After some minor delays, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is available from MSDN downloads today. It’s just under a gig download, but its only 1 file (I loathe those multi file downloads). Transferring fast for me for a first day release (1100KB/sec) … not sure why with all the competition I expe

[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/SilvesterisonmyHomePage_11B0F/image_2.png] Silvester [http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Silvester-A-Silverlight-Twitter-Widget.aspx] is a tool that I ran across on Emil Stoychev’s [http://www.silverlightshow.net/P

I was writing a chapter of my 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&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] last night about using SOAP, [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596

Earlier today I posted [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/source-is-on-codeplex-for-windows-live-writer-plugin-for-dotnetkicks/] the DotNetKicks plugin for Windows Live Writer [http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk] up on CodePlex including all of its source. Just now I created a CodePlex project for th

I finally got around to putting the source code in the CodePlex repository. If you are interested in the source or just the binaries, feel free to check it out at http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk. There is a new version up there, too … v 1.0.0.2. Very minor changes. I’ll be adding a few featu