Corrina , head UX-designer for Silverlight,  just posted some cool new themes for the Silverlight 3 Navigation Application and, better yet, some ideas on how to tweak the ones that are out there to make them match your specific scenario.  ...

David Yack dropped by my office today and we had a good chat about the direction of Silverlight and RIA Services.   David has some great feedback for us from several real apps he has been working on.  He also dropped off a copy of his book...

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    While many of the RIA Services examples we have shown thus far do CRUD directly against database tables, I certainly recognize that many scenarios require...

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff.    Azure represents a general trend in the industry towards a cloud computing model. As much as I love the development phase of projects, the operations side...

Still updating my Mix 09 Silverlight 3 + RIA Services talk with more fun stuff. This time I take up a challenge from Mr. Wildermuth . Shawn recently raised a very interesting issue with RIA Services development. He works with a lot of large enterprises...

Wow – the gift that keeps giving.. I am *still* having fun updating my my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.   Would anyone be interested in a say 10 hour session at PDC2009 where we walk thought all of this stuff ;-).  Anyway, in...

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to explore one of the most popular data access solution for .NET – NHibernate.  Many customers finds that the flexibility...

Still have good fun updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo.  In this part, I wanted to consider how we might build the admin site of our site.. Because it is just for a very small number of trusted users, I’d like to get something up...

Continuing in our discussion of Silverlight 3 and the update to .NET RIA Services. I have been updating the example from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”. RIA Services is very much an extension of the LINQ project. Effectively...

More from my Mix09 talk “building business applications with Silverlight 3 ”.  So far in this series we have looked at how to build out an new application using Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services… but now let’s look at how to evolve an existing...

*** Notice: I will be updating these over the next few weeks for Silverlight 4 beta, RIA Services beta and VS2010 *** You can also use the full index of these posts . This series on updating my Mix09 talk to current bits has sort of taken on a life...