A few days ago, I was looking around to see if I could find out how to run some basic code metric analysis on my projects. It seems like a few editions of VS2008 [the IDE we're using at work] DOES have some built in code metric evaluation, but only in specific versions of [...]

Neat, a new Silverlight toolkit has been released by the MS devs which will add some more components for developers to use and give feedback on.
http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight
The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and [...]

Alrighty, so during a code review it was brought to my attention that as of C# 3.0 programmers can now use implicit declaration of variables, which was completely contrary to my previous understanding of the language – in that I thought it was solely strongly typed much like C/C++. That is not the case.
Explicit [...]

So I’ve been stumped for awhile on this, and it seems I was simply misunderstanding something about the Path Syntax used to describe path data, and as I discovered shortly after, there is a limitation in what Silverlight can parse.
Let’s start at the beginning. I had a path object, that I took from an [...]

So a colleague of mine showed me a nice simple way in C# to both create and initialize an object in one step. I thought this was really neat syntax since it both saves lines of code and also saves some execution as the object is initialized with a value instead of a default [...]

Applications built using this release will work off of the Silverlight 2 RC0 Developer Runtime only. This is not intended for public deployment, as end users will not have a way to install a suitable plug-in to view the application. No existing public versions (released or beta) of Silverlight 1.0 or 2 Beta 2 will [...]