John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV [http://jpapa.me/sltv43] how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstra

Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on Silverlight TV to announce the new Silverlight themes [http://jpapa.me/sltv42] that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The

On this episode of Silverlight TV [http://jpapa.me/sltv41], Dinesh Kulkarni shares his top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications. He walks through some key decision points while creating domain services (server side) for a Silverlight and RIA Services application

I just received my confirmation that I will be presenting at the PnP Symposium being held in Redmond from Oct 18-22, 2010. Here is a ton of information that the PnP team has released about the event as written by Don Smith … The Patterns and Practices (PnP) Symposium is shaping into a killer even

[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/InstallingWindowsPhone7Beta_97C4/image_8.png] I ran into some issues installing the Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta this weekend on my PC. I had been cleaning up my hard drive of old installs so I likely had a bi