This week on Silverlight TV #51, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to some of the most common issues customers encounter when deploying WCF RIA Services [http://jpapa.me/sltv51]. Saurabh runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to ide

PDC 10 was last week and we have a ton of great sessions you can check out over on the PDC site [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/]. And be sure to check out and vote for my session Kung Fu Silverlight: Tips and Architectural Patterns and Practices [http://jpapa.me/pdc10kungfu]. Along with the flurry of

Today you can watch my PDC 2010 session titled “Kung Fu Silverlight: Tips and Architectural Patterns and Practices”. [http://jpapa.me/pdc10kungfu] Here is the summary of the session: > Learn about the rewards of using RIA Services together with development patterns, such as the Service Provider

John sits down with Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft, to discuss the state of Silverlight [http://jpapa.me/sltv50]. Scott discusses the impact of Silverlight in applications including Windows Phone 7, the history of releases, and what his favorite features are with Silverlight and Windows Ph

I think it is great that so many developers are putting the effort into creating apps for Windows Phone 7 (especially with Silverlight!). So today I sent a call out on Twitter to tell me about Windows Phone 7 apps people had written and put in the marketplace. Here are my quick thoughts on the first