Using Moq with Silverlight for Advanced Unit Tests
Moq is a library that assists with running unit tests by providing easily mocked objects that implement interfaces and abstract classes. You can learn more about Moq on their website. […]
Microsoft Online Services: Very Cool (and Cheap!)
This is not a technical post, but one that bumps into business. Yes, occasionally us software developers have to lift our heads up and see that there’s more to life […]
Programmatically Accessing the Live Smooth Streaming API
Live Smooth Streaming is a Microsoft technology that allows you to take a live, encoded, incoming video stream and rebroadcast it using Smooth Streaming technology. This technology multicasts the video […]
Simple Dialog Service in Silverlight
I noticed on the forums there are a lot of users not comfortable with asynchronous programming who struggle a bit in Silverlight with getting their arms around the concept of […]
My CLR via C# book is at the printer. The source code and Introduction are available now!
Hello all, I just wanted to tell everyone that my book, CLR via C# 3rd Edition, went to the printer this week and should be in stores in early February! […]
New Silverlight 3 Version Released (3.0.50106.0)
A new version of Silverlight 3 has been released. You can download the latest control here. If you are a developer, then you’ll want to use the developer installer that […]
Making Your Own 8K Homegrown Inversion of Control Container
If you develop software, chances are you you’ve worked with Inversion of Control containers and the Dependency Injection pattern. Many frameworks exist to address how to marry concrete implementations to […]
Quick Tip: Embedding and Accessing Schemas in .NET
I have a project I’m working on that requires the use of some extensive XML manipulation. While XML can be very powerful, XML without a schema is like JavaScript objects: […]
Auto-Discoverable Views using Fluent PRISM in Silverlight
One reason a developer would use a technology like MEF is to, as the name implies, make an application extensible through a process called discovery. Discovery is simply a method […]