I’ve been working hard on reviewing the technical reviews of my book [https://www.johnpapa.net/data-services-with-silverlight-2/book-summary-for-data-services-with-silverlight-2-on-amazon-now/] lately and I learned something new last night from my colleague and wise guru of the web services world R

I was writing a sample application tonight for my book (which is getting very close to being done!!!) that reads a RSS/ATOM feed, loads the results into the SyndicationFeed class and binds them to a Silverlight UI. Pretty straightforward really … but still very cool. So I hit the FeedBurner Uri for

If there is one thing that has been solidified in my mind based on my experiences over the past few months of writing my book, it is that cloud services are important to RIA’s future. Very important. Of the questions about Silverlight and RIA that I receive, the vast majority of them revolve aro

As part of the MVP program, a few months ago I was given a few extra MSDN Premium subscriptions to give away. I decided that I will give one of these away to a lucky person who comes to the FREEDay of Silverlight 2 that I am presenting at on October 24th [http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetai

I was writing an event handler for my book [https://www.johnpapa.net/data-services-with-silverlight-2/book-summary-for-data-services-with-silverlight-2-on-amazon-now/] that consumes a stream of JSON from a RESTful service. The handler is called when one of several asynchronous events is invoked.