I created a simple user control using the Popup control as a starting point. The end result is a nice little user control that can be used as a popup control to display a message. It has only 1 button on it (an OK button that closes the popup control). I’ll outline the basic steps of creating the

I am sitting down writing about WCF interaction with Silverlight, cross domain issues, and other fun communication stuff. As I am drumming through these examples for the book and for some articles and presentations (phew) I am running into minor issues that really cause me to think differently abo

I’m putting together some samples for an article for my Data Points column [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc159469.aspx] in MSDN Magazine on writing a line of business application with Silverlight communicating with WCF, and I ran into a few issues I did not expect. The one that really

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Corrina Barber [http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/default.aspx] is creating some elegant skins [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/keeping-focused-on-silverlight-and-data/] that I will be using for my samples in my upcoming book Silverlight 2 with Data Access [https://www

The folks at JetBrains have released Resharper 4.0 and [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/] made it available for purchase and download on their web site. [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/] The best new feature is the full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ. It has been a long time coming for those