Saturday Jul 18, 2009 at 01:00 AM | Posted by: stephenj
I came across this error when trying to create a new web cloud service using Visual Studio 2008 after installing the latest Azure SDK "Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined" A solution was available in this MSDN forum thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/38cd8401-311a-4d9f-aac9-7a1a6ed90345 I had to create a "Startup" folder on my mach... [More]
Thursday Jul 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM | Posted by:
With the Essential Studio Vol. 3 release, we will provide a cell-oriented grid control that will form the base of our other Silverlight Grid products. You can check out the product information here. The main features for this preview release are: UI virtualization. Real-time scrolling performance. A read-only grid (we are working on editing support). High-performance ... [More]
Friday Jul 10, 2009 at 09:31 AM | Posted by:
Legacy applications, which are to be migrated to a new platform (WPF, Silverlight, etc.) require leveraging the underlying business layers too. We have an IQueryable interface implemented for DataTable in System.Data.DataSetExtensions. There are a couple of extension providers present in the .NET Framework itself: DataTableExtensions EnumerableRowCollectionExtensions Data Table Extensio... [More]
Thursday Jul 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM | Posted by:
Generating dynamic LINQ expressions needs a bit of understanding on the IQueryable interface. Check out Matt Warren's series of posts on implementing the IQueryable interface –> LINQ Links. The strong drive for this post is that everything is strongly typed; of course we have the Dynamic LINQ library that comes in the MSDN sample, but that comes with the overhead of generating strings t... [More]
Thursday Jul 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM | Posted by:
With the Vol. 3 release, the much awaited grouping and summaries support for the WPF grid will be out. This support works with the CollectionView grouping mode. The summaries are not a part of CollectionView grouping logic, so we included high-level functions that will calculate the summaries of a group dynamically using LINQ methods. This only has the constraint of using IEnumerable<T> im... [More]

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