Over the past month I've been writing articles for a new column in the .NET Insight and Web Design and Development Insight newsletters published by 1105 Media (a parent company for several media groups) that covers ASP.NET AJAX, XML Web Services/WCF, and Silverlight. The articles are designed to be very...

In my previous post I referred you to a tutorial how to make a simple line chart with Silverlight 1.1 . With this chart we were able to load data from an exported Excel XML Spreadsheet or from a XML serialized list of Point objects. I thought it would be great if the chart can consume data from a web...

Thanks to everyone that attended the Visual Studio 2008 course yesterday. It was a lot of fun talking about all of the new stuff available in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 and hearing the different projects people are working on. As promised, here's the lab code from the course: http://www.xmlforasp.net/LabFiles...

This is a video demonstrating the offline usage of the Tech Head Brothers authoring tool . The tool is using now WCF in place of WSE3 and works great with ASP.NET membership and role. The video is hosted on Silverlight Streaming and was made using Camtasia Studio from TechSmith and Microsoft Media Encoder...

Today I had to migrate a Silverlight Alpha 1.1 project to Silverlight 2 beta 1 for a client. As we had to expect there are a lot of changes ! First thing to notice: after installing Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 you won't be able to open your Silverlight 1.1 projects in VS2008, you have...

I've been spending my nights working on a new book covering Silverlight 2 and have been focusing on the new networking features that are available in the System.Net and related namespaces.  Silverlight's great at animating objects, performing transformations and collecting data with all of the new...

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 AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that...

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 it I think. They'd keep you entertained the whole...

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ...

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road ( map ) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great talks scheduled covering everything from iPhone...