I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a LINQ to SQL project that ties into a multi tier model...

Being a huge Yankees fan and living out of market like I do I recently purchased the MLB.com TV package so I can watch the games on the Internet. They sued to use Real video streaming however I cranked up the video tonight and noticed some changes form last year. After a quick check, yep, its using Silverlight...

Microsoft released an update to the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 Beta 1. I'm excited to try this out as I am working on a Silverlight application that uses the "deep zoom" technology and some of the new features/improvements should help it go smoother. Yesterday I posted that Expression...

  Expression Studio 2 is out of beta and has been released. I've been using the betas and they have been pretty good, but its nice to finally get my hands on the full release as v2 is much better than v1. Expression Studio contains the following products: Expression Web 2 Expression Blend 2...

Tony Davis of Simple-Talk.com sent me a message today letting me know that they are releasing an eBook called "Best of Simple-Talk" and that one of my articles regarding gathering RSS feeds will be in it as well as my colleague Jonas Stawski 's articles. I do not believe it is released...

This morning I was getting ready to record a screencast about ReSharper 4 EAP. To make it easier for people to follow along, I launched Roy Osherove's excellent utility, Keyboard Jedi . Rather than the expected result, this friendly dialog box greeted me: Living La Vida x64 My main development machine...

No that's not a typo in the title ... it's my poor attempt at dry humor :) I have had several questions from people over the past few months regarding my noticeable sparseness in blogging. The truth is that it took me a while to get back to setting up my new blogging home at www.johnpapa.net...

Yeah, I know its expected that when a product is in beta and its ancillary features are released in a CTP that there will be some "interesting" issues in getting set up. But its getting a bit out of control (in a good way) lately with all of the installations related to the Entity Framework...

I've been monitoring the nightly EAP builds of Resharper 4 and the latest ones have been pretty stable. While all of the features are not in yet (most notably full support for LINQ), there is enough in here to really get a sense for how it is evolving. I installed build 767 a few days ago and its...

In the March issue of MSDN Magazine's Data Points column I explore a variety of the Standard Query Operators and how they work with LINQ. Read more about standard query operators at johnpapa.net ...