June 2009 Entries
In this final installment of the Silverlight 3 testing screencast series, I dive into the Test Framework's asynchronous capabilities and how we can apply them to tests involving control elements and services outside of our Silverilght application. This feature is very useful for testing business applications which rely on external services for data exchange.
My deepest gratitude and respect to Jeff Wilcox for developing the Silverlight Testing Framework and maintaining it with quality updates. Thanks to his efforts, not only can we all enjoy coninuing stable releases of the Silverlight...
I cover how to set up unit testing in Silverlight 3 along with some gotchas for the new deep-linking feature of Silverlight Navigation Applications.
Be sure to download the following binaries for the Silverlight Test Framework
And the Silverlight Test Framework Project and Object Templates
This is an introduction to the 3-part series of Test-Driven Development for Silverlight 3. This is a quick overview of test-driven development and some of it's advantages.
Be sure to download the following binaries for the Silverlight Test Framework
And the Silverlight Test Framework Project and Object Templates
Adding membership and role functionality to Silverlight 2.0 is no easy task, but fortunately for us, RIA Services makes it a snap with 3.0, in fact it's practically built-in. This 5 minute screencast shows how to create a Silverlight 3.0 business application with membership and how to assign your own membership and role providers with existing aspnet or membership databases. If you don't already have it, you will need to download the .NET RIA Services SDK Refresh.
Here is a 12 minute tutorial on how you can make borderless buttons in Silverlight 3.0 which pop out with 3D effects using control templates and pixel shaders while working in Expression Blend 3.0 Preview Edition.