If you want to get straight to the code, you can find it here: I was going to think of a clever title for this post, but then I realized that I’d really rather prefer that people be able to find this post when they’re looking for a solution...

Note: If you’d rather just jump into the code the sample that goes with this post is here: One of the features in WPF Starter Kit ( http://wpfstarterkit.codeplex.com ) that I am very proud of is the automatic change notification functionality. While implementing...

I’ve been working on a SharePoint 2007 project recently where part of a workflow involved generating a large number of Infopath forms in a SharePoint Infopath form library. Now one way (and arguably the more popular way) would have been to create an empty...

I’ve been studying up on Sharepoint 2010 recently and one of the great things about it is the extensive use of AJAX and Silverlight in the new version. Combine that with the huge improvements in the development environment on Sharepoint 2010 (F5 development...

Sorry about this folks, but Technorati ( http://www.technorati.com ) wants me to post this code: H5ZVWFJ3E4S8 to verify that this is indeed my blog :)

As a little new year gift to myself, I thought I'd check in a change I've been working on for the WPF Starter Kit for some time now. In a nutshell, the WPF Starter Kit ( http://wpfstarterkit.codeplex.com ) is a great way to get started building Model...

Disclaimer: It has come to my attention that there is some confusion in the community regarding the "official status" of the WPF Starter Kit. I wanted to make it clear that this toolkit has come out of my and my team's efforts on a recent project and...

The developer kit for Windows Mobile 6.5 (including documentation) is now up here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e . You might remember me talking about this at the Tech...

Right, so I ran into an interesting problem recently. I needed to rename a bunch of files in a document library we have on our team’s MOSS site. Problem is, this is a lot of documents. So I figured I’d use MOSS’s web services to do it. Now in MOSS, a...

Today at Tech Ed I’ll be trying out something interesting. Instead of speaking on a particular technology area, I’ll be talking about building great looking applications for Windows Mobile. I won’t bother doing a full blown post about this because most...

Heh. This could be a lot of fun. I’m looking out for the first episode. 50 points to whoever can tell me who the Some Guy playing Higgins is :)

Phew! The demos are done, the Powerpoint deck’s been finalized and I am suffering from a severe lack of sleep. I hope they have lots of coffee at the convention center :) Tech Ed is an yearly Microsoft event meant for developers, IT Pros and business...

I did a quick Facebook application to show off at a session I did today. In the process, I ended up writing what might be the beginnings of a Silverlight API for Facebook. The application's here . It shows you the status messages of your friends in...

Phew! It's been a long time since my last post. I have no excuse. I've been a lazy bum and I know it. Well, getting married will do that to ya :) I have been using the Collapsible Panel control as a tool to demonstrate various Silverlight concepts over...

This was something that had been bothering me for a while. Silverlight 2 came out almost two months ago now and I still haven't had the time to go back and update CollapsiblePanel, my sample content control. To read more about CollapsiblePanel, go here...

One of the nicest (and very under-advertised) features to make it into .NET framework 3.5 was the new Syndication API ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.syndication.aspx ). The Syndication API provides .NET applications a great...

No doubt many of you have heard that Silverlight 2 RC0 just debuted. There's loads of bug fixes here since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and some breaking changes as well. Unlike the breaking changes document from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (which was 80 odd pages) this...

It's been a busy time here in Arunjeetland. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was working on two projects simultaneously. As I was doing that I had an interesting realization. It's easier to do multiple projects if they're on the same technology. The...

This article describes a utility called ProtectConfig that can be used to Encrypt/Decrypt .NET 2.0 configuration files using the ProtectSection ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.sectioninformation.protectsection.aspx ) API...

Note: The zip archive below has been updated after Silverlight 2 released to the web. For more details on the changes I made, see this post. This post is part of series that demonstrates how to write a Silverlight 2 content control. The first post...

I answered this in a comment earlier today but I figured this was something that deserved a post of its own. There seems to be some confusion around how to set the name (x:Name in XAML) of a Silverlight object in code. Here's how it's done: object...

This article illustrates the writing of a Silverlight content control. If you’d rather just dive into the code and explore it yourself then it is available for download here: http://cid-136a36717e5d129c.skydrive.live.com/embedrow.aspx/Blog%20Files/CollapsiblePanel.zip...

This is a bit of a "Did you know?" post but I was unaware of this and figured there would be other people who could use this little tip. I was recently working on a project where I needed to write a search feature. I decided to go with SQL Server's brilliant...

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is out! I can't believe the incredible number of changes they made between versions. Sure some of them can be a pain during upgrades (I'll talk more about this in another post) but the new features make it worth the effort :) Here...

A disclaimer before you read on. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is due out very soon (sometime this week or early next week) and will mean changes in the installation instructions. I will post an updated quick guide when it is publicly available. Till then, read...