Dew Drop – June 22, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

 

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Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

SharePoint

 

Database

 

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Dew Drop – April 20, 2009

 

Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

 

Silverlight / WPF

 

Web Development

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

 

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Database

 

Miscellaneous

 

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Morning Dew Quick Review – ‘Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2’ by John Papa

 

If you are looking to build a business-focused application with Silverlight, chances are you are going to need to access data of some sort. This is the best book I have found to address this aspect of Silverlight development.

Virtually every method of data access currently available in Silverlight is covered here: LINQ, REST, WCF and more.

I read the book cover-to-cover, but I think it will serve best as a reference guide while developing line-of-business apps with Silverlight. Most of what you see written about Silverlight focuses on shiny UIs. This book gives you what you really need to build RIAs for real business requirements.

Definitely recommended.

 

 

 

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