Now that my Silverlight 2 book [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20] is going to be in stores very soon I’ve taken a look back at some of the books I wrote through the years. Here is a cover shot from an ADO book I coauthored eons ago. And no, the new book has a very norma

My book went to print today, so it will be available for purchase as soon as they finish waxing and polishing it. I plan on having materials to supplement the book including all code samples in C# and VB, a forum for questions and discussions, as well as additional material on www.silverlight-data.c

Earlier today I had the opportunity to present a session at Tampa Code Camp [http://www.tampacodecamp.com/] 2008 on ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight 2. Oh, and the code camps was a nice place to promote my new book too [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20] :-). The se

Moonlight 1.0 beta 1 has been released! You can read more about it here [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Dec-02-1.html]. We are getting close to being able to run Silverlight 2 applications on Linux. The roadmap for Moonlight [http://mono-project.com/MoonlightRoadmap] is is a good reference poi

This Saturday is the Tampa Code Camp 2008. The session lineup looks great so far, so be sure to stop by and spend some time learning, networking and just hanging out with a great group of people. [http://www.tampacodecamp.com/] I will be presenting a session on Astoria and Silverlight in the mor