I finally got around to putting the source code in the CodePlex repository. If you are interested in the source or just the binaries, feel free to check it out at http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk. There is a new version up there, too … v 1.0.0.2. Very minor changes. I’ll be adding a few featu

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

Seriously. This is a major problem with the iPhone 3G and its software. I had to endure 2 restores already in the first two weeks I had it. Luckily it backs everything up on iTunes so at least i did not lose anything other than my time. (Hmph ... my time ... each restore took well over an hour!) I

That bad place must have frozen over. Why? Because I bought a MacBook Pro. Never thought I would do it, but recent events made it actually very viable for me. First, intel based MacBooks make Vista an option. Second, iPhone development requires some sort of Mac OS, which I could have gotten a mini I

I just finished another chapter in my Data Services with Silverlight 2 book. And its another chapter without discussing converters. Specifically I mean classes that implement the IValueConverter interface and its Convert and ConvertBack methods.This is a fairly simple concept and it relates directly