Silverlight Out Of Browser Capabilities – Multi Part Blog Series using Silverlight 4

I am planning for a multi part blog series on Silverlight Out Of Browser Capabilities using Silverlight 4.

Recently I have explored the silverlight’s capabilities as an Out Of Browser application and I found it’s very much sound and interesting.

But what I have noticed is all the features of silverlight OOB (Out Of Browser) capabilities are not available at one place or not really available in proper order to explore for any developer like me. So I have decided to write a multi part blog series on Silverlight’s Out Of Browser capabilities.

So in next couple of months I will write around 8 blogs on the topic and the current list of  blogs is as following……

1.> Getting Started with Silverlight’s Out of Browser Capabilities

2.> OOB Custom window and events

3.> OOB Notification API

4.> OOB Trusted File Access

5.> OOB Trusted Network Access

6.> OOB Trusted COM API

7.> OOB XAP signing for trusted Applications

8.> OOB Using Isolated Storage

I will try to publish these blogs on time and in given order.

As I will write the blog, I will link that blog with the list given here that anyone can simply browse through any blog on the topic from here only.

I will use Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 throghout the blog series.

Issue Hosting RESTful services on IIS 7

For last 3-4 days I am trying to understand the RESTful architecture for applications.
And so for start I have created a sample REST service using “WCF REST Service Application” template in Visual Studio 2010 RC and .Net Framework 4.

At first I have tested service operations of my REST service with ‘GET’ & ‘POST’ and they were working absolutely OK.
(I have not created any client yet to test my RESTful service but I am using ‘Fiddler‘ for the purpose.)

Now when I have started testing with ‘PUT’ verb in my request to REST service through fiddler, it has returned Http Error 405 (‘Method not Allowed’).
Then I started testing ‘DELETE’ and it was also not working with the same Http Error 405.

As I am like newbie to REST Services and IIS stuff and all that, I have not understand the error described in Image above.
So I have googled this Error a lot but not found the appropriate answer and so ultimately put the question on official IIS forum as I have found by the time that, this Error is related to IIS……

Link to IIS Forum My thread ==> http://forums.iis.net/t/1166025.aspx

And Bingo……. I got the answer from the forum so quickly and that just simply worked.

The issue was WEB DAV module on IIS was throwing the Http Error 405 as it was claiming to process the request sent by my application on IIS, but my application is not configured to process it with WEB DAV module which do not support ‘PUT’ and ‘DELETE’ verbs by default.

So as a solution I have just removed WEB DAV module from my IIS 7…….
Go to IIS Manager ==> Default Web Site ==> MyRESTApplication ==> Modules(In Features View) ==> WEB DAV Module (On module right click) ==> Remove

Now evrything in my RESTful application works just great…

Flash killer is on the way… It’s Silverlight 4.0 and it’s really rocking…

Hi guys, if you are a Flash lover then it’s time to breakup now… because when you know the Silverlight 4.0 features in detail you will be definitely fall in love with Silverlight 4.0.

 Whether you are a flashy designer or developer who likes to design highly interactive games or websites or you are a high level Business Application Developer who needs great hold over the data, Silverlight 4.0 has the treat for both……

• If you are a flashy website designer then you should get started exploring following new features in Silverlight 4.0 ……….

1.> Right Mouse Click Support

2.> Mouse Wheel Support

3.> Accessing Web Camera and Microphone

4.> Silverlight Controls as Drop Targets – Drag and Drop Support

5.> Hosting HTML Content – Now you can render HTML in Silverlight

6.> Local File Access – File from Local System can be accessed

7.> “RichtextArea” and “ViewBox” Controls

8.> Right to Left Language Support – For Languages like Hebrew and Urdu and lot more…

9.> Programmatically access to Global Clipboard

• If you are a multitier Business Application Developer with complex architecture, you can start understanding Silverlight 4.0 with following new features……….

1. RIA Services support in Silverlight 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010

2. MEF for Application Extensibility – It’s Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

3. Network Authentication and Trusted Network Access

4. COM Object Access in Trusted Applications – Now you can access applications in Local System

5. Asynchronous Data Validations

6. DataGrid Enhancements in Silverlight 4.0

7. Printing APIs

8. Notification API

• Some of these features are working with “Out Of Browser Applications” developed in Silverlight 4.0.
• Currently only Silverlight 4.0 Developer Runtime is available.

I have already explored all these features and believe me, Silverlight 4.0 is simply rocking!!!

For more details on Silverlight 4.0 click any of the following links,

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/                   —  Official Microsoft Silverlight website

http://timheuer.com/blog/          —  Tim Heuer Blog – Silverlight Program Manager

http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/       — Jesse Liberty Blog – Silverlight Program Manager

http://johnpapa.net/              —  John Papa website

http://adamkinney.wordpress.com/          — Adam Kinney Blog — For Silverlight graphics, interface and Expression Blend

 

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is out !!

Hi Everyone,

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is just out on 10th February for public.

Download links for VS2010RC :

• If you have a download manager that can handle a large file, click here to download the ISO image directly.

• OR You can download the ISO image in 4 parts from here.

Install and Upgrade Instruction :

1.> You can install VisualStudio2010RC side by side to VisualStudio2008 SP1

2.> You can not install VisualStudio2010RC side by side to VisualStudio2010Beta2

So first uninstall the VisualStudio2010Beta2 and all its components from Uninstall Programs (previously “Add or Remove Programs”) and then only install the VS2010RC.

For more details on downloading Visual Studio 2010 and working with ISOs, go to this link.

For more details on what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 RC, just go to walkthroughs of VS2010RC.