Today my latest article on Silverlight 2 was posted on Simple-Talk [http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/data-and-silverlight-2-data-binding/] . The article explains the foundations of data binding in Silverlight 2 including the importance of Dependency Properties and  the DataContext

I had a good response to my DotNetKicks plugin for Windows Live Writer [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/using-the-dotnetkicks-plugin-for-live-writer/]. One of the requests that came along was to write a Live Writer plugin for DZone [http://dzone.com], too. DZone is another one of the aggregating sites

There is a great list of all of the new features in Silverlight 2 beta 2 at this link [http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/06/04/what-s-new-in-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx] . The release is supposed to be out this week, which would be today or tomorrow, one would hope. A few highlights

Christian Schormann posted a video [http://electricbeach.org/?p=98] that demonstrates the new Visual State Manager (aka VSM). The quick and dirty is that the VSM allows you to customize the states of a control. This means you can change the visual presentation of a control for its mouseover state, p

I mentioned last night [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/windows-live-writer-plugin-for-dotnetkicks-alpha/] that I wrote a DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer [http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk] using the new June 2008 Technical Preview release that came out this week. My first pass at the pl