspx#/zRIA_Validation
  • Click the “View Videos” button to start watching the videos
• Download the VB code from the tutorial: http://www.myvbprof.com/code/RIA_Validation_Demo.zip
• Download the videos for offline viewing (100MB): http://www.myvbprof.net/Downloads/RIA_Validation_Videos.zip

Here are the videos that Bill has created:

1. Introduction
2. Creating the Application
3. Standard Validators
4. Custom Validators
5. Generalized Custom Validators
6. Cross-Field Validators
7. Entity-Level Validators

I plan to also publish the C# code from my blog post series.  Before I publish it though, I really want to get a few more posts created to wrap up the series.  Once the series is complete, I’ll get all of the code published to provide a single source for all of the validation scenarios I’ve covered.  Stay tuned!