My article that I alluded to yesterday [https://www.johnpapa.net/silverlight/silverlight-chord-finder/] on building a guitar chord calculator with Silverlight [http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/using-silverlight-to-build-a-guitar-chord-calculator/] was just published by Simple-Talk.
Today, Shawn Wildermuth shared what he uses to develop Silverlight applications [http://wildermuth.com/2009/03/12/What_I_Use_for_Silverlight_Development]. Its a good list of mostly essential tools if you are going to work with Silverlight. While you do not need Blend, for example, you are severely h
I’ve been working on an article that features several aspects of building a Silverlight application. The article demonstrates data binding, some visual effects, effective resource use, playing audio files, creating states with the Visual State Manager and the CoolMenu from the SilverlightContrib [ht
I’ve had my Kindle 2 for a week and my early impressions are favorable, though I do have some dislikes already too. Overall its a great machine that handles books very well, is easy on the eyes and very easy to hold onto (form factor is sweet). I’ll be posting a review on the Kindle 2 in the near fu
Mike Flasko announced over the weekend on The Project Astoria Team Blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/03/01/announcing-ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp1.aspx] that the timeframe for the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 to be released “should be in the coming months”. So what are they
