Just a quick code hit I’ve been meaning to blog about … I’ve seen a lot of examples that implement the  PropertyChanged event handler of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Most of them are demonstrating how to deal with data binding (including my examples) and most of them simply repeat the c

Here’s a tiny little nugget from my upcoming book. There are always concepts that are just natively drilled into me yet they don’t flow smoothly when I try to explain them. For example take the Silverlight 2 binding modes. You have OneTime, OneWay and TwoWay as options. OneWay is the default and man

I am notorious for letting my thoughts get ahead of my typing. I’ll start typing something and the words will come flying out. usually I’ll start typing the next word before I finish with the previous word. That usually results in sentences like this: Al lo fth ecoo lkid sus eSilverlight. Tran

TechSmith [http://www.techsmith.com/] makes 2 of my favorite applications: SnagIt [http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp] and Camtasia [http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp]. SnagIt 9 was just released this week and it has some great new features. You can check out the full story on the new

I am sitting down writing about WCF interaction with Silverlight, cross domain issues, and other fun communication stuff. As I am drumming through these examples for the book and for some articles and presentations (phew) I am running into minor issues that really cause me to think differently abo