The update from the Web Development Team is that, this behaviour is only related to Click Once Deployment. However, when you create a website/project, the runtime targeted is 3.5 SP1 if it is prese…

When it comes to programming time critical applications in Windows, life of a programmer can become much more easier if he/she knows a few tricks One has to understand that setting only the thread'…

Chris Cavanagh with YouCube, Bart Czernicki with a Multithreading control, Doug Blackmore with a SL2 Combobox, SilverlightShow with a 'glow' effect, SilverlightGirl on making a text appear and disa…

This functionality was added to TFS 2008, and you need the Power Tools to do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx;/1220420126710/) DestroyWITD Command Use the destroywitd comma…

Erik Mork interviews Bill Reiss, Terence Tsang with Flash & Sl 3D Text Space, Shawn Wildermuth's ADO.NET & SL2 article in MSDN Magazine, Silverlight SDK reports on tutorials on their site, Christ H…

There are always a lot of posts about various add-ins, code snippets, macros, and other utilities that are designed to make you, the developer, more productive within Visual Studio as an editing en…

Anna Wrochna on justifying/aligning text, and Ronnie Saurenmann on WCF without a web server.

Why it is time to retire the old cast operator in C#: MyType t= (MyType)o

Michael Washington with Desktop Instances in SilverlightDesktop, and Mike Snow scaling his entire app to the browser.

Generics are a great way of getting code reuse. However there are a few things that can make them difficult to work with. Generics are similar to C++ Templates in the way you define them, but are v…

This one is going to be mid-rant because I can't even find anyone else that has hinted at having this problem...arggghhh!

Scott Barnes on Submitting SL Bugs, Shawn Wildermuth on SL Firestarter in NYC, Jason Cooke Templatinging the Calendar, Jonas Follesø on SL2 apps using WCF, and Mike Snow on detecting alt-~shit~shif…

Sometime in the past, a friend asked me how to update a control to show status while his code is doing a loop of stuff. Essentially changing the text of a label (or sophisticatedly we can say a tex…

Chris Cavenagh with source for his WPF Photo Print, Rob Houweling on Authentication in SL, Anna Wrochna with a SL 'Tree', Cameron Albert with Farseer Physics Geom Visual Helper Method, Mike Ormond'…

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This week, I'm chatting with Rachel Reese, ASP Insider. We've never actually met in person, but it seems like we know all the same people. Funny how that works. Rachel and I emailed back and forth …

Page Brooks with CoolMenu and Custom Collections for Controls, Bill Reiss on Calling WCF on local server, Mike Snow on Fast Sprite Animation, Tom Fischer on getting a color or brush from a string, …

I thought I would post about this because I find myself putting notes about this in comments and there. One of our team members bought the rabies plush doll from ThinkGeek a little over a month ago…

Alex Knight on custom fonts, Adam Kinney with WPF demos, Shawn Wildermuth on Container Editing in Blend, Tim Heuer with Troubleshooting Webcast, Chris Koenig reports Silverlight on Skyfire Richard …

Martin Mihaylov on Resizing the SL Object, Dan Wahlin on the Grid and a Flyout StackPanel, Robby Ingebretsen with a Particle Generator, Mike Snow on Terrain Part 2, Custom Mouse Cursor, and Transpa…