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September 2008 - Posts

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  Using Silverlight 2.0 clientaccesspolicy.xml vs. crossdomain.xml for Web-Service cross-domain access To enable a Silverlight control to access a web service (like a WCF Service) in another domain, the service must explicitly allow cross-domain access. Doing so, a service states that the operations it exposes can safely be invoked by a Silverlight control... Read More... Published: Monday, September 29, 2008, 09:07 AM

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  New Application Architecture Guide (v.2.0) from Microsoft Patterns & Practices!! Cool!, just a few days ago (Thu Sep 25 2008) Microsoft P&P have published a neat 'Application Architecture Guide' (v.2.0). It is great because "it is new", so it covers most of the new Microsoft dev technologies and application/architecture... Read More... Published: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 03:37 PM Tags: Software Architecture, SOA, Patterns, .NET 3.5, S+S

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  Silverlight 2.0 RC now available (Sept. 25th)!! Great news!, yesterday we launched Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate! It is quite probable that the final RTW build will be available shortly! I wanted to mention that because of we are still in BETA phases, it is more than likely that we have to check... Read More... Published: Friday, September 26, 2008, 01:27 AM

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  Our RIA Apps Architecture with Silverlight 2.0 Event! (Madrid Sept. 24th) We're actually today running an event in Madrid about RIA Apps Architecture with Silverlight 2.0. The event content is oriented towards Software Architects. Our main speaker is Josh Holmes (RIA Architect Evangelists, based on U.S.) because he's... Read More... Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 02:19 AM Tags: Software Architecture, RIA, Silverlight

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  Optimistic Concurrency Updates using Entity Framework in N-Tier and N-Layer Applications (Part 2) This is my second post about "Updating data using Entity Framework in N-Tier and N-Layer Applications". If you wanna read the basics, go to my first post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2008/09/04/updating-data-using-entity... Read More... Published: Thursday, September 04, 2008, 04:07 PM Tags: WCF, .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, ADO.NET, Entity-Framework

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  Updating data using Entity Framework in N-Tier and N-Layer Applications (short lived EF contexts) - (Part 1) First of all, we are talking about using Entity Framework and how it fits within N-Tier and N-Layer applications, ok?, that’s our initial scenario. An N-Tier application is an application where you have 3 or more physical tiers . I mean with that things... Read More... Published: Thursday, September 04, 2008, 02:02 AM Tags: WCF, .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, ADO.NET, Entity-Framework