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For those attending the DevEast Code Camp today, and anyone else who’s interested, the slide deck for my “Practical Silverlight” talk is available here, and you can grab the RatingControl source code from here.
Much of the supporting code is based on these articles:
“LINQ + WCF + Silverlight“
“Frictionless data persistence in Silverlight 2″
“From ASP.NET to Silverlight in Five Leaps”
“Devcasting: Silverlight LoB Applications”
Enjoy!
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Earlier this year I posted a port of the CSS minifier from YUI Compressor, Yahoo’s java-based library that reduces CSS and JavaScript resources with a measurable advantage over other similar tools. I made plans to port the JavaScript compressor as well, which is known for its ability to rename inner function variables, but could not find the time, as the task would involve porting the entire JavaScript parser used to decompile the JavaScript and perform the refactoring.
Thanks to Justin Adler, the entire YUI Compressor is now available as an open source, native C# project! Justin has leveraged the ECMAScript.NET project to…
The series of articles on building LINQ + WCF + Silverlight applications, based on an AdventureWorks data model, is complete. You can find each article listed below. The complete solution is available for download below. Just make sure to define the location of your database if you’re running on a server, or the complete path to where you’ve placed the example solution in web.config if you’re using the attached file.
LINQ to SQL Data Layer
Part One: Creating a Reusable LINQ to SQL Data Layer
Part Two: Implementing a LINQ to SQL Repository Pattern
Part Three: Units of Work and Data Sources
WCF Services…
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