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YUI: Where are forms?

I am comparing ExtJS and YUI. They seem pretty much tied on the technical side. ExtJs costs money, not much. But YUI is free. Maybe I am missing something obvious, but ExtJs lets you define forms. I didn't see forms in YUI. Where are they? ...

Silverlight RIA Services - Unable to connect to SQL Server database

Hello, I am trying to get started with Silverlight. I have created a new Silverlight Business Application. The first thing I need to do with this business application is authenticate a user using the ASP.NET membership provider. I have already created my user via the Web Site Administration tool accessible through Visual Studio (Project...

Apache Pivot, Coming out of Apache Incubator to Main, feedback?

Hello guys, Apache Pivot is coming out of Apache Incubator in very near future. In your opinion What are pros and cons of it? Any specific negetive/positive points about it? ...

Comparsion of RIA Frameworks

Can someone point me to an updated comparison between the different RIA Frameworks? I spent a bunch of time googling around but only came up with outdated information (Late 2008). ...

RIA platform like Netbeans RCP

Does anyone have any experience with a really good RIA platform. I'm going to begin developing an application, and I intend to use Netbeans RCP for the thick client. I'd also like to create a RIA version of the same app. I've looked around for a RIA framework that rivals what you can get with the Netbeans RCP, and really haven't found...

Empty svc file using WCF Ria Services and ADO .NET Data Services

Hello, I have a WCF RIA project getting my data from an SQL Server 2008 via Entity framework. Everything is going well. However I would like to access data via a windows mobile so, as far as I can understand I have to create an ADO.NET Data Service. My domain service is called BusinessLogicDomainService.cs. Immediately after creating th...

Client-side image processing

We're building a web-based application that requires heavy image processing. We'd like this processing load to be on the client as much as possible and we'd like to support as much platforms (even mobiles) as much as possible. Yeah, I know, wishful thinking Here's the info: Image processing is rasterization from some data. Think lik...

What is the best approach for handling a complex form in html?

I need to implement a webform (JSP, struts) featuring loads of checkboxes and textfields. Basically I have a tree made of checkboxes which has to be extendable (like adding a new node). On another page the same data is used, but refined. So you add again child nodes to the mentioned data structure using textboxes etc. I can describe the ...

Apache Pivot 1.4 vs. JavaFX, Flex, Silverlight, Swing

I've recently heard about Apache Pivot being moved to the Top Level Projects category and I was wondering who has tried the most recent version and compared it to other RIA tools. What are the proper categories for comparison? It seems to be easier to pick up for Java developers since JavaFX has a different scripting language. The Pi...

RIA Custom Authentication via Oracle DataBase in C#

Hi. I'm new to Silverlight and I need to develop some tiny web app with it. My requirements: User always need to be authenticated; Unauthenticated users cannot see any page. Authentication data is located in Oracle DataBase. That's all =) But I can't do it =( Because I've tried RIA and can't change it to Oracle. Thanx very much fo...

Querying a SQL View, with Linq in a Domain Services Class and Entity Data Model

Visual Studio 2008 | Silverlight 3 | SQL Server 2005 | Domain Services Class | Entity Data Model I have a database table "Students" with columns FirstName, LastName, Semester, ProgramOfStudy, Column etc....... The goal is to return a Total (number of students grouped by first letter of lastname), based on the first letter of the lastna...

.Net RIA Services: Javascript callback forces full reload of the application

Hi, I've successfully implemented a Javascript call from Silverlight (i'm calling a java applet). When the user finishes using the applet, I'd like to send the data back to Silverlight; so I've created a callback function: [ScriptableMember] public void DoCallback(string svalue) { MessageBox.Show(s, "Value from Appl...

A newbie question on cairngorm

I am very new to Flex (started learning a couple of days back), I now have some understanding on how to create user interfaces with Flex and how to do MVC with Cairngorm and I really started liking it. But I am still lost with changing views using Cairngorm or entirely in Flex. Being a Java/J2EE developer for more than 10 years, it helps...

extjs: how can I add event handlers to a component in its raw object form (xtype)

I have an extjs component in its raw object type, for example: var x = { xtype: 'button', text: 'Delete', handler: whatever, more:config, more2: config2}; Now I want to add some listener to x. In my scenario I don't have access to the x object before or right after it is created. I just want to add an event handler ...

Databind a RIA Entity to a Custom Form

Hello All! I have a question very similar to this gent in this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864567/wcf-ria-services-loading-data-and-binding in which the poster was trying to figure out how to use ria to bind to something other than the common scenrios overviewed in the numerous online examples (ie bind to an item source ...

Simple RIA backend

I'm creating a prototype for a java web application. Frontend is a Swing-based java applet. Backend should be a type of web-service, that is called by applet. Backend should run inside a servlet container and should have its own security (username/password) database. I know, that Tomcat has its own user database (realm), but the app shou...

In WCF Ria Services, is it possible to other to connect to my Service? If yes, how can I ban it.

Is it possible for others to connect to my defined services in my Ria application. If yes, how can we remove this access? Thanks in advanced! ...

WCF RIA Services and communicating via SSL

I have a simple Silverlight application that use WCF RIA Services to communicate with the ASP.NET application on my web server. By default I assume that this communication is plain and not encrypted in any way. How do you request it use SSL or some other method to ensure that all data via the WCF RIA Service is secure? ...

WCF RIA Services - Loading multiple entities

Hello, I'm looking for a pattern to solve the following problem, which I imagine is common. I am using WCF RIA Services to return multiple entities to the client, on initial load. I want both entities to load asyncrhonously, so as not to lock the UI, and I'd like to leverage RIA Services to do this. My solution, below, seems to work....

WCF RIA services?

Does WCF RIA services supports custom methods? also in which dll can i find the "[Custom]" attribute? ...