Phil Haack was at my desk today and saw something that I’ve set up in Visual Studio 2008 for quickly changing my profile.  It’s a trick that Sara Ford taught us in her infamous Visual Studio Tip of the Day series.  I use toolbar buttons to quickly change profiles in... [Read More]

.NET RIA Services allows you to write code on the server in an ASP.NET project, and have it available within a Silverlight application hosted by that web project.  Using build-time code generation, your entity types in the server project become available within the client project.  You can get .NET RIA... [Read More]

Something that has always nettled me is watching someone go into a properties dialog, make their changes, click Apply, and then OK.  You do realize that you can just click OK, right?  OK will apply your changes and close the window.  Why did you hit Apply and then OK? I... [Read More]

Shipping software is hard.  It can sometimes be just as intense (or more so) than writing the software.  For many months, my team at Microsoft has been working on some great new features in Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight 3 SDK.  I had the pleasure of working to prepare our... [Read More]

Ever since I started at Microsoft, I’ve been part of a team working to deliver a lot of things that are hitting the streets today.  It’s been a wild ride and it’s great to see our work going public. Here is some of what is most exciting for me to... [Read More]