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New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
Microsoft’s been hard at work on a new distributed data framework now called WCF RIA Services.  I recently finished up a new article for Dr. Dobbs and Information Week that provides an overview of WCF RIA Services including the following topics: ... More

Need a Little Help from My Developer Friends Out There!
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who voted! It looks like I'll be presenting on Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight Applications at MIX10. MIX10 is right around the corner which should be a lot of fun especially if you’re interested in Web and ... More

Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications
The subject of Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) containers has received a lot of attention over the last few years.  Building applications that are loosely coupled has become more and more popular (and for good reason) especially ... More

Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications
With the increasing popularity of Silverlight as an application development framework the discussion of patterns has grown louder and louder. Fortunately the majority of developers building Silverlight applications have agreed on a pattern that fits ... More

DevConnections Conference Code and Slides
I’m in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections conference and wanted to get the slides and code posted for the talks as I give them.  This time around I’m talking about Silverlight (including a full-day workshop), the new Microsoft Ajax Library ... More



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