Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

This is the first in a series I'm calling the "Silverlite" series, posts covering issues I encounter working with Silverlight 2.0.  I hope to work with Silverlight for a long time, so hopefully the series will be around for a long time, too. Tonight'... [More]

This post describes the issues I encountered moving my Silverlight 2.0 Application from development to a hosted server environment.  The app is running great and deployment really wasn't too bad, considering I had never installed a Silverlight applic... [More]

Twitter is a marvelous thing.  Without flying to Los Angeles, our crack DBVT Staff can deliver, via the #PDC Twitter Stream, each and every PDC2008 highlight for you without ever having to get off our fat asses taunt, shapely buttocks. All hail "Sco... [More]

Two good screencasts on passing parameters to a Silverlight 2.0 Control are available on Silverlight.Net. The first from Mike Taulty demonstrates InitParameters as a property in the ASPX Silverlight control.  The second from Tim Heuer demonstrates us... [More]

This will be my last Silverlight 2.0 Immersity post because we've arrived at the portion of our show where it's all .NET all the time.  Now that the datagrid is pretty much in place, we're back to supplying the Business Logic to populate lists, updat... [More]

One of the good things about being older and typing out code for so long is being able to appreciate how far Microsoft's great development tools have evolved.  The intellisense in VS2008 seems much improved over VS2005, and VS2005 intellisense was go... [More]

Our Silverlight 2.0 period of Immersivity today gives us the opportunity to work with ComboBoxes in our DataGrid.  The issues that need to be addressed are binding the correct value of the ComboBox-enabled column, binding a list to the ComboBox, and ... [More]

The Silverlight 2.0 period of Immersivity continues with today's keywords being Silverlight 2.0 Datagrid; Silverlight 2.0 Two-Way Data Binding; 2-Way Data Binding; No-Way Data Binding. (Just joking with the last one.  HA! HA!) For good or bad, I stuc... [More]

I have the opportunity to immerse myself in Silverlight 2.0 for a week or two.  The immediate objective is to replace a bandwidth-intensive custom Community Server form with a Silverlight 2.0 version.  The long-term objective is to move the inte... [More]

Keyvan Nayyeri's Task Scheduler Application is taking shape with working Beta 1 source on CodePlex.  The K-Man discusses the release here. The solution contains a Website Project and Abidar class library as shown here. Keyvan includes a Clear Cache... [More]