Up until now, the WCF RIA Services team has always published 2 installers with each release: The actual “Product” bits – What gets installed as WCF RIA Services (with a specific version number) The additional “Toolkit” bits – What gets installed as WCF RIA Services Toolkit The Product installer is...
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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...
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DomainDataSource Enum Filters
In early pre-release versions of RIA Services, the DomainDataSource control did not support filter descriptors for Enum properties. We were able to get this fixed for our V1.0 RC release though, and I mentioned that back in March. I said in that post that I’d follow up with details about...
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RIA Services SP1 Installation Note
With our WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta release, we have a known installation issue that we wanted to call out. In actuality, the issue is not with our SP1 installer, but with our V1.0 RTM installer, but it doesn't surface until you've installed SP1. To get right to the...
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Is Silverlight's DataAnnotations a Subset of .NET's?
I was one of the developers that ported the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly to Silverlight. Every once in awhile, someone asks me if the Silverlight version of the assembly is a subset of what is in .NET. The answer is Yes, but there are some caveats, and I’m honestly tired of regurgitating...
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