There were a lot of announcements at MIX this year! I’d really encourage you to watch the day 1 keynote and day 2 keynote videos, but if you don’t have time here’s a visual summary of the key headlines… Day 1 Keynote , Dean Hachamovitch, Scott Guthrie...

I have seen quite a few projects where the code starts with the best of intentions in terms of readability, but soon setup and boilerplate code creep in and it becomes hard to focus on where the setup and clean up ends and the functionality begins. ...

I wrote a blog article a few weeks ago about how to write animated panels. Another way of doing this was introduced to me by Stuart Richardson using Blend Behaviors which I like a lot. It’s fairly simple so this is going to be a short post. Suppose you...

In a recent posting, available here , I tried to explain why the IEnumerable Distinct() method employs an IEqualityComparer implementation. In this posting I will provide a simple extension to IEnumerable for the Distinct() method that allows one to use...

As you may know when working with LINQ there is a method that allows one to return distinct elements from a sequence. Two prototypes are supported: Distinct<TSource>(IEqualityComparer<TSource>) Distinct() Unlike most sequence operations...

Pulling through specific web page content Recently I’ve been working on developing dashboard application for a team portal site in SharePoint 2010. As any familiar with dashboard design and development knows, you often find yourself pulling in various...