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

I’m putting together some samples for an article for my Data Points column [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc159469.aspx] in MSDN Magazine on writing a line of business application with Silverlight communicating with WCF, and I ran into a few issues I did not expect. The one that really

I mentioned a few weeks ago that Corrina Barber [http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/default.aspx] is creating some elegant skins [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/keeping-focused-on-silverlight-and-data/] that I will be using for my samples in my upcoming book Silverlight 2 with Data Access [https://www

The folks at JetBrains have released Resharper 4.0 and [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/] made it available for purchase and download on their web site. [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/] The best new feature is the full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ. It has been a long time coming for those

By now you know that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 was released Friday evening. There have been some great posts by several people piling up over the weekend on the changes, new features, features still missing, and much more. Here is a quick rundown of some links you should really check out if you are using