When you work with Silverlight classic or for Windows Phone everyday like I do, you get used writing code that helps you get back on the UI thread when needed. > I was chatting with Jeff Wilcox about threading and I tossed this code at him, as Jeff also has a SmartDispatcher class [http://www.

WCF is an integral part of the communication stack for Silverlight applications, but sometimes things go wrong, very wrong. How do you fix those issues. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Yavor Georgiev from the WCF and Silverlight team shows you how to identify the problems with your WCF services a

Want to build a Bing web and image search using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Kirupa Chinnathambi of the Expression team shows you just how to do that in this week's episode [http://jpapa.me/sltv45]. Kirupa covers a lot of topics as he builds the app, including how to: * wire up the app

Today the final Windows Phone Developer Tools have been released! You can read all the details over at the Window Phone Developer Blog [http://jpapa.me/9rPPfr] post. Other Relevant Links for the Windows Phone Developer Tools: * Download Center Landing Page [http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID

Last week I presented a 200 level session on Silverlight Out of Browser features over Live Meeting to the Orlando .NET user group (ONETUG). The session covered all of the fundamentals of out of browser, went into several examples, and showed a few tips and tricks. I packaged up the some of the more