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In a past post (Facebook Connect Post) I showed everyone how to set up an application in Facebook and how to use Facebook Connect with Silverlight to create a simple login screen.  That was a trivial proof of concept to show how one might implement such things on their Silverlight App.  This post will build on the previous post, and introduce a very alpha version of a Silverlight client side api I have been working on for a little bit. 

I was working with a client that wanted to have a default button clicked when an enter key is pressed in a textbox (password box to be more specific) within a Silverlight or WPF application. I didn't think much of it. I'll just listen to the event, bind to the button, and click the button on the enter key event. The listening and binding portion is not very tough with an attached property and a little Silverlight 3 element to element binding love. The tricky part came in when I wanted to cause the button click event to be raised. I ended up having to take a page from Josh Smith http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/how-to-programmatically-click-a-button/. Thank you, Josh! This may not be the best way to do this, but it works for me.

Today I found my self hanging out after a sprint review with my partner in crime Kevin Rohling.  TFS was down (not tfs's fault, but some other freak accident...) and I hadn't installed VS 2010 yet, so it seemed like the perfect time to do such things. I got everything up and running, and Kevin and I got into a discussion about Dynamics & performance. We made a quick lunch bet on which is faster, reflection or dynamics for simply setting a property. I figured reflection would be quicker, while Kevin thought dynamics would be faster. Well, I owe him lunch now. The code is below.