By now a lot of you must be having a lot of fun of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. If you have not downloaded, installed and played with SL 2 Beta 1, I urge you do it right away - you are missing out!!! You can download SL2 here . I have been working on a number of projects that are using the Silverlight 2...

In several of my discussions with customers around WPF in the recent past, I got asked a bunch of questions around Control Templating. Most of them can be summarized to one - "how do control templates work". Control Templating is fairly fundamental to WPF development, and unlike some niche features like...

Especially LINQ To XML. There are many exciting aspects of LINQ in general, and LINQ To XML in particular , but I especially like LINQ To XML as an option to (de)serialize between XML and CLR types. The established pattern for XML serialization in .Net is usually as follows: · Use tools like WSDl...