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In this multi-part blog series, Rob Bagby will be illustrating the use of various design patterns in Silverlight development.  The patterns covered in the series are Repository, Pipeline, Service Agent and Model View ViewModel (MVVM).  In this screencast, Rob will implement the Pipeline…

In this multi-part blog series, Rob Bagby will be illustrating the use of various design patterns in Silverlight development.  The patterns covered in the series are Repository, Pipeline, Service Agent and Model View ViewModel (MVVM).  In this screencast, Rob will implement the…

In this multi-part blog series, Rob Bagby will be illustrating the use of various design patterns in Silverlight development.  The patterns covered in the series are Repository, Pipeline, Service Agent and Model View ViewModel.  In this screencast, Rob will set up the project, build…

The trend in hardware has shifted from scaling up (faster processors) to scaling out (more processors).  In order for our applications to take advantage of these additional processing power, we need to introduce parallelism into our applications.  In this screencast, Rob Bagby…

This is part 3 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up.  The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End.  The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in…

This is part 2 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up.  The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End.  The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in…

This is part 1 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up.  The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End.  The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in…

Are you interested in Azure?  Have you heard how Azure Table Storage can give you internet scalability and availability?  In this session, Rob Bagby will discuss and illustrate the REST API of Azure Table Storage.  After watching this session, you should have what you need to know…

The Entity Framework supports both select and action stored procedures.  We covered action stored procedures in a previous screencast.  In this screencast, Rob Bagby will illustrate how to import select stored procedures.  However, the entity framework goes beyond simply importing…

For years, you have heard about the benefits of using Stored Procedures to access your database.  In this screencast, Rob Bagby will illustrate the default behavior of the Entity Framework when dealing with actions such as insert, update and delete.  Rob will then discuss some concerns…