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... [Read More]

Last week, I tweeted about a bug the RIA Services QA team found.  It’s rather obscure and we decided not to fix it.  I thought it was worth mentioning for at least the humor of it. Here’s what you must be using in order to see this issue: Windows XP... [Read More]

UPDATE: The RIA Services team released a December 2010 Toolkit, and that release fixes the build issues encountered below.  But this post still has value as it shows some ways to modify the code generated by our T4 Code Generator.  Be sure to check out Varun Puranik’s Blog for more... [Read More]

BAM! This is an exciting day; today we are releasing WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010.  These download links are also available from http://silverlight.net/riaservices. Side-by-side installation with WCF RIA Services V1.0 is not supported.  If you already have RIA Services installed on your... [Read More]

In our last post, we learned how ValidationContext can be used to provide and consume state and services for validation methods to use.  Now, let’s take a quick look at how validation methods can actually use this information.  I’m going to include a bunch of code in this post, and... [Read More]