Posted on Monday, December 29 2008 by John Papa
I was reading a post by Tim Greenfield today regarding RIA and security . He also followed this up with a nice post on how to implement one of his techniques using sessions. Taking this from the Silverlight RIA perspective this has some interesting turns. His scenarios are compelling as any information...
Posted on Saturday, December 20 2008 by John Papa
The DataGrid has taken some heat for a few problems it has caused people in Silverlight. That’s why it is great to see an updated version of the DataGrid so quickly. This new version claims to contain almost 30 fixes to the DataGrid: One of my most awaited changes is in here too: combobox and others...
Posted on Thursday, December 18 2008 by John Papa
Today I saw the first copies of my book in print, hot off the presses. So where can you get it? You can purchase the ebook today from O’Reilly’s site You can buy the print version of the book also from O’Reilly’s site You can purchase it from Amazon , who will be receiving my book in the next few days...
Posted on Wednesday, December 17 2008 by John Papa
Today was supposed to be the geekSpeek webcast for my ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight topic …. however … life took a detour. This morning my family had a little scare and I had to rush to the hospital when my unborn son decided to shake things up a bit. Both mom and the baby are doing fine after...
Posted on Monday, December 15 2008 by John Papa
This Wednesday at 3pm EST (12PT) I will be joining Glen Gordon and Brian Johnson for a MSDN geekSpeek webcast where we will be talking about Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. If these pictures aren’t enough to scare you away encourage you to join us, then come for the great topic, conversation and...
Posted on Friday, December 12 2008 by John Papa
Now that my Silverlight 2 book is going to be in stores very soon I’ve taken a look back at some of the books I wrote through the years. Here is a cover shot from an ADO book I coauthored eons ago. And no, the new book has a very normal cover … no more pyramids! A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
Posted on Thursday, December 11 2008 by John Papa
My book went to print today, so it will be available for purchase as soon as they finish waxing and polishing it. I plan on having materials to supplement the book including all code samples in C# and VB, a forum for questions and discussions, as well as additional material on www.silverlight-data.com...
Posted on Saturday, December 06 2008 by John Papa
Earlier today I had the opportunity to present a session at Tampa Code Camp 2008 on ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight 2. Oh, and the code camps was a nice place to promote my new book too :-). The session went well, we had lots of great questions, some good after the session chats, and none of my...
Posted on Wednesday, December 03 2008 by John Papa
Moonlight 1.0 beta 1 has been released! You can read more about it here . We are getting close to being able to run Silverlight 2 applications on Linux. The roadmap for Moonlight is is a good reference point to check out the where they are taking it....
Posted on Wednesday, December 03 2008 by John Papa
This Saturday is the Tampa Code Camp 2008. The session lineup looks great so far, so be sure to stop by and spend some time learning, networking and just hanging out with a great group of people. I will be presenting a session on Astoria and Silverlight in the morning at 9:40am. It should be a lot of...
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