John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
An alert reader contacted me to let me know that the code that my September 2008 MSDN Magazine article [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] Service Driven Apps with Silverlight 2 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] links to, is not my code. It actually point
[http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] Here is a small/basic but useful sample to create a progress bar in XAML that is updated when making a call to a RESTful web service using WebClient (in my case) f
Sometimes we are victims of our own cleverness. I could not figure out why my web service call was taking so long. After all, the service was local, the data was a simple query to the local database, and the response was tiny. So what’s the deal? Then I found this in my code in the DownloadStrin
I had projected the NY Giants roster a 1 week and a half ago [https://www.johnpapa.net/football/ny-giants-ndash-final-2008-roster-projection/] before Osi Umenyiora season ending injury. Obviously his spot is now up for grabs by someone else. Likely another DE. There have been some other developments
I had to ask Laurel from O’Reilly what type of bird was on the cover of my book [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] . They decide what goes on the cover and I have no idea how they decide, but since i
