The day I read about what’s new in Silverlight 3 on Tim’s Blog, I got really amazed to know that what amazing features this new version has to offer Sigh… Among all the cool features, Silverlight 3 provides developers the ability to enable offline application execution. In other words, a developer can provide a few settings in Application Manifest which will make an application be able to save on user’s computer. So lets see how it works. Create a Silverlight 3 Application in Visual Studio and open...

Yes, I have been awarded Microsoft MVP Award once again for my contributions in C# community. It is second time that I'm getting this award. Last time, I got it for the same C#. I came to know about this last (4/1/2008) evening No! it was not an April Fool trust me it was as real as it was last year . I thank everyone who supported me in doing this, thank God to give me courage to have more time working for knowledge sharing and learning, my fiancee who always loved and appreciated what I've been...

In last article we talked about WPF as a next generation UX development technology from Microsoft. We also talked about declarative programming model it provides through the use of new XML based declarative language “XAML (a.k.a Zammel)”. In this article we’ll be digging deeper in XAML by understanding its usefulness in application development and its principles by writing snippets of code. If someone is not sure of what declarative programming model is, I suggest reading this or searching on web...