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YOUR Silverlight World – Use WCF to Easily Move Data
and
More Best Practices
with
Doug Gregory,
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If you are like most of us application
developers, you have had little need to use the .Net Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF) in your applications other
than to consume services written by others. Now,
Silverlight development makes WCF a critical part of YOUR
business applications, especially when YOU interact with back end
databases.
WCF allows you to elegantly and easily move data
around, but only if you know how. Come and find out how from
Doug! He has experience in this specific area and will
present several best practices for you to use WCF services
in your Silverlight applications. These include ways to
organize your services for reusability and testability, how
to write your service clients that work effectively with the
Silverlight asynchronous model, and techniques you can use
to avoid some of the common pitfalls when developing your
own WCF Services.
You'll leave understanding how to use WCF in YOUR
Silverlight World. Prior experience in these technologies is
not required – Doug will quickly bring you up to speed;
however, if you are already challenged by these areas, you
will gain a deeper understanding to make your life easier!
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Updated 04/19/2010 |
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Notes from
Feature Presentation |
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Contributors: Martin
Buchanan
and Chris Wallace.
1. The key limitation of
Silverlight is that many parts of the .NET framework are excluded,
either to keep the downloads small or for security reasons. This is
basically appropriate for the platform.
2. Siverlight does not support the System.Data namespace or direct
access to databases.
3. To overcome the limitation in number 2, use Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to build
data and business logic services consumed by Silverlight.
4. In WCF you specify service, address, binding, and contract. WCF
allows multiple bindings for the same service.
5. .NET 4.0 improves and simplifies WCF web.config settings.
6. Data annotations were shown (System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations),
which can be used with the Validator class in the framework and with
the DataForm. The UI in Silverlight and the services in WCF can now
share validation logic -- a big improvement.
7. WCF has great trace logging, which is server side. On the client
side, Silverlight cannot write files (no workaround noted).
Download
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Doug
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Doug
Gregory is the Senior Technology Leader for The Spitfire
Group and is responsible for establishing design principles
and ensuring quality technical delivery of client
engagements. He has over twenty five years of experience in
the software industry, and offers a unique combination of
business knowledge and a deep understanding of software
toolsets, concepts and integration methods. |
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Doug
has been working with the Microsoft .Net Framework for
almost ten years, specializing in SOA and custom frameworks.
Doug is a former President of the Northern Colorado Dot
Net User Group and frequently speaks there and at other
Front Range user groups. |
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Feature Presentation
YOUR Silverlight World – Use WCF to Easily
Move Data & More Best Practices
with
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