Author: Slobodan Pavkov

Silverlight 4 is over and out so ‘the dude abides’

Finally Visual Studio 2010 is out and so is the Silverlight 4. I got few complaints that my MVVM demo applications are not working properly for people that have the new Silverlight 4 runtime installed so i updated all the examples so they run properly. Also all solutions files with code are recompiled and checked in final version of VS 2010 so this should run fine now. Expect soon more MVVM goodness on this blog, and until then – just enjoy the spring!  😀

Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4

In all my previous MVVM in Silverlight 4 posts i was avoiding to address one painful aspect of the Silverlight: calling WCF Web Services. And it was not without reason. Lets face it, consuming WCF Web Services from your Silverlight application can be pretty hard. I mean hard to do it in a clean way off course. Yes we all know how to create a Silverlight enabled WCF Web Service from Visual Studio but things become messy from that point. First question is how to invoke methods of the web service? Should we use Add Web Service Reference from the Visual…

Back online

We are back online again! I had some problems with hosting of this blog on GoDaddy and their tech support was not really being helpful so it took a while to put everything back in place. At the end i had to figure everything out by myself since their comment was something like ‘All is fine on our side, its your scripts that are causing problems…’ Never mind that, the important thing is that its fixed now. Next time when i will be buying hosting i will definitely be more careful. I took this chance and converted all the MVVM…