Kyle McClellan
Making Software Easier
Unit Testing a WCF RIA DomainService: Part 2, The Repository Pattern
This is part two in a series I’m writing about how to unit test your DomainServices. In part one, I...
Date: 08/18/2011
Unit Testing a WCF RIA DomainService: Part 1, The IDomainServiceFactory
I’ve always been a proponent of driving product quality through unit testing. Regardless of the...
Date: 08/18/2011
WCF RIA Services in Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP
If you’ve been using RIA in the cloud or are considering it, it is definitely worth your time to...
Date: 06/24/2011
Writing a Custom CollectionViewLoader for the DomainCollectionView and MVVM
The question I’ve been fielding most lately is how to write a custom CollectionViewLoader. Once you...
Date: 05/13/2011
Survey: How Do You Use the DomainService Wizard?
I need to ask a favor of all my regular readers out there (crickets). I often hear stories along...
Date: 05/05/2011
MVVM Pattern for RIA Services
At the Silverlight Firestarter ‘10, John Papa did a great talk on MVVM Patterns for Silverlight and...
Date: 04/29/2011
DomainCollectionView Updates for Mix ‘11
To correspond to the new RIA Services build we’ve released at Mix, I’ve made some updates to the...
Date: 04/15/2011
Using RIA Services with ComboBoxes and Enums
The other day someone asked me how to get a ComboBox working with enums and validation. It turned...
Date: 01/06/2011
Collection Binding Options in WCF RIA Services SP1
One of the most common tasks when developing a RIA Services application binding to a collection of...
Date: 12/02/2010
Introducing An MVVM-Friendly DomainDataSource: The DomainCollectionView
[This sample references out-of-date API. This newer post discusses the updates made for the V1 SP2...
Date: 12/02/2010
Windows Azure Table Storage LINQ Support
Windows Azure Table storage has minimal support for LINQ queries. They support a few key operations,...
Date: 11/22/2010
Windows Azure Table PartitionKey Options for TableDomainServices
There are three primary strategies when it comes to partitioning entities across Windows Azure Table...
Date: 11/19/2010
Azure Table Storage Associations with RIA Services
For this post, I’ll assume you read my intro to Windows Azure Table Storage. If not, take a second...
Date: 11/19/2010
Silverlight TV: RIA Services Q & A
John and I went through four questions we see frequently on the WCF RIA Services forum. Here’s our...
Date: 11/12/2010
How to change the request timeout for WCF RIA Services
My teammate, Jason Cooke, put together this great article on changing the timeout in RIA Services....
Date: 11/03/2010
Using the Visual Studio Async CTP with RIA Services
I’ve been excited about this CTP for quite a while now and it’s great to finally have a chance to...
Date: 11/02/2010
RIA Services and Windows Azure Table Storage
We worked right up to the deadline, but I’m happy to say we got a preview of RIA support for Windows...
Date: 11/01/2010
Improved binding support in EntitySet and EntityCollection
For our WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta release we were finally able to improve binding support for...
Date: 10/28/2010
WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released
WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta along with WCF RIA Services October toolkit are now both available...
Date: 10/28/2010
My Thoughts on an MVVM-friendly DomainDataSource
The DomainDataSource (DDS) could be a great example of an aggregate component. It has a simple...
Date: 09/17/2010
What is an MVVM-friendly DomainDataSource?
The second most requested feature on our WCF RIA Services Wish List is an MVVM-friendly...
Date: 09/01/2010
Authorization Sample 305 – Permission-Based Authorization for Silverlight
In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a...
Date: 08/31/2010
Authorization Sample 304 – MVVM Authorization for Silverlight
In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a...
Date: 08/31/2010
Authorization Sample 303 – Metadata-Aware Authorization
In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a...
Date: 08/18/2010
Authorization Sample 302 – Site Map Navigation
In Authorization Sample 301 I explained the ins-and-outs of the authorization sample and offered a...
Date: 08/16/2010
I want my Silverlight app to look like the Zune client (part 2)
Ever since Deepesh posted this awesome article a couple months back, we’ve wanted to give you a...
Date: 08/06/2010
Mocking RIA Services Authentication and Authorization
I’m about to embark on a series of Silverlight Authorization-related posts using a shared sample...
Date: 07/14/2010
Authorization Sample 301
In Authorization Sample 201, I touched on some of the extensibility options for custom...
Date: 07/09/2010
Silverlight ComboBox Sample for RIA Services
I’ve been intending to write a sample using the ComboBox for a while. The more familiar you get with...
Date: 06/18/2010
RIA and SQL Azure
In my first post on RIA and Azure, I showed how to create and modify a RIA business application to...
Date: 06/09/2010
RIA, Azure, and IntelliTrace
IntelliTrace is not supported for the RIA Services framework. There is currently a bug in Visual...
Date: 06/09/2010
RIA and Windows Azure
Earlier this week it was announced that Windows Azure now supports .NET 4. I figured a few of you...
Date: 06/09/2010
RIA Services using https
Support for https has been part of WCF RIA Services for a while now, but most of the early posts we...
Date: 05/26/2010
RIA Services and Windows Live ID
There is a new Authentication Sample that shows how to use RIA Services with Windows Live ID (WLID)....
Date: 05/25/2010
RIA Services Authentication Out-Of-Browser
RIA Services does not support Out-Of-Browser (OOB) Forms authentication using the Client networking...
Date: 05/14/2010
Using ASP.NET Membership in Silverlight
The Authentication support in RIA Services uses ASP.NET Membership, Roles, and Profile support by...
Date: 05/10/2010
Authorization Sample 201
The attached properties described in Authorization 101 will get you going. It may even be a long...
Date: 05/03/2010
Authorization Sample 101
This is an introduction to the Authorization Sample for RIA Services. Authorization is implemented...
Date: 05/03/2010
Silverlight Authorization Sample
There have been a lot of questions recently about how to write authorization-enabled UI in...
Date: 05/03/2010
A Shout-Out (Sort of)
Jeff has a great blog where he talks about RIA Services regularly. I’d be remiss not to recommend...
Date: 04/27/2010
Welcome
Just in case we haven’t met, I’m Kyle. I make a living as a developer on the WCF RIA Services team...
Date: 04/27/2010