I’ll be heading to Orlando Florida on November 20th as part of my Fall/Winter INETA [http://www.ineta.org] event tour. I will be presenting  to the Orlando .NET User group (aka ONETUG) [http://www.onetug.com]about Silverlight 2. This makes 3 days in a row I’ll be driving around Florida and presenti

I just firmed up another stop on my Fall/Winter INETA [http://www.ineta.org] event tour … I will be presenting  to the Central Florida .NET User Group in Lakeland Florida [http://www.cfdotnet.org/] on November 19, 2008. I’ll be in Naples Florida the day before, then I make the drive up to Lakeland

An alert reader contacted me to let me know that the code that my September 2008 MSDN Magazine article [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] Service Driven Apps with Silverlight 2 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] links to, is not my code. It actually point

[http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] My Data Services with Silverlight 2 book is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Since it was posted I realized that now is a good time to update my book summary

[http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218389224&sr=8-1] Here is a small/basic but useful sample to create a progress bar in XAML that is updated when making a call to a RESTful web service using WebClient (in my case) f