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  • Upcoming Silverlight 2 Talks and Webcasts

    I hope you're as excited about Silverlight 2 as I am! If you haven't checked it out yet, Scott Guthrie just posted a great article and a huge multi-part tutorial for building a Silverlight 2 application to pull Digg results back via REST. He shows off tons of features, and you can infer even more from the screenshots. I think it's great that Scott has been able to finally provide some real de...

    Published Friday, February 22, 2008 | Tagged: , , , , , , | 6 comments

  • Extension Methods D'oh! Moment

    Sometimes you get so caught up in the complexity of an overall problem or solution, that you miss the simplest error even when it is staring you right in the face. So, the other day, I was working on some c# code for a personal project I'll post here in a few weeks. In it, I needed to create a color based on HSL rather than RGB. HSL is very useful when you want to generate a number of colors...

    Published Friday, February 22, 2008 | Tagged: | 4 comments

  • Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 2

    Scott just provided some more details on Silverlight 2. This is going to be a great spring :)

    Published Friday, February 22, 2008 | Tagged: , , | 1 comment