Richard Wysocki

If you waiting for the Next blog, I'm still researching this wonderful video http://pixel8.infragistics.com/default.aspx#Episode:11927 as well as the Infragistic FaceOut example for MVVM patterns for my silverlight example. I believe I'm close to a working example. The Video is a great Intro and the Faceout example is a great realworld example, but I for a first try I need something in between this. Then most Silverlight examples only do View, no as many do updates so I need to then work on that.

I'm working on a Real life example of MVVM for Silverlight which I'll put up on the web. In the mean time, take a look at this working Demo/video. Watch it at least twice. http://pixel8.infragistics.com/default.aspx#Episode:11927 I think you will like it. This doesn't use Data from a DB so I want to get that locked in with some Forms Authentication as well so you can see it in a real world example (or at least what I would consider real world)

I finally have a few minutes this evening to discuss Silverlight Splash Pages. From creating my few Silverlight pages, I've noticed, you can quickly create a Silverlight .Xap file that becomes big. There are ways around that, which I'm still trying to look at, but lets first assume you can't. As you may know, when you bring up a Silverlight Control, the browser must download a .XAP file. If this .Xap file takes over 500 milliseconds to load, the default Silverlight loading control will show up. This isn't bad, but at times, you might want the screen to do something else. When your doing your Development, I've learned that once this .xap downloads, its just like any other resource. If you want the loading screen to come up again, you will probably need to delete your Internet Files. Here is my example: http://silverlightsplashpage.richardwysocki.com/ This is provided to you as a download on my Website in the Project Library section. If your looking for the Mi...

The First Silverlight Shell application is up and running. You can find a few different Silverlight splash page applications online. Most of them provide a quick bit of text on it but after attempting them, I found, most didn't seem to work perfectly. Either the instructions were bad or the download didn't work. Seeing that, I put mine together. Its not that hard once you see it, but it did take me a few hours because all of the other examples didn't seem right. Take a look if you want. http://richardwysocki.com/ProjectLibrary/Default.aspx Its sure doesn't do much. I had to put this on my hosting providers site to even get it to work because its too fast on my local PC. I uploaded a 2 MB image in the .xap file so it would take a long time to load. Its better than the standard silverlight load image.

Silverlight & WCF Examples are going on. I'll post my example too. I took an existing copy and updated it. My main goal was setup Forms Authentication in the Web Service calls so the access to the data was Protected. More of that to come