John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
One of the changes in Silverlight 2 RC0 is that reorganization and in some cases renaming of assemblies for the controls. Making this post short and sweet … * System.Windows.Controls assembly contains: * Calendar * DatePicker * TabControl * GridSplitter * System.Windows.Contro
Apple announced that they are relaxing their NDA on iPhone development for released software. This is great news for anyone who is interested in developing applications for the iPhone. The NDA frustrated many developers including myself. In fact I was working on some ideas for an application with so
Over at the Expression Blend and Design team blog they just announced that the Expression Blend 2 SP1 preview is released [http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/09/25/expression-blend-2-sp1-preview-released.aspx] . It allows you to create content for the release candidate for Silverlight 2.
I create a lot of demo applications, and with Silverlight 2 that means creating a lot of user controls. Sometimes I build entire applications and other times I build simple and focused user controls. Sometimes I have a dozen user controls that I use to demonstrate different topics at events. I crea
While working through some examples for my book that use the SyndicationFeed and SyndicationItem classes to manage RSS and ATOM data, I wrote this little LINQ to Objects query that mashes items from several different feeds together, and sorts them by date. Its pretty basic LINQ, but when combined wi
