Copyright 2010 Michael Knopf's BlogDesigning databases: examples and techniques.In this post we will cover Silverlight from start to finish; including architecting, coding, testing, and deploying real-world Silverlight apps. We will also discuss security, its limitations, and what you need to know to secure your application and WCF services and deploy them to IIS.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/building-real-world-data-driven-silverlight-applications.htmlSat, 29 Aug 2009 22:43:54 GMT2009-08-29T22:43:54When most of us design our databases we tend to think of them as related (and un-related) tables that contain data. It is common to normalize our tables in order to create a cleaner, more manageable, and intuative Database design. Normalized means separate tables via foreign key relationship, there are however things that we should consider before we normalize our system...http://www.mknopf.com/articles/normalized-vs-denormalized.htmlTue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT2008-09-09T00:00:00Lazy Loading is the idea of providing an objects related information only when you actually need it, instantiating related objects and populating its properties when its first requested and not before. This reduces the amount of processing power required by giving you what you ask for in smaller bites (or should i say Bytes)...http://www.mknopf.com/articles/basics-of-lazy-loading.htmlMon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT2008-07-21T00:00:00http://www.mknopf.com/topics/database-design-and-coding.htmlSat, 18 Oct 2008 20:46:32 GMTen-us