A lot has come out over the past few months and keeping up with the technology has been a whirlwind experience for everyone. Yesterday Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 was released [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1-is-on-msdn-today/] which began the first official live versi

After some minor delays, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is available from MSDN downloads today. It’s just under a gig download, but its only 1 file (I loathe those multi file downloads). Transferring fast for me for a first day release (1100KB/sec) … not sure why with all the competition I expe

I was writing a chapter of my book Data Services with Silverlight 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] last night about using SOAP, [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596

[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/SilvesterisonmyHomePage_11B0F/image_2.png] Silvester [http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Silvester-A-Silverlight-Twitter-Widget.aspx] is a tool that I ran across on Emil Stoychev’s [http://www.silverlightshow.net/P

I have presented a lot of demonstrations using the EFNorthwind database over the past year or so. This is the database that is used in the Entity Framework samples. Its simply just a minor variation of the infamous Northwind database. I have had a lot of requests in that time to send a link to the E