Programming The Life

Read Part 1 here Continuing our RegistrationBooth Application, in the previous post we ended having a data grid that displays all the attendees, let’s now implement the interface for registering a new attendee - We will create a user control for registering a new attendee, right click the Views folder in the RegistrationBooth project, select add new item, choose Silverlight User Control and name it RegisterAttendee. - Use the VS designer to add two columns for the LayoutRoot grid, one for the labels of the controls and the other for the controls, create also five rows for the different properties. - Add the four labels and four text boxes to the first four rows of the grid, these controls will be used for the FirstName, LastName, Email and company properties. - The fifth row will be for the photo, will use the Silverlight 4.0 new feature that allows us to access the webcam, so add a “Photo” label in the first column of this row, and in the second column add a Grid with three column...

I will start writing a set of posts that can be used as a tutorial  for using Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4.0 to build Silverlight 4.0 applications. so what is the application we are going to build?? Problem Statement as part of our community activities we hold many offline events, at the event we need to gather the attendees information(sort of onsite registration), give them feedback forms so that they can evaluate the sessions and also use these forms to select winners for the raffle draw. so i tried to create a simple application that we will host on a PC/Laptop at the event venue, we will call it the RegistrationBooth Application. Solution  the RegistrationBooth Application will: - Allows the user to register his/her information through a simple easy interface. - Automatically print a name tag for the user once registered. - displays a list of all the registered users. - displays the event agenda. - allows the users to easily evaluate the sessions ...

Trying to bind Silverlight controls to anonymous typed objects will not work, this is because anonymous types are internal, and Silverlight doesn't support reflecting against internal types. Sources: http://dotnetslackers.com/Community/blogs/bmains/archive/2009/04/28/silverlight-accordion-doesn-t-like-anonymous-types.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mark/archive/2008/11/18/anonymous-types-and-silverlight-databinding.aspx A solution to this is to expose your internals to the Binding framework as illustrated here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2684954/silverlight-4-data-binding-with-anonymous-types

Just a quick note to self: when you want to load associated entities in query you have to do it at two places, 1- in the query itself using the Include method public IQueryable<MasterEntity> GetItems() { return this .ObjectContext.MasterItems.Include( "DetailsEntities" ); } 2- in the associated metadata class internal sealed class MasterEntityMetadata { private MasterEntityMetadata() { } [Include] public EntitySet<DetailsEntity> DetailsEntities; }

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Here are recordings of some of the sessions delivered at Riyadh SharePoint Users Group (RSUG) Meeting (April 2010) Keynote (Cloud Computing): 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3e2MjEENrc 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2IPp9_whw 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXhps6ws5pc 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po75XEEb4Jk 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKk49Tx080I SharePoint Large Lists 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIaPFMcgvMs 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QADN47DYauw 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdOP_JUGx0 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kjBV0xl_IY 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsJqWbHn5o 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9VW2Pr5sg Windows Phone 7 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuc0zLm6p0 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3OrQpCopM 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OD5K_yyNE 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGZ2OOEE2U 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8U7K05tigM JQuery with SharePoint 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNwp4ddfn4 2. http://www....