October 12th is the big day. That’s the date for the Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch events and the MSDN Simulcast event you can sign up for, that'll be a full day of training on writing Windows Phone apps. [https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032458870&Even

This weekend I posted 5 simple ways to reduce your code using Resharper (tips 1-5) [https://www.johnpapa.net/silverlight/5-easy-tips-to-reduce-and-refactor-your-code-with-resharper/] . I decided to follow that up with another set of 5 quick and easy tips, so here they go. Hopefully these tips will s

I’ve talked a lot about Resharper [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/] features such as the Find Usages, live templates, and the instant code analysis. But I have not talked about some of the features that are not as prominent but I find especially helpful. So here are a few very simple tips for ho

Today is one of my favorite days of the year. It’s one of the 4 days when we welcome the newly awarded (and some re-awarded) Silverlight MVPs. This quarter we added 8 new people to the Silverlight MVP program from all over the world. I’ve also added all of these new MVPs to my Silverlight MVP Twitte

This week on Silverlight TV [http://jpapa.me/sltv47]: Performance is always a critical topic in development, especially when it comes to a mobile device. Jeff Wilcox shares several performance tips and dives deep into how he made the ProgressBar perform even better. Jeff retemplated the ProgressBar