Brad Abrams

RIA Developer's Journal on Ulitzer I had a great time at PDC2009 talk, but I was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB… So here is the next best thing: A full play-by-play of the demo, but all in VB!   Enjoy. What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 ... (more)

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk.   I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done. To get started you need: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Silverlight 4 Beta  (which inclu... (more)

RIA Developer's Journal I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service.  That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService.  I didn’t have time to get into this in my talk, so I thought I’d hit the highlig... (more)

Microsoft Developer I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009.  I was able to spend much of the time in a demo…   Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now in... (more)

Today at PDC09, Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services.  As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps.   I am very excited about this re... (more)

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services.   We hope you enjoy the content we already have up there and help us get more good stuff up there.  http://silverlight.... (more)

  The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio docs.  Help us improve the developer documentation by taking the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey.  This survey will give us a better understanding of the type of applications yo... (more)

Jason Allor, dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser.  The idea was to make it much easier to create a LINQ provider over any arbitrary data source (a web service, custom business objects, etc).  This makes it much easier to get all the sorti... (more)

Thanks to all of you who asked…  I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to get done.   Hope you enjoy it! Part 1: Navigation Basics Part 2: Rich Data Query Part 3: Authentication Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser Part 5: Astoria, Add Service... (more)

  Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post, this action is the result of Mozilla and Microsoft working together to protect customers in relat... (more)

Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated into French!  Partie 1: les bases de la navigation Partie 2: l'accès aux données Partie 3: L’authentification   Thanks Yannick, i hope there are many more to come! Enjoy! ... (more)

Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the PDC.    We just recently announce... (more)

As a nice follow up from my Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines talk, I saw that they just posted the video (slides+audio). Enjoy!   Oh, and i must include the shameless plug…  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patte... (more)

The data we work with in business application is valuable.  We need to protect the data.. sometimes by keeping up with exactly who accesses and updates what data when and other times we need to actively prevent data from being accessed expected by trust parties.    The web is in... (more)

 ReMix in Lisban, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour.  They keynote (as much as I could understand of it) was a lot of fun.  They did the Developer\designer egg shtick, but with a real egg! My this point, I have really hit my stride with the the Silverlight 3 over... (more)

I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an application end-to-end with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services which was basically the this application. At the Architect Forum I had a chance to talk in more depth about the general appl... (more)

ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great.  The attendees were very engaged and the venue was quite nice.  Simon Guest gave the keynote and did a very nice job of bring together SketchFlow, .NET RIA Services and Sql Azure.  I had the opportunity give the Silverlight 3 overview t... (more)

I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki.  I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview today and it was a lot of fun.   I used a this Silverlight 3 deck and did some fun demos: IIS Smooth streaming The Beatles Rockband site  (recently site of the day on FWA site of the day) ... (more)

I had a great time at the the Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group meeting.  The turn out was excellent.  Thanks especially to Gill Cleeren  and Pieter Gheysens for hosting it.  Gill asked me to talk about Framework Design Guidelines – I subject near and dear to my heart.   I dec... (more)

I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA Services.    We drilled a lot into the background for RIA Services and what the high level patterns we are addressing with RIA Services. <(more)