My Rants and Raves
In building my Silverlight RC example using ADO.NET Data Services for Entity Framework and NHibernate I ran into what I think is a common pattern. I am writing an editor for XBox game data. The model for this data uses decorator tables in the database which are modeled as a common "Product" class and derived "Game", "Console" and "Accessory" classes. In the application I am using paging to only look at fifty results at once. This works fine on both sides.
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After digging and some prodding by a PM at Microsoft, I realize that the relative URI story in WebClient is different that I expected. I am not sure whether this changed from previous versions but Beta 2 and the RC this is the way that Relative URI's work in WebClient:
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When making web requests in Silverlight 2, its easy to start with the simple WebClient class. In fact, it supports making simple requests (DownloadStringAsync and OpenReadAsync) as well as uploading through the class. On the other hand there are some that swear by the WebRequest route. What's the big difference?
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I was crufting up a sample LINQ to JSON example today to post in my blog but something odd happened. I couldn't find a public service that both used JSON and supports a security policy file. Let me clarify that.
There was a great turnout for tonight Atlanta Geek Dinner. I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the conversations that were to be had (technical, political and even some SharePoint).
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