Nick on Silverlight and WPF

As Tim mentions , in beta two we don't support any form of forward references using StaticResource. We've been tightening this down for a couple CTP's now, but the last case we fixed in beta two took awhile because it's wrapped up in a larger issue. ...

As we get closer to shipping WPF, I get more and more wary of what I call heavy-handed fixes. Places where in order to fix a corner case, we disallow another case that works perfectly well. One example is a bug we found recently, where if you do a nested...

When you're writing a platform, you sometimes need to make hard choices between making the common cases easy to use and making the corner cases work 100% correct. Nested message loops have offered us many such challenges. Nested message loops -- Dispatcher...