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Here’s the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an application framework for building modular and pluggable line of business application in both Silverlight [...]

I will be the main speaker at the next workshop organized by DotNetMarche (the .Net User-group I belongs to); the workshop is organized in collaboration with Microsoft and it is part of the official ‘Microsoft Days Community After Hours’ events.
I will show the basis of how to build a multi-target (Silverlight+WPF) line of business application [...]

If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation (cause usually those ORM tools tend to inject their own implementation of the collection [...]

It’s time to write the last chapter of this series and take a look at how the resizing capability of the Window is implemented. Since the last time some new feature were added:

Code ported to Silverlight 2.0 RTW.
Solution refactored, the control is now available as a standalone assembly.
The template of the Window has [...]

Today I added a small Silverlight application to an existing and styled website, the app was surrounded by the usual <div>:

1: <div style="height: 100%">
2: <asp:Silverlight ID="Xaml1" runat="server" Source="~/ClientBin/XXX.xap"
3: MinimumVersion="2.0.31005.0" Width="100%" Height="100%" />
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