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Carl, Richard and Myself on .NET Rocks Talking About Silverlight 2 by dwahlin

I recently had the chance to sit down with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell at DevConnections Orlando to record a session of .NET Rocks about Silverlight 2 .  They're both a lot of fun to talk with and could probably talk all day without realizing...
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Working with the GridView and the System.Data.Linq.Binary Type by dwahlin

I'm working with a database table that has a RowVersion field defined as a TimeStamp data type.  The TimeStamp field is there to add concurrency into the application to ensure a row hasn't changed while a user is trying to update or delete it. ...
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My Latest Silverlight Articles by dwahlin

Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts. You can read those article here . I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0. Each week...
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Service Pack 1 Beta Released for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 by dwahlin

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET...
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Using LINQ to Perform "WHERE IN (Value1,Value2)" Queries by dwahlin

I recently needed to select a few products from a database where the product ID matched up with a list of IDs.  That's easy to do with a normal SQL statement since you can use the "WHERE IN (Value1,Value2)" clause to find what you need...
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Update To Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight Released by dwahlin

Microsoft just released an update to the Deep Zoom Composer that works with Silverlight 2 Beta 1. If you're unfamiliar with the "deep zoom" technology it provides a way to zoom in and out of images. When I say "zoom in" I mean zoom way in. Check out the...
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Silverlight - The Song by dwahlin

About 6 months ago my good friend Spike Xavier and I got together on a Saturday to work on a new song since we like to get away from programming now and then and mess around with music for fun. It'd been awhile since we released our last song titled No...
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Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks by dwahlin

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET...
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Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets: Part II by dwahlin

In Part 1 of this two part series on socket support in Silverlight 2 I discussed how a server could be created to listen for clients using classes in the System.Net.Sockets namespace. In that post the TcpListener class was used to listen for client connections...
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Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets: Part I by dwahlin

Silverlight 2 has built-in support for sockets which creates some interesting possibilities.  If you've ever worked on a client-side application that needed to receive up-to-date data then you're probably used to solving the problem by polling. ...
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