I just finished another chapter of Data Services with Silverlight 2 [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20]. It’s a great feeling when this happens. There is always a bit of a slight pause afterwards though as I begin to realize how much more I have to write. For example

This tip comes right from some of the examples I am writing for my book Data Services with Silverlight 2. I was writing a LINQ query definition  for LINQ to XML that parses through a response from an Amazon RESTful web service when I realized I cannot be sure if a book will have a price stored in th

The pieces of my Fall schedule has been falling into place recently. Here is a list of all of the events I’ll be at for the next few months. The topics vary from Entity Framework, to MVP patterns, Enterprise Library, Database Transactions, REST, and of course Silverlight 2. If you find yourself in a

I’ve seen a lot of demo’s and example on Silverlight 2 flying around. One are that seems to get a lot of difference of opinion is where to declare events. You can either define the event handler in XAML declaratively, or you can add the handler in the .NET code. What’s the best way? Proponents of

I’ve been working on the basis for a shopping cart example using the Amazon.com RESTful API [http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEcommerceService/2005-10-05/index.html] and Silverlight 2 for my book [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20]. Their API is pretty extensive a