Jim Wightman's MSDN Blog

By way of an introduction to this blog series, '26 things every programmer should know in 2012', let me tell you a little about myself. Hello. My name is Johnny Cash. I'm a Senior Software Development Engineer for Microsoft Corporation, working...

Happy New Year! As I said in my previous post, I intend to publish 26 short articles on various topics that I feel are important to every Programmer in 2012 (and beyond!). I'll looking to publish a balanced mix of technical and non-technical articles...

Over the Christmas Holidays I have enjoyed reading O'Reilly's 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - which I bought after reading O'Reilly's 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know a few years ago. As interesting a read as it was - it's always...

Have you accidentally changed the Target Phone Version property on your Windows Phone 7 app to 'Windows Phone 7.1'? Don’t feel too bad, I did it too. Here's what happened...and how I fixed it! What was I thinking??? I've had...