Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual publishing mechanisms for MSDN documentation, I've still heard the rumblings about the new help experience with Visual Studio 2010. A lot of folks don't like the...

I've recently been working on a Windows Phone 7 application, and got thrown a small setback with the release of the beta version of the Windows Phone 7 tools. There are several breaking changes between the April CTP refresh and the beta version, which...

Just uploaded new versions of offline and online MSDN documentation. The offline CHM is great for fast offline access and best of all, it's just Silverlight docs. You won't get any other technologies mixed up in your search results, index, etc. - Offline...

Its time to start building more applications and games for Windows Phone 7. Developer tools beta for Windows Phone has been released . Few important updates in the beta are: Blend is now compeltely integrated into the Windows Phone Developer Tools...

[Post Updated] The Silverlight Output Protection information that used to be in this blog post has been updated in the Silverlight Digital Rights Management (DRM) topic on MSDN. In case you were wondering what Output Protection is: "The purpose...

Answering a recent silverlight.net forum question got me thinking again about how we've documented the use of FrameworkElement.Name , in particular how you might use it (or abuse it) at run time. Really, this is an area of API that has a few shades of...

Okay, I am totally biased toward Silverlight; I could tell you a million reasons why you should be building Silverlight apps, all of which you can take with a grain of salt due to my bias as part of the Silverlight developer content team. However, one...

I've been creating some Silverlight applications for Windows Phone lately and I've run into a few speed bumps I thought I'd pass along. This one is in regards to closing the SIP. The virtual keyboard on the phone or the SIP (Soft Input Panel) is the...