Today, Shawn Wildermuth shared what he uses to develop Silverlight applications [http://wildermuth.com/2009/03/12/What_I_Use_for_Silverlight_Development]. Its a good list of mostly essential tools if you are going to work with Silverlight. While you do not need Blend, for example, you are severely h

My article that I alluded to yesterday [https://www.johnpapa.net/silverlight/silverlight-chord-finder/] on building a guitar chord calculator with Silverlight [http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/using-silverlight-to-build-a-guitar-chord-calculator/] was just published by Simple-Talk.

I’ve been working on an article that features several aspects of building a Silverlight application. The article demonstrates data binding, some visual effects, effective resource use, playing audio files, creating states with the Visual State Manager and the CoolMenu from the SilverlightContrib [ht

Mike Flasko announced over the weekend on The Project Astoria Team Blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/03/01/announcing-ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp1.aspx] that the timeframe for the ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 to be released “should be in the coming months”. So what are they

My first article for CoDe Magazine is now online [http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0903051].  The article is a short one that explains how to use Live Search from a Silverlight application using HTTP communication. I modified an excerpt from my book Data-Driven Services with Silverl