I just finished writing the first draft of a sample I am including in my upcoming book tentatively titled Data Access with Silverlight 2 by O'Reilly . Without giving too much away yet since the final details of the contract are not set in stone, the application example consumes a REST service, manipulates...

I'll be speaking at DevConnections in Las Vegas this Fall along with others Julie Lerman and Paul Litwin . The 3 topics I will be presenting are: Data Access with Silverlight 2 Integrating Enterprise Library's Data Access Application Block with your Project Practical Strategies with the Entity...

Here is the mock up of my upcoming Silverlight 2 book that I mentioned earlier today . The title is still up in the air, as is the cover art, and ... let's face it ...  just about everything except for the release date of Nov/Dec 2008.  I just wanted to see what it might look like so I...

It is 3 am and I am learning the subtle balance of typing with one hand while swaying and comforting  my new born child in the other. She was up late crying ... a lot. She had colic. So we took turns staying up with her to comfort her. The problem was I also had a book to finish. It has been years...

Tonight I will be joining the Sarasota SQL Server User group and the Sarasota .NET User group at their combined May 2008 meeting. I will be presenting the Entity Framework and LINQ using the new bits that came out 2 days ago on Monday including the new features that it brings. I always have a good time...

Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded . This includes several updates, includes support for SQL Server 2008, and has a few new products including the Entity Framework, LINQ to Entities and ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria). ScottGu...

I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a LINQ to SQL project that ties into a multi tier model...

Being a huge Yankees fan and living out of market like I do I recently purchased the MLB.com TV package so I can watch the games on the Internet. They sued to use Real video streaming however I cranked up the video tonight and noticed some changes form last year. After a quick check, yep, its using Silverlight...

Microsoft released an update to the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 Beta 1. I'm excited to try this out as I am working on a Silverlight application that uses the "deep zoom" technology and some of the new features/improvements should help it go smoother. Yesterday I posted that Expression...

  Expression Studio 2 is out of beta and has been released. I've been using the betas and they have been pretty good, but its nice to finally get my hands on the full release as v2 is much better than v1. Expression Studio contains the following products: Expression Web 2 Expression Blend 2...