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 Introduction The conference sessions are starting to appear on the…

I am like everyone else when it comes to Preview OS Software. I don’t want it on installed on my primary machine and I don’t want to lug around another…

I usually do a bullet points from major conference events like this one from. The purpose of this post is to get you up to speed quickly with news and…

Introduction Have you ever wondered how to update the Application Tile in your Windows Phone 7 Mango application? Me too. But before we dig in, let’s look…

image Introduction One of the features that I’m surprised to see hardly no one talk about is “Communication Between Local Silverlight-Based Applications”.…

image The Kinect is awesome. From day one, I’ve said this thing has got potential. After playing with several open-source Kinect projects, I am please to…

 When Double Clicking on a.XAML File go directly to the…

Massive Silverlight Giveaway! DevExpress, Syncfusion, Crypto Obfuscator and SL Spy! Oh my, have we grown! Maybe I should change the name to Multiple…

image I had a reader email me the following question: > “How do you create Speech Bubbles in Silverlight/WPF without adding any extra.dlls?

| | | I wanted to create a series of blog post that gets right to the point and is aimed specifically at Silverlight Developers. The most important things…

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2, Microsoft included the Coded UI Test framework. With this release it is possible to create…


So Silverlight Firestarter is over and your sitting on your couch thinking… what now? Well its time to ![image](/images/mbcrump/pimp-my-silverlight-firesta…

This is the last post in a series of articles detailing the process of building/deploying a WP7 application. I’ve walked you through setting up the tools,…

If you build Silverlight Applications, chances are you have seen this screen before. I’m talking about the default “To view this content, please install…”…

In the past I’ve used things like ANTS performance profiler to identify performance bottlenecks and to optimize my applications performance. It was always…

I was lucky enough to be nominated to receive the Windows Phone 7 from a representative at Microsoft. The phone that was given to me was the LG GW910.…

We have come a long way since IE 1… 

 Recruit Officer: Have you given any thought to your future, son?…

OK, Lots of confusion around this pattern. I am also trying to wrap my head around this pattern and wanted to present what I have learned so far as well…

In this tutorial, we are going to configure the application/user settings in a WPF application the easy way. Most example that I’ve seen on the net…

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This tutorial will show you how to build a plug-in for Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool that Microsoft provides for free. It…