Apple announced that they are relaxing their NDA on iPhone development for released software. This is great news for anyone who is interested in developing applications for the iPhone. The NDA frustrated many developers including myself. In fact I was working on some ideas for an application with so
Over at the Expression Blend and Design team blog they just announced that the Expression Blend 2 SP1 preview is released [http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/09/25/expression-blend-2-sp1-preview-released.aspx] . It allows you to create content for the release candidate for Silverlight 2.
I create a lot of demo applications, and with Silverlight 2 that means creating a lot of user controls. Sometimes I build entire applications and other times I build simple and focused user controls. Sometimes I have a dozen user controls that I use to demonstrate different topics at events. I crea
While working through some examples for my book that use the SyndicationFeed and SyndicationItem classes to manage RSS and ATOM data, I wrote this little LINQ to Objects query that mashes items from several different feeds together, and sorts them by date. Its pretty basic LINQ, but when combined wi
I’ve been working hard on reviewing the technical reviews of my book [https://www.johnpapa.net/data-services-with-silverlight-2/book-summary-for-data-services-with-silverlight-2-on-amazon-now/] lately and I learned something new last night from my colleague and wise guru of the web services world R
