http://jonshern.com I should know better Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:25:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looks like Silverlight will be available on Windows Mobile 7 Excerpt from http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=13486 The above document confirms both Silverlight and XNA development.  Silverlight is interesting, as we know it will not be present in the browser yet. XNA is however more interesting, as it is the same language used to program the ... http://jonshern.com/2010/02/20/silverlight-and-windows-mobile-7/ If you want to add properties to your App class (App : Application) and actually access them in your application. Make sure to override Current to return an App instead of an Application.                 public static new App Current         {             get             {                 return Application.Current as App;             }         }     http://jonshern.com/2010/02/11/adding-properties-to-the-app-class/ Works with Entity Framework 4.0 CTP 2 My application so far ... The premise of this application is to create a way for one or more people to create a common practice routine, set goals, and compare their progress. I started this application with the intention of ... http://jonshern.com/2009/12/17/finding-a-place-for-wcf-ria-in-existing-applications/ Works with Entity Framework 4 CTP 2 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 {"The object could not be added or attached because its EntityReference has an EntityKey property value that does not match the EntityKey for this object."} I am able to to insert the first record. But subsequent records give the above ... http://jonshern.com/2009/12/09/using-self-tracking-entities-in-entity-framework-4-to-fix-the-error-the-object-could-not-be-added-or-attached/ Works with Silverlight 4.0 beta 1, Visual Studio 2010, and the Silverlight Business Application Template   In WCF Ria you can decorate your service methods with the [RequiresAuthentication] attribute to denote the user must be authenticated. This comes from the System.Web.DomainServices namespace. This same functionality is not available on the client side. One method is to ... http://jonshern.com/2009/12/06/wcf-ria-and-server-and-client-side-authentication/   Getting the Authentication working is a snap, if you remember how to specify the connection string for the SqlMembershipProvider.   I had forgotten. So it was back to Asp.net 2.0 even though I have an Application built with Silverlight 4.0. Since WCF RIA Authentication uses the membership provider, and now the web.config is greatly ... http://jonshern.com/2009/12/02/wcf-ria-authentication-and-sqlmembershipprovider/ Entity Framework 4 adds a bunch of new features this time around. One of which is to push model changes back to the database. If you are using one of the Database projects included in the Database Edition you may wonder how you are going to bridge the gap between the two ... http://jonshern.com/2009/11/25/entity-framework-and-sql-server-database-projects/ The Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft has just released a guide to engineering acceptance tests. Some things that are covered. How to Plan for Acceptance Testing What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests Defining What “Done” Means How to Justify Your Approach It is book both for someone creating ... http://jonshern.com/2009/11/23/acceptance-test-engineering-guidance/ Recently I was at PDC. Several talks used the application Fishbowl as the subject of their demo. It is a showcase of some really nice technologies, but more importantly it is a great way to interact with facebook. Go out and download it, it is free. http://jonshern.com/2009/11/22/fishbowl-facebook-in-a-whole-new-light/ Micheal Shim has some really good information regarding what is in the CTP. http://michaelshim.com/blog/2009/11/19/xaml-toolkit-ctp/ http://jonshern.com/2009/11/21/more-information-on-xaml-toolkit-ctp/