Tag Archives: web service

Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4

In all my previous MVVM in Silverlight 4 posts i was avoiding to address one painful aspect of the Silverlight: calling WCF Web Services. And it was not without reason. Lets face it, consuming WCF Web Services from your Silverlight … Continue reading

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Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services

With the help of Mark Boulter, and Unni Ravindranathan at Microsoft, Michael Washington figured out how to show design-time data in Blend when the data is using web services (without writing a line of code). from Michael Washington     … Continue reading

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Simplifying Asynchronous Calls in Silverlight using Action

This post explores a way to encapsulate web service calls from Silverlight in a way that is easy to use and understand. As anyone who works with Silverlight knows, Silverlight forces web service calls to be asynchronous. There is a … Continue reading

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Silverlight 3′s New Client Networking Stack

from Jeff Prosise’s Blog Silverlight 3′s New Client Networking Stack One of the most useful yet little-known new features of Silverlight 3 is one that has nothing to do with UIs: a brand new networking stack called the client HTTP … Continue reading

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Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3

from Shawn Wildermuth If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’ll probably remember my pithy blog post where I stated that “It all depends…” to the question “Which Data Access Should I Use for Silverlight 3?“  The reality is … Continue reading

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Turn on the Silverlight web service debug mode

written by Al on Tuesday A Silverlight webservice is returning an exception, so what happened to that webservice, if already deployed you have 2 options, configure your machine to run the code on your development computer, where you never see … Continue reading

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Artist Explorer – a Silverlight 2 Mashup

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mash-up applications using their customers’ web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided … Continue reading

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Service Communications with Silverlight | InsideRIA

I get asked a lot about how the different ways there are to communicate from Silverlight applications to other sources through web services. Choosing the right means of communication is important and the best choice often depends on what the … Continue reading

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