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Ask Your Questions: Dead Island
Remember when you went on holiday to a remote yet stunning tropical island with Mum, Dad, your brother and his best mate who smelt worryingly of extremely strong cigarettes? Wasn’t the sand betwixt your toes a golden warmth; the piercing blue ocean an inviting oasis from a beating, glimmering sun? And remember when everyone got infected with virus and you had to man up and start cracking zombie skulls?
No? Well, Techland certainly had the most violent and haunting childhood getaways, and their upcoming game Dead Island looks set to tug at your heartstrings. As you tug open some undead flesh.
We have an exclusive interview with the Dead Island team, and since we asked all of our readers to contribute to our Resistance 3 interview, we thought that those who prefer the rotting corpses of loved ones to the slimy scales of invading aliens might feel left out if we didn’t let you take part in this one, too. Just follow the steps below; you should be used to them by now.
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Catch the Kid App Tracks Billy the Kid in New Mexico for $10,000 Award
With a potential ,000 bounty for the first “posse” to present “The Kid” with an arrest warrant, this has to be one of the best summer travel ideas ever. Sure, there have been widespread crowd sourcing scavenger hunts across the country, but this app allows you to explore a major part of history as well as truly explore all the great sights and sounds New Mexico has to offer.
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© by gregdawson for AppCraver, originally posted 2011.
Weekly Article Digest 08/29/2011
Take a look at the three new SilverlightShow articles from last week (Aug 22 – 28, 2011), ranked by popularity:
- Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 3: Going visual with screens by Gill Cleeren
- Windows Phone 7 Iconography by Peter Kuhn
- Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: HttpWebRequest by Andrea Boschin
All of the articles have been exclusively authored for SilverlightShow.
Tags: 08/29/2011, Article, Digest, Weekly
A Short Look At TrustedID’s Identity Theft Protection
Most individuals are not aware that credit companies sell your credit information to any business that provides a valid reason for needing the information. The good news is, FACTA was put into law in 2003 which forces the reporting agencies to allow you to put a Fraud Alert on your account. Along with other issues, FACTA forces lending institutions to verify your identity before they can lend you any money. In this article you should find some more interesting information about your credit and Identity Theft. Furthermore, looking into this trustedid coupons is a prudent idea.
Something else that many people never consider is that their medical information can be stolen. Thieves are using other people’s identities to have major surgery and expensive treatments. You should consider checking up on your medical information to make sure there are no errors and then track down how they appeared. This could threaten your life if a thief were to have blood work and the new typing changes your record blood type. You could die as a result of this fraud if you ever need a blood transfusion.
More than $200 billion dollars a year are being lost by businesses due to Identity theft. Most companies have to resort to starting their own Fraud Alert departments, which do nothing but track down and then prosecute these criminal offenders. It is more important that ever for you to keep track of your credit and medical information and monitor everything that goes on with your personal information. Aside from taking care of your own paperwork, being educated about new information about identity theft protection is important.
Whatever monitoring service you may wish to choose, there are some measures you can take to help prevent your identity from being stolen. If you don’t already have one, but a good document shredder and make use you shred all pieces of paper that could have any of your information on them, even the envelopes because they can have your name and address printed on them. Get a bank box or extremely good home safe and keep all your important papers, like birth certificates, loan applications, member cards, social security cards, marriage certificates, passports and any other documents which have vital information on them.
TrustedID monitors all three bureaus to notify you if there are any changes, and alerts you when there is any activity, and you get a credit report from each bureau. The Fraud Alert Reminder lets you know when your alerts are due to expire before the 90 days.
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About 20% of the identity thefts are related to credit information, and the other 80% are involved with other forms of information stealing and manipulation. Considering that even your medical information is at risk of being stolen it could be the best time to find out more about the details found in this TrustedID Review. Learning about identity protection services is your first step towards financial security, and your second is using a service like TrustedID.
Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 4: To query or to code, that is the question!
Don’t miss…
- Recording of Gill’s advanced Silverlight 5 webinar
- Recording of Gill’s LightSwitch webinar
- The Ebook: Beginners Guide to LightSwitch (MOBI and EPUB formats added)
Welcome to part 4 in this article series on LightSwitch development. Now that we have deeply covered data and screens, the third fundamental, queries, is up next. Queries are used to get the data in screens; hence they are the missing link between these two. After we’ve looked at how we can influence the application by changing queries, we’ll start writing code in LightSwitch. In the previous part, we already wrote a couple of lines of code. In this part, we’ll see more places where coding is possible and in some cases, required.
The code for this article (as the solution is at the end) can be downloaded here.
Queries
Using a query, we can get data from the data source to the screen. When creating a new table, LightSwitch will automatically create 2 queries for us. The first one returns all items from the table (basically a SELECT * FROM TABLE). The second one returns a single instance (which effectively results in either 0 or 1 record being returned). In the screen designer, when clicking on the Add Data Item button, we can see these 2 queries, as shown in the screenshot below:
We can add these queries to a screen to return data. In fact, there are 2 types of queries in LightSwitch. As mentioned, each screen displaying data has a query. This is a local query, which is only used for one single screen. Secondly, we can create queries as part of the model. This query is more like a global query.
Local queries
When we create a new screen based on a table, LightSwitch will add a local query automatically. In the screenshot below where we are creating a new editable grid screen for Movies, the query is shown on the right.
By default, this is the “return me all the data you can find in the Movie table” query. However, with this screen, we want to show currently playing movies (in the Movie table, I’ve added a IsCurrentlyPlaying property without telling you…). To edit the query for this screen, we can click on the Edit Query link at the top of the right pane in the screenshot above. We now arrive in the query designer. This basically allows us to do filtering, sorting and adding parameters. For this demo, we can add a filter that says that only return Movies where the IsCurrentlyPlaying property is true as shown in the screenshot below. The results are shown ascending order based on the Title field.
Note that the query designer is smart enough to know what type the field has and based on that, it will show more or less options. Should we add a Filter based on the Id property, more options are possible since this field is of type Integer.
The query we have now created is bound to the screen we are using it in, it’s a local query. If we have put a lot of work in creating in, we’re basically stuck in terms of reusing it on another screen. If we want to build a query that we can reuse, we can do so.
Global queries
In the Solution Explorer, we can right-click on a table. One of the options that pops out, is the Add query one. When clicking this, we arrive again in the query designer. One important difference here is that the query now becomes part of the model: it can be seen directly linked to the table.
We can now use this query to base one or more screens upon. When adding a screen, we see this query pop up in the list together with the table entities. Note that you’ll see it appearing only with some templates, the Details template won’t show it for example.
This screen will now automatically use this query to start with. If we want, we can again edit the query and add new filters.
This type of query is global for the entire application to be used.
Parameters in queries
Assume that we want to change the screen so that the user can use a checkbox to indicate whether he wants to see only the currently playing movies. Let’s look at how we can build this.
In the query designer, we’ll now use a parameter for the filter, as shown below.
The parameter should be added as well. The parameter is named IsCurrentlyPlaying (you can give it any name really).
Now, in the screen designer for the screen, add a Data Property. Select a Boolean value and give it a name.
Again in the screen designer, select the parameter in the query. In the Properties window, under Parameter Binding, you can select the Boolean value you just added. If done correctly, an arrow appears that points to the parameter as shown below.
Finally, we need to add this Boolean value to the screen. To do so, select the Rows layout (root of the screen) and click on the Add button at the very bottom. In the context menu, select the Is Currently Playing parameter.
We can now see this parameter appearing as a checkbox in the screen.
Coding queries
The query designer only allows us so much; we can’t do all the things that we’re used with regular queries or LINQ (sum, top, count…). However, when we run into a limit here, we can start writing code.
Assume that we only want to return to the user a maximum of 100 movies in the grid. This is not possible with the query designer. However, inside the query designer, another Write Code button is winking at us:
In the PreProcessQuery method, we have access to the query before it is being executed. The query object is of type IQueryable, meaning that we can add an expression onto the object. This will then be combined with the normal query and the optimal query will be executed on the data source.
In the code below, we are adding to the query that we only want the top 100 results. Behind the scenes, LightSwitch will not fetch all records and then show only the first 100. Instead, the query that will be built includes a TOP 100 statement.
partial void CurrentlyPlayingMovies_PreprocessQuery(ref IQueryable<Movie> query)
{
query = (from q in query
select q).Take(100);
}
This last part was a good bridge to the next part, writing code in LightSwitch.
Coding in LightSwitch
Although one of the important principles of LightSwitch says “No code required”, quite often, real applications will be code to be written. The tools and designers can only take you so far. When it comes to writing validation or business logic, code is going to be required. That being said, the code written in most LightSwitch applications will be limited. There’s no need to start writing code that says how to build up the screen or fetch the data. All of that is handled by LightSwitch.
LightSwitch offers quite a lot of places in the code where we can hook into, in the form of partial methods. Most of the code that we have to write will go in these partial methods as we’ll see soon. The code we are writing is Silverlight code.
Validation rules
As said, validation is one place where very often, code is required. Let’s take a look at writing a rule. LightSwitch creates for each property a Validate partial method in the generated code. We can thus easily add our own code. Let’s add validation rules for the ShowTime table.
The end time for a ShowTime should always be later than the starting time.
To implement this rule, we can select the StartTime field and click on Write code à StartTime_Validate. In this method, we can add the following code:
partial void StartTime_Validate(EntityValidationResultsBuilder results)
{
if (EndTime < StartTime)
results.AddPropertyError("Start time should be earlier than end time");
}
Similarly, for the EndTime field, add:
partial void EndTime_Validate(EntityValidationResultsBuilder results)
{
if (EndTime < StartTime)
results.AddPropertyError("End time should be later than start time");
}
Note that both these methods are partial. They are guaranteed to be called by LightSwitch, we don’t need to write any logic for that. LightSwitch will call these when validation is required on these fields, i.e. when the value has changed.
LightSwitch offers feedback to the user automatically in the UI:
If the showing is private (PrivateShowTime is true), the EndTime should be before 4pm. This rule is enforced by MoviePolis management. We can add another rule using the following code:
partial void PrivateShowTime_Validate(EntityValidationResultsBuilder results)
{
if (PrivateShowTime.HasValue && PrivateShowTime.Value)
if (StartTime.Hour > 16 || EndTime.Hour > 16)
{
results.AddPropertyError("Private showings can't be after 4pm");
}
}
A validation error is shown in the UI when setting a time later than 4pm and checking the checkbox for PrivateShowTime, as can be seen below:
Business rules
When adding a new movie to the system, a new show time needs to be added automatically as well. MoviePolis has a rule that new movies should have their first showing on the next Friday at 8pm. We can add this business rule. For this, we have to hook into the save pipeline offered by LightSwitch. This pipeline can be seen as a series of events that happen after one another, for example when adding an entity. For this particular rule, we have to hook into the Inserting event of the Movie entity as follows.
In the table designer, with the Movie table open, click on the Write Code àMovies_Inserting (note that you should have the entity selected, not any of the fields).
In the partial method, we can write code that checks to find the next upcoming Friday and it will add a new instance of ShowTime for that day.
partial void Movies_Inserting(Movie entity)
{
var todayDayOfWeek = DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;
DateTime nextFriday;
switch (todayDayOfWeek)
{
case DayOfWeek.Friday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now;
break;
case DayOfWeek.Saturday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(6);
break;
case DayOfWeek.Sunday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(5);
break;
case DayOfWeek.Monday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(4);
break;
case DayOfWeek.Tuesday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(3);
break;
case DayOfWeek.Wednesday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(2);
break;
case DayOfWeek.Thursday:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
break;
default:
nextFriday = DateTime.Now;
break;
}
DateTime showTimeStart = new DateTime(nextFriday.Year, nextFriday.Month,
nextFriday.Day, 20, 0, 0);
var newShowTime = new ShowTime();
newShowTime.Movie = entity;
var room =
from r in DataWorkspace.MoviePolisRoomManagementData.Rooms
where r.RoomName == "Room 1"
select r;
newShowTime.Room = room.First();
newShowTime.StartTime = showTimeStart;
newShowTime.EndTime = showTimeStart.AddHours(2);
entity.ShowTimes.Add(newShowTime);
}
The result can be seen below:
Custom screens with code
To finish off this part on coding, we’ll take another look at building a custom screen from scratch but now including code (in the previous article, we already looked at creating screens from scratch as well).
For this demo, assume that we are building a custom screen where the user can enter showtimes. Assume for this demo that private show times should not have an end time filled in (the people from MoviePolis don’t want their best customers to be rushed out of the room!). To do so, we’ll add a checkbox for the IsCurrentlyPlaying. When true, the end time field is shown, otherwise, it’s hidden. Let’s look at how we can create this.
Create a new data screen, but don’t select any data to be added (we’re starting from scratch, remember). On this screen, we’ll add a local property of type ShowTime:
Next, add 2 properties of type DateTime and a third one of type Boolean. Your screen should now resemble the following screenshot:
Now, we’ll write some code.
In the InitializeDataWorkspace method, we’ll write some initialization logic:
partial void CreateNew_InitializeDataWorkspace(List<IDataService> saveChangesTo)
{
// Write your code here.
IsCurrentlyPlaying = true;
}
Now, we’ll add code for the Changed events of the ShowTimeStart and the IsCurrentlyPlaying property.
partial void ShowTimeStart_Changed()
{
ShowTimeEnd = ShowTimeStart.AddHours(2);
}
partial void IsCurrentlyPlaying_Changed()
{
this.FindControl("ShowTimeEnd").IsVisible = IsCurrentlyPlaying;
}
Using the FindControl method, we are able to search for a control on the UI and execute code on it.
When we change the value for the start time, the end time value will be updated as well.
When unchecking the Is Currently Playing field, the Show End Time field will be hidden as can be seen below:
Summary
In this article, we’ve taken a look at the options we have when using queries in LightSwitch applications. Next, we have seen several places where it’s required to write code, including validation, business rules and custom screens.
In the next article, we’ll be diving into deployment and security!
About Gill Cleeren
Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), Silverlight MVP (former ASP.NET MVP), INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechEd Berlin 2010, TechDays Belgium, DevDays NL, NDC Oslo Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switserland, Spring Conference UK, Silverlight Roadshow in Sweden… He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and for SilverlightShow.net. He organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium.
He also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. Gill recently published his first book: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” (Packt Publishing). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.
Twitter: @gillcleeren
Tags: applications, code, Developing, LightSwitch, Part, query, question, realworld
War under the Stars
This is your last chance to get signed up on our newsletter before the Subscriber Special weekend kick-starts with the first and best Warpath Army Deals – that’s right folks, they are coming this weekend, infantry, vehicles, heroes and all.
After the last two days of hero sculpts, today we can bring you the cover for the forthcoming starter set, the name of which is to be unveiled next week!
Warpath – Outer Space has just got more dangerous
This is an action packed piece by the artist who did the cover for both Dwarf King’s Hold. Here the Forge Father’s tackle the on-coming Marauder hordes, a war under the three moons. We’ve left the image as big as possible (click the thumbnail to expand!) so you can get in close and see all the little details and actions that are occuring in the piece.
Let us know what you think below!
Current Events Stream By on FLUD for iPad and iPhone
Whether you’re pulling rss feeds on an iPhone or an iPad, the multi-thumbnail info grid — or stack depending upon the device — promised to revolutionize what you expect from your digital daily news. There’s no doubt that FLUD has a lot to offer, but a year after debuting with a flurry of accolades and awards, is this app still worth a download?
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© by Barbara for AppCraver, originally posted 2011.
Psychologists Encourage Doodling In The Classroom – Especially In Science Class!
If you were back in school doodling what you learned, you may have chosen an entirely different career.
Inventor Spot – Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
Tags: class, Classroom, Doodling, Encourage, Especially, Psychologists, Science
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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love.
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