Silverlight 5 RC – Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
One enhancement that quietly slipped into the Silverlight 5 RC is the inclusion of Tasks. This is not the full-blown Task Parallel Library (TPL) to my knowledge (as it lacks […]
Silverlight 5 RC Released – Using PInvoke
It’s exciting to see the progress of Silverlight 5 toward the final release that has been slated towards the end of the year. Today, the Silverlight Team announced the release […]
Windows 7 Hang with FireWire 800 Drive Fix
Recently I bought a smoking fast external SSD enclosures from Other World Computing. My plan was to use the FireWire 800 connection to the drive so I can get the […]
Tablet Development with Microsoft Silverlight
On August 6th I gave a presentation for ReMix South about tablet development with Silverlight. It was a fun presentation to give. I presented using a Motion Computing CL900 to […]
Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example
I’m not a big fan of attribute-based validation because I find there are often complex requirements that involve asynchronous operations that often break the attribute model. I prefer more fluent […]
Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic
Sometimes I love how a little reflection can work magic. In this case I was building what I’ll call a “non-intrusive” validation system. The project contains entities that are generated […]
Where’s my DataContext?
Every now and then a question comes up concerning a missing DataContext. The questions usually center around a ViewModel being set to a View properly, but then developer can not […]
How to Scale a jQuery Mobile Site for iOS
I was recently working on a jQuery Mobile application and everything looked great on my 21” touch monitor on several browsers, but when I deployed to the server and then […]
Creating Custom Ringtones in Windows Phone Mango
Now that I have upgraded my phone to the Windows Phone 7.1 Developers’ Preview, one of the features I’ve been anxious to try out is Custom Ringtones – the default […]