Looks like I’ll be heading up to Gainesville, Florida on January 15th 2009 for the GatorMUG .NET [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20] Users Group [http://gatormug.org/]. Gotta love them Florida Gators! This will be the first presentation I give on Silverlight after my boo

I can’t believe I missed this before, but there is a toggle button (F4) in Blend that simply make the sidebar windows collapse or expand. This is very cool when you are doing a presentation and the screen resolution is so tiny that the audience cannot see what you are doing with the other windows in

Last night I presented the first of 3 consecutive Silverlight presentations at Florida user groups. Last night’s was at the Naples .NET User Group [http://www.naplesdot.net/]. Between the group and the items I brought from INETA and O’Reilly we had a ton of swag at the group. I think everyone walked

I just uploaded my code demonstrations for my 3 presentations at DevConnections in Las Vegas last week. You can download all 3 sets of demos from this link [https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/downloads/Connections%202008%20Demos.rar] . Inside the compressed file are the code samples f

A free teaser chapter is now available [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091/chapter/index.html] for my book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091/]. The free chapter, Chapter 8 – Consuming Amazon’s RESTful Services with Silverlight 2, is in the PDF [h