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August 2007 - Posts

Passing Data Between Pages In Navigation Based Applications

Unless you are using a navigation based application for just browsing and navigating back and forth to multiple pages, you will probably need to pass some data from one page to another.  In this presentation, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to pass data from one page to another in navigation based applications.

Author: Todd Miranda

Posted: Aug 25 2007, 12:44 AM by jaytayl | with 2 comment(s)
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Using a WinForm With a Web Service

In this video Pat Tormey shows us how to set up a Winform for use as a web service.

Author: Pat Tormey

WPF Navigation Application

Navigation in a WPF navigation application can be accomplished with the NavigationService class.  There are multiple ways to utilize this class to facilitate navigation.  In this presentation Todd Miranda demonstrates the use of the NavigationService class to navigate in a WPF navigation application.

Author: Todd Miranda

Posted: Aug 25 2007, 12:25 AM by jaytayl | with 1 comment(s)
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How To Use Web Service Datasets in a Winform

In this video Pat Tormey shows us how to use Web Service Datasets in a Winform, how to hook it in to existing web services, and how to set up the data for easy editing.

Author: Pat Tormey

Create Gadget Style Windows in WPF

WPF makes it easy to completely customize the look and feel (chrome) of application windows including creating custom shapes and enabling transparency.  Utilizing these features, it is an easy task to create gadget style applications, applications that appear to be application objects that float on the desktop.  This is very similar to the gadgets in use in the Vista Sidebar.  In this presentation Todd Miranda demonstrates the five things needed to create this type of application window. 

Author: Todd Miranda

Posted: Aug 09 2007, 06:39 PM by jaytayl | with 6 comment(s)
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Data Sets as Web Services

In this video Pat Tormey explains how to build a Dataset as a class library and run it as a web service.

Author: Pat Tormey

Expense Sample

The Acropolis Expense sample is a line of business application scenario implemented in Acropolis.  In this presentation we review its functionality and explore the structure of the application, and in so doing, demonstrate how the various pieces of Acropolis fit together to make rich application composition easier while maintaining a clean separation of business logic and presentation logic.

Authors: David Poll and Daniel Irwin