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Archive for July, 2009

Pro Flex on Spring by APress

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I wanted to announce that a book that I was the technical reviewer for has been published. It’s called Pro Flex on Spring and published by APress. It shows some of the best practices that have been developed for accessing Spring framework application from Flex. custom book report , pay for research paper

Compiling Flex without Flex Builder

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Flex builder is a great tool that I highly recommend. Using it provides great features such as design preview and debugging. You can get a free 30 day evaluation of it at Adobe’s website. There are times, however, that you might find yourself in need of compiling a Flex application and you don’t have access [...]

Passing Parameters to a Silverlight Webpart in SharePoint

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In this blog, I will outline the steps necessary to pass initialization parameters to a Silverlight webpart within SharePoint.  Due to the client-side processing nature of Silverlight applications, it is not easy to get server-side information for use in your Silverlight application during runtime.  Fortunately, leveraging the SilverlightApp.InitParameters property makes it quite straight-forward to pass [...]

Using SharePoint Web Services to Integrate SharePoint and Silverlight

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When integrating Silverlight with a SharePoint site, it becomes apparent very early on that using data that lives in SharePoint in your Silverlight application will be difficult.  The reason being that Silverlight applications run on the client-side.  Therefore, a developer wanting to extract list data or use files hosted in SharePoint cannot simply use the [...]

Setup a Silverlight 2 Development Box

By ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The release of Silverlight 3 adds some great new features (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx), but one cumbersome obstacle now is the ability to continue development in Silverlight 2. With all the automatic updates and installation files forcing you to upgrade to 3, it was quite tough to get a new development environment up and running for developing Silverlight [...]

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