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 tip comes right from some of the examples I am writing for my book Data Services with Silverlight 2. I was writing a LINQ query definition for LINQ to XML that parses through a response from an Amazon RESTful web service when I realized I cannot be sure if a book will have a price stored in th
Now that my book writing is slowing down as my Silverlight 2 book is getting ready to go to print, I've been preparing for a series of Silverlight 2 events. I had a great turnout for my Silverlight 2 and data services session yesterday in VSLive NY. I wish I had more time to go through all of th
I'm here in NYC, a city I have visited several times. This time I am here to present 2 topics on Silverlight and on ASP.NET this Monday and Tuesday. There are some great talks this week at VSLive by guys like Sahil Mallik and Brian Peek. If you have not checked out any of Peek's stuff, you r
The pieces of my Fall schedule has been falling into place recently. Here is a list of all of the events I’ll be at for the next few months. The topics vary from Entity Framework, to MVP patterns, Enterprise Library, Database Transactions, REST, and of course Silverlight 2. If you find yourself in a
I’ve seen a lot of demo’s and example on Silverlight 2 flying around. One are that seems to get a lot of difference of opinion is where to declare events. You can either define the event handler in XAML declaratively, or you can add the handler in the .NET code. What’s the best way? Proponents of
