I am using Instant VB from Tangible Software Solutions [http://tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/] to convert all of my code samples from C# to VB in my upcoming book Data Services with Silverlight 2. [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books

2009 was the year I was finally going to make it to London for DevWeek [http://www.devweek.com/]. I have been to conferences in Europe but oddly never to London. It seems each time it came up there was something I already had scheduled. So this year looked promising. I submitted a ton of topics and

I run a lot of virtual machines for a living. Sometimes it seems like I work for them and not the other way around. Today I converted a VPC image to a VMWare image using VMWare’s Converter program. Why? Because the image was really slow in VPC  and I have had better experiences with VMWare Works

A lot has come out over the past few months and keeping up with the technology has been a whirlwind experience for everyone. Yesterday Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 was released [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1-is-on-msdn-today/] which began the first official live versi

This Summer and Fall with the help of INETA [http://ineta.org] I am touring around a bit to several conferences  and user groups. I have a few events still in the works that I will announce a [https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/Silverlight2atNaples.NetUs