Jimmy Lewis' blog

With the release of the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta at MIX last week, you can now install any of the cool development packages we’ve been releasing with a single combined application.  However, there are a couple issues that can come up, especially...

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta, you’ll may want to try out the new features. Unfortunately, Silverlight 3 Beta is a developer only release (no end-user runtime, no GoLive license), so you might end up going back and forth. Even more unfortunate...

In Silverlight 3, the help files are shipping as a separate CHM file, instead of integrating with the offline Visual Studio documentation. We received a lot of feedback during Silverlight 2 about the installation time being very long, and one of the main...

In Silverlight 3, we’ve introduced support for binary message encoding for WCF services, which should give a performance boost. Silverlight 2, as you may recall, only supports basicHttpBinding. The new binding is the default for Silverlight-enabled WCF...