Jimmy Lewis' blog

If you have a Silverlight application that is consumed by a Web Site Project in Visual Studio (not to be confused with a Web Application Project), and you use msbuild on your solution, you may find that the XAP file is not copied to the website.  Read More...

One scenario that happens fairly often for new apps is to create a new project and then part way through decide you want to rename it, or at least the default namespace.  With Silverlight apps, when you do this and try to run your project, you’ll Read More...

This evening I put up a blog post on my team’s blog to summarize some of the changes that have come in the Beta 2 release of VS2010 with regards to Silverlight development.  Check it out and leave any feedback. If you’re trying out the new beta, Read More...

A fair number of people are having issues with the ASP.NET control used to host Silverlight applications ceasing to work when they upgrade from Silverlight Beta 2 to Silverlight 2 RTW.  If the HTML page is also broken, the first thing to check is Read More...

Currently in Silverlight Tools Beta 2, by default when you create a new Silverlight Application, Web Site is the default project type for hosting the Silverlight app, and Web Applications are the only other option.  However, you might either prefer Read More...

While working on a Silverlight application, I wanted to have two instances of a class which faced each other.  After exploring the available transforms, I eventually remembered how to do it simply by scaling the object in a negative direction. First, Read More...