Programmatically uninstalling Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Application
Every once in a while there comes a need to provide a mechanism to uninstall your application programmatically. For Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications , there seemed to be no way to […]
Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack
Many eyes will be focused on Barcelona on February 29, 2012 when Microsoft releases the Windows 8 Consumer Preview or what many are calling the beta version of the new […]
Video: Getting Started with Jounce MVVM and MEF for Silverlight 5
I created a quick video to help you get started with using Jounce. The video starts with a blank slate, steps through installation of Jounce and the creation of a […]
Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Recommendations
The other day I was asked which extensions for Visual Studio I use so in an effort to save keystrokes, I thought I’d list them here so I can refer […]
Setting the Power Plan with PowerShell
Edit: Make sure to read the comments from Shay Levy and Richard on clarifying my mistaken assumptions about how things work in PowerShell. Thanks to Richard & Shay for the […]
CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it?
In 1983 author James Martin published a book called Managing the Data-Base Environment. It’s interesting the term database is hyphenated in the title; it hadn’t quite settled down as a […]
Windows 8 Slate Review
About a week ago, I purchased a Samsung Series 7 Slate PC to learn more about the Windows 8 operating system and to test applications I will be developing primarily […]
NuGet Nugget: File-System Based Package Stores
A recent network “hiccup” posed a bit of a challenge to a demo that was built around showing how the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (WATWP) NuGet packages make […]
Silverlight 5 Released: Myth vs. Fact
It is very exciting to see the release of Silverlight 5 today, despite all of the rumors flying around the Web. Read the original release announcement from the Silverlight Team […]