Commit early and often, that's what I say. It offers measurement and accountability. If I make a bug fix or create a feature and check it in, and things break, I know what caused the problem. If I check in 512 unrelated tasks all at the same time, and things... [Read More]

Tonight, Silverlight 2 is being released to the web (RTW).  This release marks an important milestone for .NET developers, probably more so than most realize. Silverlight 2 provides a browser control that can host .NET assemblies.  If you’ve been living under a rock, or if you just haven’t been following... [Read More]

After I posted about how to regain tab navigation in a popup, Ian commented that the workaround had some flaws.  First, he lost intellisense inside the <UserControl> and second, which is more painful, he could not refer to any controls inside the child <UserControl> from the page's code-behind. Well, I... [Read More]

One of the approaches I've tried using to combat the PropertyChangedEventHandler nuisance is an extension method on INotifyPropertyChanged.  Actually, a pair of them.  One accepts a single property name and the other accepts a param array of property names, so that events can be fired for multiple events succinctly. 1:... [Read More]

While building an app in Silverlight 2 RC0, I was trying to use a Popup to display a login form.  Pretty basic form: Username, Password, button.  But I immediately noticed that I could not hit Tab to move from one field to the next. Here's some XAML that demonstrates the... [Read More]