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For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Here’s what happened: David Solivan – David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was to show the various options we have and to explain when one option may be better than another by stepping through the design process. There’s a URL ...

I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer Physics Engine for ...

Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional. It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on the client – before it was not very easy to encrypt a string without any plug-in ...

I’m in Las Vegas this week at the DevConnections conference (I know….rough…but someone had to do it).  I just wrapped up the Silverlight 2 development workshop and promised that I’d post the code samples (see the link below).  Thanks to everyone that attended….I had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people building (or starting to ...

Controls are where it’s at these days in the programming world.  By using them you maximize re-use, enhance productivity and avoid building custom functionality.  Plus, when you need a control to do something different you can always extend it rather than writing everything from scratch. If you’ve used ASP.NET AJAX then you’ve likely ...

Silverlight 2 provides a nice set of controls that can be used to capture and display data. While control properties can be set directly on the control in a XAML file using attributes, some properties will be duplicated between controls causing maintenance headaches. The following example demonstrates this problem: <Button ...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application from Scratch: Brad Abrams has a nice end to end application tutorial that ...

I’ve had the opportunity to speak at a lot of cool places around the world but you can’t beat speaking in Hawaii!  I’ve looked forward to this trip for quite awhile since I get to talk about a brand new technology in a great location. For those able to attend (or those who are interested but can’t attend), you’ll find the slides ...

Silverlight 2 was released today!  Read more about the big announcement at Scott Guthrie’s blog.  If you’ve been waiting to get into Silverlight 2 until it was officially released check out the following articles.  Spike Xavier and I also put together a little song about Silverlight 2 awhile back which can be heard here.

If you’ve been working with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 you’ll be happy to know that the release candidate was just released.  You can get it at: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx Scott Guthrie has a detailed post on the new features but here’s a high-level synopsis of what’s new since Beta 2: PasswordBox control added ...