Interesting night for me, as I’ve spent the last 4 hours fumbling around in the Google dark trying to find a way to take “comments” for the team.silverlight blog, sanitize them but preserve their natural format in which the user typed them. In that for example, I like to sign my signature in most comments...

I’m an extremely lazy coder. If i can find a way to write a base class to do the bulk of my chores within code, by crikey I'll do it and damn the scorn from my peers. In this case, I wanted to write fairly generic CRUD (Create, Read, Update & Delete) methods using LINQ to SQL. The rationale as to...

This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and Expression Blend. The Objectives The GUI will have a PullDown Menu (UserControl) under the main outer chrome. It's intended that when a user clicks on the "MainMenu" it will not only change state, but...

Gilbert Corrales and I metup last week here at Redmond and he and I were talking to about how I wanted to make use of an EventDispatcher approach to routing events around the code base (the analogy we came up with was "the difference between a cough and a sneeze" - well maybe not a sneeze heh). EventDispatcher...