[https://www.johnpapa.net/data-services-with-silverlight-2/book-summary-for-data-services-with-silverlight-2-on-amazon-now/] I’ve left the “writing like mad” portion of the book schedule and now entered the “editing like a fiend” portion. Technical book writing is certainly a whirlwind tour of wri

Yesterday the announcement came out that Silverlight 2 would be released today and sure enough it is now available to be downloaded [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en] . Tim Heuer [http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/10

Today Scott Guthrie [http://weblogs.asp.net/Scottgu/] of Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 2 is coming tomorrow, Tuesday October 14th. I’ll be updating all of my book’s code samples to the Silverlight 2 RTW version. I expect very few issues other than a few styling changes I know of alr

I wrote my Data Points article for the September 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine using Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Since then the RC0 bits have been released, which broke my code for the article. I’ve had several requests for the updated code … and now that my book is winding down I have had some time to go b

Recently Erik Mork interviewed me for his Sparkling Client podcast [http://feeds.sparklingclient.com/~r/SparklingClient/~3/413973798/] and we chatted about accessing data services with Silverlight 2. We talked a lot about interacting with Silverlight 2 with REST and SOAP, isolated storage, creating