Today’s XKCD comic had the following ALT text: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy". I felt compelled to put this to the test with a... [Read More]

I saw mention of Google Scribe the other day.  If you open it up in Chrome, it has a feature for reading your mind.  Okay, it’s just word completion.  While I can usually type a word out faster than I can read what auto-completion is providing me, break my stride,... [Read More]

Today at MIX11, Brad Olenick announced RIA/JS, a jQuery client for WCF RIA Services.  This is an early preview that we want to get your feedback on.  Long before WCF RIA Services V1.0 was released, we started talking RIA Services support for AJAX; in fact, you can see the item... [Read More]

This week at MIX, the RIA Services team has put out two releases: WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 Preview (April 2011) Download available here.  This MSI is also included with the Silverlight 5 Beta Tools. Note: you cannot have both SP1 and SP2 installed on your machine.  Installing SP2 will... [Read More]

On March 8, Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 was released to MSDN subscribers, and general availability is March 10.  For the WCF RIA Services team, this is especially exciting because our MSI is chained into the installation.  If your machine has the Silverlight 3 SDK on it, then VS... [Read More]