Including a Silverlight application in a user control was not as easy as I expected... In a recent project I created a new Silverlight application which was going to be included in an existing ASP.NET website.  The Silverlight application was going to be called from a User Control (myfil... [More]

Configuration and Deployment of Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services [More]

I attended the DevConnections conference last week in Las Vegas.  Upon my return I immediately wanted to take Silverlight 4 for a test drive.  So, I took my Silverlight 3 application and ran it through an upgrade process.  The upgrade process worked fine, but a couple of things... [More]

  The Spring 2010 DevConnections conference has come to a close and I greatly enjoyed being part of the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.  I thought I would share some of my highlights from the Silverlight portion of the event.  The Silverlight keyno... [More]

Summary of the keynote from Day 1 at DevConnections. [More]

I have found myself trying to bind records in my XAML code where sometimes I have an image for a record and sometimes I don't. I really want to display a default image if the record doesn't have an image. At other times I want to show an image based on the status of a record (e.g. Started,... [More]

So I was plugging right along in Silverlight using LINQ to asynchronously pull data from our database into my C# code.  Everything was going great until I attempted to pull data from one table and its related tables all in one query.  Here is what I found which resolved my data problem. ... [More]

Here is a tip for populating data into a Silverlight ComboBox control. [More]