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 pattern.  He will then implement a fake repository and use it to test our Pipeline. You can view the code, download the code and read the blog post regarding implementing the pipeline pattern at www.robbagby.com.[more ]

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 Repository pattern and set up server-side validation. You can get access to the code and read the blog post regarding implementing the repository pattern here at www.robbagby.com.[more ]

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 LINQ to SQL model and ensure the generated objects are serializable. You can find all related blog posts and download the code at www.robbagby.com.[more ]

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 illustrates 3 approaches you can take when introducing parallelism to your applications: 1) Fine-grained parallelism, 2) Structured parallelism  and 3) PLINQ.  The approach Rob takes is to start with an a sequential…[more ]

At a recent offsite, we (Developer Evangelists and Architect Evangelists) were asked to present a technical topic that we are passionate about in 5 minutes.  This is not an easy task.  I thought I'd share a screencast of mine (not the actual one, but the content).[more ]

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 coming weeks, portions of .NET Services.  In this screencast (Part 3), Rob will illustrate how to host WCF Services and Silverlight controls.  Specifically, Row will build a RESTful service with WCF and consume that…[more ]

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.   …[more ]

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 coming weeks, portions of .NET Services.  The first few posts will concentrate on Windows Azure, our Cloud Operating System.  I will illustrate things like the developer fabric, hosting various pieces of an…[more ]

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 to take advantage of this data platform.  Please also feel free to read Rob's blog post on this subject.[more ]

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 and executing stored procedures.  You have the ability to map the result to an entity type which gives you some unique abilities.  We will explore some of these abilities in this screencast.[more ]