Silverlight Futures

Did a lenghty review of current state and how Microsoft sees the world.

One claim is that business apps are all about data and manipulating data.




Got a bad seat. No pictures foe this one.

Showed how to load a datagrid from a wcf service.

Doing code writing demos.

Updatable data
Validation
Data paging
Server side filtering
Authentication
More fully feature UI
- less trivial pages
Business logic

Microsoft is Playing around with:
Navigation in base framework

Business application framework
Bus logic
Validation
Data loading
Etc...

Defining business logic patterns that will help eliminate the need to develop plumming. It stratles the client and server divide.

Had new project item called business logic class. Defines the pattern for building a business logic layer. Once you define a bus logic class defined you can instantiate it on the client and you don't have to do anything else. You didn't even have to write a service. All the plumbing was taken care of by the business logic framework. You could dive into it and modify it if you want.

Allows ypunto define business class binding in xaml so no code needed.

This could remove the need for a ton of our code.

All paging and sorting complexity hidden by framework.

New data form control.
Dataform wraps up data validation. Including in the controls.

Use partial classes to provide ways to define business logic.

New navigation framework that works with forward and back button of browser.

New authentication framework for logging in users.

Have incorporated security into bus logic framework via attributes.

These futures could be HUGE for us!!!