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According to the Press Release if you build a Silverlight 3 app in VS.net 2010 it should be able to consume .NET 4.0 web services.... What am I doing wrong?
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Hi all. I know I"m running the ragged edge here, but I'm trying to get a Silverlight 3 application to talk to the .NET 4 Data Services.
I created a Service reference and it even brought across the service.edmx properly. However, when I try and query for anything I get the following:
"Specified Method is ...
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To Microsoft on this one:
I need to be able to have a 3rd party control manufacturer do everything that Crystal/Active/Xtra Reports does. I.e. you need to port the printing stuff that is already in the .net framework to Silverlight.
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I would assume that XPS would be easier to generate since it's a variant of XAML....
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you generate a pdf or xps document in code, and then redirect to the resulting file in the browser and volia you have printing support? I realize this doesn't give you drill down etc directly, but with the new deep linking support, it should be possible to do the drill down ...
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The point is that Microsoft has made every indication that they think that the current state of affairs is just fine and dandy and wonderful. They honestly think that their font rendering is good! (just check all of the blogs by MS people on it, it's sad)
The reason I'm anoyed is because Silverlight has so much potential and ...
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Now this is priceless!
The previously undisputed king of horrible looking interfaces, Java, can get fonts right: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081207-hands-on-building-rich-internet-apps-with-javafx-1-0.html
Why in god's name can't Silverlight? Are you embrassed yet MS? If not, note, JavaFX is on ...
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Font rendering quality is a functional requirement. This is not a pretty pictures tool. This is a programming tool for developers that happens to provide really great candy that graphic designers can make use of. However if no one can read the text or it looks like a two year old made the text, it can't be used for functional ...
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Excellent Analysis! This verifies my anicdotal evidence completely!
Here, here! And Microsoft, Version 1 shouldn't have been released with this problem, and now you've got V2 with the same issue. You should be embarassed! This destroys an otherwise amazing product and makes it essentially unsable because ...
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Here's a vote for fonts that don't look like crap by default. I don't care if that includes cleartype, but man, the current fonts look AWEFUL.