Posts from September



Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata

A first stab at creating a fluent API for specifying metadata to declare validation rules and UI hints, rathen than "ugly" buddy classes, using the .NET RIA Services metadata pipeline extensibility.

Dialogs and ViewModel - Using Tasks as a Pattern

This post describes the additions to Silverlight.FX to facilitate dialog UI scenarios in the context of a ViewModel/MVVM-based application... using a Task-pattern, where a view model surfaces a child task view model, and the view launches a dialog to present the task to the user.