I recently read Mike Taulty’s post on creating a FlickR searcher with Silverlight and Microsoft’s System.Reactive extensions. In his post, Mike says this about the way his property … more

  The ADO.NET team at Microsoft just announced the release of the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP. There are a few nice features in there – one that I have been looking forward to is the … more

  One way to avoid the spaghetti code and awkward namespaces that arise from using the Add Service Reference in Visual Studio is to extract your service interface code (including any DTO’s) into … more

A simple class to manage dispatching calls to a UI thread in a silverlight application (might work in WPF too, I haven't tried it!)   public static class UIThread { private static … more

  It looks like the ASP.NET MVC team have changed the way model validation will work for the upcoming version 2 of the MVC framework. This was totally in response to user feedback on Twitter and … more

I bought Expression Studio 3 a while back – it’s really not bad at all. Expression design is not up to Adobe Illustrator standards by any means but for my purposes it’s very serviceable. Personally … more