Programming

Data applications When building applications that utilize data, it is important to start with defining what data you are going to collect and how it...

Collecting data Now that we have created a business object and a WCF service here-http://www.packtpub.com/article/creating-wcf-service-business-object-data-submission-silverlight, we are ready to collect data from the customer through...

With Silverlight, data validation has been fully implemented, allowing controls to be bound to data objects and those data objects to handle the validation...

Silverlight sports a rich animation system that is surprisingly easy to use. The animation model in Silverlight is time based, meaning that movements occur...

Creating applications in Expression Blend What we've done so far falls short of some of the things you may have already seen and done in...

Skinning a control So far, you've seen that while styles can change the look of a control, they can only go so far. No matter...

Retrofitting a website The first thing the client would like to do to their website is spice it up with a new navigation control and...

Proxy—A Primer Wikipedia defines Proxy as: Proxy may refer to something which acts on behalf of something else. In the software a proxy is a substitute for...

So what exactly is a service? A service is essentially a well-defined interface to an autonomous chunk of functionality, which usually corresponds to a...

Identifying Standard Message Exchange Patterns When we talk about Message Exchange Patterns, or MEPs, we're considering the direction and timing of data between the client...