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...

In Dev10 Beta 1, which was just released, there isn’t any way to enable the Transparent Platform Extensions (aka Assembly Caching) or Out of Browser features for Silverlight 3 Beta. To enable these manually is pretty straight forward. However, you should 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...