Linq to NHibernate: how to query on a property without setter

Recently I’ve started to play with Linq to NHibernate and I have to say it work pretty well for the scenarios I’m facing. It also helped me to ‘re-learn’ some things on NHibernate I usually forget. Let’s consider the case in which we have a cl...


Silverlight / WCF: fixing the Custom WCF Proxy Generator

Some days ago I blogged about how you can build your own Custom WCF Proxy generator to extend the classes it generates and add some validation logic (or whatever you like). Well playing with the MusicStore sample and making some changes to my ...


Last few days to sign up for the 12th DotNetMarche / Community Tour 2009 workshop

For all my Italian readers (especially all that reside in Marche) these are the last few days to sign up and participate at our last workshop of the year.To sign-up visit the DotNetMarche website: www.dotnetmarche.org.The technical sessions wil...


Silverlight: how to fix the Silverlight Toolkit templates to add Validation States

Using the control templates provided by the Silverlight toolkit I just noticed that those style do not support the validation states for displaying validation errors. Since you have access to the templates adding them is a quite easy - but bor...


Silverlight / WCF : Writing your own Custom WCF Proxy Generator to support validation

Working on the data validation section of different projects in Silverlight we usually have to face the standard problem: basically in Silverlight 3 the data validation framework relies on exceptions thrown in the setter of objects properties.I...


Silverlight and the AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR - a thrilling story!

Working on the MusicStore project for the next DotNetMarche workshop I had the following scenario: - A Web Service used to provide some data and images to the application. - A Silverlight application (on a different website) that consumes the...


Getting ready for the 12th DotNetMarche Workshop “Community Tour 2009”

We at DotNetMarche (our local, Italian .Net user group) are currently working on the last workshop for this year, it will be just before the Christmas Holidays on December 18th. The event will be divided in 2 different trances: in the morning w...