Each week for the next 4 weeks I will be giving away 1 free ticket to the 3rd annual Silverlight MIXer party held in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during MIX11. This Silverlight MIXer is an invite only party that I host each year where Silverlight and Windows Phone influencers gather to talk, eat, d

Mike Taulty and I are on the road again at MIX11 next month for a reprisal of our Silverlight bootcamp. Last year we had a full house and discussed Silverlight 3 … hard to believe that was a year ago!This year we’ll be talking about Silverlight 4 and 5. We’ve decided to shake things up a bit this ye

Entity Framework 4.1 RC is out and the team has a great post on what’s included [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/03/15/ef-4-1-release-candidate-available.aspx] and how to get the bits. I am working on a project using them so I upgraded my code and found a few things that I thought I’d p

Tonight I rediscovered how much I love the Visual Studio Productivity Tools [http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef/] . Why? Because I rebuilt a PC last week and I had yet to install them. Sure, I installed VS, SP 1 and Resharper … all of which are essenti

It’s been a long while since I posted a recipe, but I really love this one and its so simple and common that you can’t make it wrong We love pasta, cheese, marinara sauce and spices. We also love Chicken parmesan, but we don’t eat it as often due to the negatives of frying the chicken and the fatt