There’s a big push regarding “developer/designer workflow” afloat and for good reason. A professional LOB RIA must look great, respond in ways that inform the user about what’s happening, and be fast, efficient and bullet-proof. Very few humans are good enough in all areas of modern day computing to single-handedly bring one of these applications [...]

[here's a Friday post in honor of Silverlight 3 being released] If you want to have a little fun at your next code review, tell your manager that Silverlight 3 is out and that Microsoft has changed the preloader (Splash Screen) from the old “rotating blue circles” to something different (but be sure to bring [...]

[updated 7/12/09 to Silverlight 3 RTW] If you come to Silverlight with a Flex background, the first time you use a StackPanel you will be disappointed to find that there are no horizontalGap or verticalGap (depending on the Orientation) properties as in the Flex counterparts: VBox and HBox. In Flex these two properties are super [...]

[updated 7/12/09 to Silverlight 3 RTW] I’m contemplating porting an application I wrote in Flex over to Silverlight. One requirement would be to display a bunch of formatted text with some of the contents formatted like HTML hyperlinks. The links must be clickable so I can display a callout explaining that particular piece of text. [...]