Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
My Last Day at Microsoft
Wow – I can’t believe it has already been 13 years at Microsoft. I have had a great time here...
Date: 04/20/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Ajax Endpoint
Continuing in our series, I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed your service...
Date: 04/12/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing WCF (SOAPWSDL) Services
Continuing in our series, I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL...
Date: 03/29/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization
To continue our series, In real business applications our data is often very valuable and as...
Date: 03/26/2010
Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG)
I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in Israel.. we had a full house last...
Date: 03/24/2010
Program Manager (PM) Tip Index
I thought it would be worthwhile to produce an index for the (very) occasional series I have on...
Date: 03/23/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Validating Data
To continue our series let’s look at data validation our business applications. Updating data...
Date: 03/23/2010
A Great Time at Developer Academy 4 In Israel
I had a great time today at Developer Academy 4. It was in a beautiful part of Tel Aviv. The weather...
Date: 03/22/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application
To continue our series, let’s look at localizing our business applications. In today’s global...
Date: 03/22/2010
Mix2010: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight
I had a great time today in my Mix2010 session on SEO for Silverlight. Update: You can...
Date: 03/17/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
To continue our series, let’s look at SEO and Silverlight. The vast majority of web traffic is...
Date: 03/17/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client
To continue our series, let’s look at updating the data. I have created a Plates.xaml page...
Date: 03/16/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services
OData is an emerging set of extensions for the ATOM protocol that makes it easier to share data over...
Date: 03/16/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Consuming Data in the Silverlight Client
To continue our series, let’s see where the fun comes in my look at how easy that is to consume from...
Date: 03/15/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Exposing Data from Entity Framework
To continue our series I wanted to look next at how to expose your data from the server side of your...
Date: 03/15/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template
To kick off our series, I wanted to focus on our goal of helping you focus on your business, not...
Date: 03/15/2010
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index
With Silverlight 4 and RIA Services all-but done, I thought it would be worthwhile to highlight some...
Date: 03/15/2010
Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW
At Mix10 this morning in Vegas ScottGu announced that Silverlight 4 and RIA Services RC are...
Date: 03/15/2010
Tell me about your services…
My team has been doing a little thinking recently about the “services” space. Basically I have...
Date: 02/09/2010
Great RIA Services Overview in Dr. Dobbs
Dan Wahlin has a great introductory article on RIA Services in Dr. Dobbs and in Information Weekly....
Date: 01/17/2010
Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)
Some folks have mentioned to me that they are having trouble getting some of my samples to work. And...
Date: 12/11/2009
Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010
Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the...
Date: 12/09/2009
Field Level Access with RIA Services
There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an...
Date: 12/08/2009
PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010 – Now in Visual Basic!!
I had a great time at my talk PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in...
Date: 11/27/2009
Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search
Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t...
Date: 11/25/2009
RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference
I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service. That...
Date: 11/22/2009
PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010
I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009. I was able to spend much of the time in a...
Date: 11/19/2009
Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!
Today at PDC09, Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services. As you may know RIA Services...
Date: 11/18/2009
https://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!
We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the...
Date: 11/07/2009
We Need Your Feedback on the Documentation
The doc teams are looking for your feedback on the .NET Framework and Visual Studio...
Date: 10/30/2009
Lightweight Linq Parser
Jason Allor, dev manager for my team, recently posted about a cool lightweight LINQ parser. ...
Date: 10/28/2009
Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update
Thanks to all of you who asked… I had to take a sick day today, so this was nice mindless work to...
Date: 10/27/2009
Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPFClickOnce plugins
Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft...
Date: 10/21/2009
RIA Services Blog Posts – Now in French!
Thanks to Yannick Aristidi we are getting many of the RIA Services posts from my series translated...
Date: 10/15/2009
PDC 2009 – I can’t wait!
Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC. Just this...
Date: 10/14/2009
Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines
As a nice follow up from my Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design...
Date: 10/11/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 26: Authentication and Personalization
The data we work with in business application is valuable. We need to protect the data.....
Date: 10/05/2009
Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services
ReMix in Lisbon, Portugal was a fabulous was to end my ReMix tour. They keynote (as much as I could...
Date: 10/02/2009
Austria ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services
ReMix in Vienna, Austria was really great. The attendees were very engaged and the venue was...
Date: 10/01/2009
Helsinki ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services
I had a great time at ReMix in Helsinki. I had a chance to give the Silverlight 3 overview...
Date: 09/30/2009
Belgium ReMix and Architect Forum
I had a great time at ReMix and the Architect Forum in Belgium. I had a chance to cover build an...
Date: 09/29/2009
Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines
I had a great time at the the Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group meeting. The turn out was...
Date: 09/28/2009
HanselMinutes Interview on RIA Services
I had a great opportunity to chat with the famous Scott Hanselman recently on .NET RIA...
Date: 09/20/2009
Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages
I got a lot of great feedback on my post Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF...
Date: 09/09/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 25: ViewModel
ViewModel (or Model-View-ViewModel) is an emerging pattern in the WPF, Silverlight space which...
Date: 09/07/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding…
A couple of people mentioned they are having problems getting adding to work in my...
Date: 09/06/2009
Western European ReMix Tour 2009
I was lucky enough to be asked to go on a brief western European ReMix tour. Our goal with...
Date: 09/02/2009
Silverlight 3 Navigation Application: New Themes and Tweaks
Corrina, head UX-designer for Silverlight, just posted some cool new themes for the...
Date: 08/30/2009
Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book
David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and...
Date: 08/27/2009
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures
Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. ...
Date: 08/24/2009