Four Simple Steps issues

The Four Simple Steps walkthrough could use a little help once you get past the initial EF and DevForce setup. I built some of the UI, but there was no indication of having to add the references to System.Windows.Controls, System.Windows.Controls.Data, and System.Windows.Controls.Dataform. Plus there was no discussion of what exactly the app.config in the client project is for. I copied it in, and never could get a build. At one point, it flashed a dialog telling me to contact Tech Support. Well, it is RC1, so I'm not going to do that <g>. Finally just opened up the canned solution and it worked on the first try (after a couple of builds to get everything sync'd up). Suggest putting a little more detail in that walkthrough - it's almost like the author ran out of steam by Step 4. A little more documentation about Silverlight-related Validation and Verifiers usage, and the kinds of things you can do in the shared classes would also be nice.

Right back at ya!

Originally posted by bbakermai The Four Simple Steps walkthrough could use a little help once you get past the initial EF and DevForce setup. I built some of the UI, but there was no indication of having to add the references to System.Windows.Controls, System.Windows.Controls.Data, and System.Windows.Controls.Dataform. Plus there was no discussion of what exactly the app.config in the client project is for. I copied it in, and never could get a build. At one point, it flashed a dialog telling me to contact Tech Support. Well, it is RC1, so I'm not going to do that <g>. Finally just opened up the canned solution and it worked on the first try (after a couple of builds to get everything sync'd up). Suggest putting a little more detail in that walkthrough - it's almost like the author ran out of steam by Step 4. A little more documentation about Silverlight-related Validation and Verifiers usage, and the kinds of things you can do in the shared classes would also be nice.   Otherwise, great stuff! I like how you're still using a lot of the Alexandria bits. Bob Baker MicroApplications, Inc. Orlando CodeCamp 2009 - March 28th

Hi, Bob.

The Four Simple Steps article isn't intended as a tutorial, and particularly not as a UI tutorial. The idea was to provide an overview of the basic process for creating a DevForce Silverlight app, brief but with enough detail to be convincing. Including a lot of detail about the construction of an essentially arbitrary UI would, we felt, detract from the article's main purpose.

Similar comments regarding more detail on Verification. We felt that was a job for another time and place.

On the other hand, I recognize that we're, uh, a bit short on step-by-step tutorials for DevForce Silverlight.  The material in the "Hello DevForce" chapter of the Developers Guide is as close as we currently get. We'll fill that gap as quickly as we can.

Glad you were able to make your way through it anyway!

Hi Ben,