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 created a simple user control using the Popup control as a starting point. The end result is a nice little user control that can be used as a popup control to display a message. It has only 1 button on it (an OK button that closes the popup control). I’ll outline the basic steps of creating the

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