Time to do some actual work. As the title suggests, I will be creating a simple UI application for windows mobile 6 professional device using visual…

In this Issue: Chris Anderson, Jesse Liberty, Al Pascual, and dzineblog. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth is doing an MSDN GeekSpeak on Silverlight 3: MSDN…

In this pre-tax-day-issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Martin Mihaylov, and Al Pascual. Shoutout: Jeff Weber has a up on his site.

In this Issue: Ashish Shetty, Nikhil Kothari, Chris Cavanagh, Rishi, Nigel Sampson, Tim Heuer, Ruurd Boeke, Alex Golesh, Lee, and Pete Blois.

Definition Aggregator Provider Pattern is an extension of Provider Pattern, which enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of the class having…

In this Issue: Mark Monster, SilverLemma, Al Pascual, Silverlight SDK(2), Tim Heuer, Expression Blend and Design, Silverlight Web Services Team, Corey…

My blog has moved. Please go to http://www.brianloesgen.com

A friend of mine was looking for a tool today to extract a list of names and email addresses from a folder in outlook. I know that Outlook has a…

We have been busy organizing a number of community events. I would like to share some events Regina.NET has been working on and other community events.…

I was doing a data conversion that involved importing data from a flat-file source into SQL Server. I fired up SSIS and created the Data Flow tasks that…

In this Issue: Chris Cavanagh, Brownie Points, Silverlight Web Services Team, Gavin Wignall, Maurice de Beijer, Tim Heuer, Jeff Prosise, Shawn Wildermuth,…

In this Issue: Damon Carr, Rishi(2), Mike Taulty, Jeff Prosise, Laurent Bugnion, Ruurd Boeke, and Walt Ritscher.

I will explain how to develop a simple application in ASP.NET using a three-tier architecture. - The presentation tier - The business tier - The data tier

At MIX 2009, the Expression Blend team cam up with a new concept called Behaviors. In fact, the only thing new is the way that the Behaviors are packed.…

Here's an extension method that packs a C# BitArray to a byte array: public static byte\[\] ToByteArray(this BitArray bits) { int numBytes = bits.Count /…

In this Issue: Mark Monster(2), Michael Wolf, Tm Heuer, Ning Zhang, and Somasegar. Shoutout: Bill Reiss posted about yet another game contest, this one by…

While chatting with Tim Ewald last week at Devweek we got onto the topic of “ways to improve the MSDN experience” (Tim sits in that team). Part of that…

The Bubble Chart is part of the Silverlight toolkit and is available for Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 at. This chart uses the size of the “bubbles” to…

is my project on Codeplex. I have just released version 4.1 which generates reports combining the schema information and user documentation into HTML…

NetCmdlet’s get-time cmdlet uses the Internet TIME protocol to query Internet time server’s for the current time. It can also be used to sync the time on…