Brad Abrams

More updates on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the original  video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files… In the original demo I showed getting your data from a database directly from the web tier.  Many enterprise customers have found that it their systems are more maintainable and secure if they isolate the database access behind a set of web services possibly in a DMZ.  This means that no apps talk directly to the database.   Yet there is often a need to add application specific validation and application logic as well as data shaping and aggregation in the web-tier.   To show this, I have refactored the example application from the first part of thi... (more)

Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight

In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in ASP.NET (Membership, Roles and profile).  In 3.5 we created a client library for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web services.    For more information on the base level ASP.NET appservices that this walk through is based on, please see Stefan Schackow's excellent book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management. In this tutorial I will walk you through how to access the WCF application services from a directly from the Silverlight client.  This wor... (more)

Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (April 13th)

A few more great posts on .NET RIA Services over the last week.. Christoph had a great post on Customize code generation in .NET RIA Services Tim shows us how to Share DataContext among navigation pages in Silverlight 3 Risman asks:  .NET RIA Services – Is Good Enough?  Luckily, he finds it is ;-) Maurice looks under the covers to find out about .NET RIA Services and data communication Guy Burstein has a great set of blogs ASP.Net QueryExtender Control and DomainDataSource ASP.Net DomainDataSource with Select Parameters Using DomainDataSource in ASP.Net Build a Simple Applicatio... (more)

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM

With Silverlight 3 shipping and a brand new update to .NET RIA Services I thought I would update the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the original  video of the full session  The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview  (optional for this part of the demo) Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application. Today, we will talk about Professional Feel..  Professional Feel Business applications need ... (more)

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services Update

More update on my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3”. You can watch the original  video of the full session The demo requires (all 100% free and always free): VS2008 SP1 (Which includes Sql Express 2008) Silverlight 3 RTM .NET RIA Services July '09 Preview Also, download the full demo files and check out the running application. Today, we will talk about Authentication Business applications often access very important data.  It is important that you can audit, restrict and control access to your data.  Let’s look at how to use .NET RIA Services and SL3 ... (more)