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My good friend Wally McClure has written a short eBook on “Building iPhone and iPod touch Applications for the .NET/C# Developer with MonoTouch”. You can check it out here Given that iPhone is a very popular phone and that some of the development barrier for Microsofties like me is no .Net language support (Objective-C being the native ...

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I have been doing a lot of performance testing lately, and one of the worst things that can happen during a performance run, is when you don’t get any results. Performance testing is expensive, from a time and resources perspective, so getting results from a run is paramount. In my scenario, I have everything automated to kick off a performance ...

Can anyone reproduce this sequence of events? I added 6 lines of code to  of my data model view. I compile – no warnings, no errors, build successful. I run the app and the lines of code I added DO NOT EXECUTE! In fact, I am getting an error that my code is different than the last time I compiled.  Yet, I compiled when ...

While working on a silverlight application for my current engagement, we were seeing some weird memory issues and application crashes. I won't bore you with the initial investigation of the issue, but it turns out we need to delve deep into what was going on behind the scenes. A fellow colleague and friend, Miguel Madero, was also encountering ...

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 ...

Here’s a couple more links relevant to today’s launch of Silverlight 2: Tim Heuer on the launch Peter Laudati on debugging Silverlight 2 on the Mac

One of the most critical pieces to MVC is routing users to the proper controller. During the development process, you must keep in mind that routes will take users to the first pattern that matches. It’s not that difficult to create patterns that are too similar that users are routed to the incorrect place. Phil Haack, from the ASP.NET team, has ...

Bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about recently, in no particular order: The SideShow Team Blog announces the availability of a beta release of SideShow gadgets for Windows Media Center. View guide information, schedule recordings, control media playback, and more. Cool stuff! Some cool flat-look control skins for Silverlight ...