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DevForce is a framework for building and operating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).

DevForce provides a complete framework for building enterprise applications for Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Phone 7, and a variety of non-.NET clients.

See www.ideablade.com for details.

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How can i access a control in mvvm model in viewmodel?

I have a WPF Window, and in that window I have a grid. I use M-V-VM model and I want to add a TextBox to the grid dynamically in code(in viewmodel) How can I get access to the grid?
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Pass in an Expression to linq's Select

This is linq-to-sql I have a lot of different classes all doing the same query, but projecting the results slightly differently. Ideally I'd like to be able to have the query in one place, and have the projection passed into the Select method. It…
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How can I prevent Visual Studio from creating license.licx

We use 3rd party controls in our project. Almost every time when I double click on a file which has a design view too, Visual Studio tries to bring up the designer with heroic effort, and after some unresponsiveness it delivers (gives birth to) a…
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Need advice for large .net data access layer

Starting up a new project it is 100% new development against a very large (300 tables) legacy database. The database does not match up all that well to the business model so my initial thoughts where to use a ORM. I got a proof of concept working…
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Can a WCF data contract contain a WCF operation contract inside it? Why?

I have a data contract say User. It is serializable and goes across the wire. I want an Operation Contract SaveUser(). I can keep SaveUser(User user) in my service contract as an operation contract. But can I keep it inside my data contract itself…
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Should I learn Linq to SQL even though its being rolled into Entity Framework?

I am looking to learn Linq to query MS SQL databases, but am unsure of which path to take. I read recently that Linq to SQL is being rolled into Entity Framework, and development has maybe stagnated. Is it worth learning Linq to SQL still? Or should…
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LINQ Union between two tables with the same fields and then returned in a collection

I have given up trying to create a linq query to retrieve a sql server view which is a union between two tables. I will now try to create a linq union. I have two views, MemberDuesPaid and MemberDuesOwed. They have the same fields in both; (BatchNo,…
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Need to wrap my head around Async operations

I have custom control and I have interface this control exposes to it's users. public interface ILookupDataProvider { string IdColumnName { get; } IEnumerable Metadata { get; set; } void GetDataAsync(string parameters, …
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How to edit a Word Document (.docx) stored in a SQL Server Table?

How to edit a Word Document (.docx) stored in a SQL Server Table? Here is the tentative work flow: Read BLOB from SQL Table through Ideablade Write BLOB to disk as .docx Open .docx using Word User makes changes Save .docx using Word …
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Is OData intended for use within Government and Financial envrionments? What security precautions do I need?

At first brush, OData seems like it will only appeal to "open" databases, and would never be used in envrionments where security is needed, especially with financial or government clients. Is this the correct perspective to have with the current…
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Help choose a code generation tools for ASP.NET

I am new to the code generation tools and I would like to know how does a tool like LLBGen Pro compares with the Entity Framework? On top of that my boos is really looking into a tool called CodeOnTime http://codeontime.com/default.aspx because he…
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DevForce supporting Xamarin?

I came across this post on Ideablade´s forum: http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4635&KW=xamarin&PID=17331&title=devforce-2014#17331 I find this question interesting, but there is no response from Ideablade. Does Ideablade have any…
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WCF Data Service vs WCF RIA Service

I need to evaluate SOA architecture between WCF Data Services vs WCF RIA Services. Following are some of my parameters: Multiple Client (HTML5/iOS/Android/Windows 8 Metro/Windows Phone 7) Disconnected and offline operation Validation…
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Persistence Framework for Silverlight

Besides the framework from Infragistics, what other persistence frameworks exist for Silverlight?
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How to stop Ideablade DevForce writing to C:\Program Files\AppName\debuglog.xml in Vista

I have an application that uses Ideablade Devforce as it's OR mapper. When the application starts up it wants to write to the debuglog.xml file in C:\Program Files\Application Name\ This works fine in Windows XP, but due to Vista's locked down write…
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