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

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

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

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

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