I'm here in NYC, a city I have visited several times. This time I am here to present 2 topics on Silverlight and on ASP.NET this Monday and Tuesday. There are some great talks this week at VSLive by guys like Sahil Mallik and Brian Peek. If you have not checked out any of Peek's stuff, you r

The folks at JetBrains [http://www.jetbrains.com/index.html] released a new version of ReSharper today. You can download the new version, ReSharper 4.1, from here [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/index.html]. They state that they improved ReSharper to work better with Visual Studio 2008

Sometimes we are victims of our own cleverness. I could not figure out why my web service call was taking so long. After all, the service was local, the data was a simple query to the local database, and the response was tiny. So what’s the deal? Then I found this in my code in the DownloadStrin

[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] The latest edition of my Data Points column in MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260.aspx] is now online and has my Service Driven Apps with WCF and Silverlight 2 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794260

Someone asked me recently a quick question on how to set up a RESTful service to return JSON instead of XML. Th person already had a RESTful service they had created in WCF that returned XML, so most of the hard work was done already. This was a quick answer (nice to have a quick question/answer onc