John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
This Wednesday evening at 6:30pm, thanks to the good people of INETA, I will be presenting ADO.NET Data Service and Silverlight at the Space Coast .NET User Group in Melbourne, Florida [http://scdnug.org/Home.aspx]. I really enjoyed the group last year when I spoke about the Entity Framework. If you
I’ve been working on fine tuning a Silverlight progress control for an article with Simple-Talk.com. Along the way I wanted to create a background that dims the entire page while the progress control is up and running. Easy stuff … just stick it in a Grid panel with HorizontalAlignment and VerticalA
If you work with Silverlight a lot like I do, you might be frustrated with the time it takes Visual Studio to try to render the preview of your Silverlight Views. This can be a painful process, especially when the View gets more complicated … because sometimes Visual Studio cannot even display the p
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882515.aspx]My Data Points column in the June 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882515.aspx]. In this issue I demonstrate how to build an out of browser application using Silverlight 3 and demonstrate ho
This is not the first time I have hit this issue, and it has been documented by people like Julie Lerman … but for my own sake I decided to blog about it in case I hit it again. It seems like I run into this issue just about the time I forget how to resolve it :) The problem sometimes occurs with t
