I found a couple of nice databinding tricks with the SyndicationFeed class, while putting together a code sample. The sample has been posted on silverlight.net for some time now ( click here and then look for "Syndication - RSS/Atom Feed Reader"). ...

(Cross-posted from http://eugeneos.blogspot.com/2008/04/debugging-web-service-usage-in.html ) Silverlight 2 Beta1 makes it easy to use Web Services based on either the WCF technology (Windows Communication Foundation), the “.asmx” technology (ASP.NET...

Karen Corby, PM working on the Silverlight 2 HTTP stack, posts an awesome overview. Her first post covers the site-of-origin policy (also known as the cross-domain restriction) and the two APIs used for HTTP communication: WebClient and HttpWebRequest...

When debugging Silverlight 2 Beta 1 apps in Visual Studio, you might see exceptions show up like this: An exception of type 'System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException' occurred in System.ServiceModel.dll but was not handled in user code Additional information...