Recent updates to Silverlight meant I had to install the latest Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio. This has had an annoying side affect – when you press F1 in Visual Studio on a keyword that exists in both Silverlight and the .NET framework and you are using local help the Silverlight topic is displayed. If your primary development target is not Silverlight this is a royal PITA and is acknowledged on the Silverlight SDK blog.. In order to fix this right click on the VS2008 icon and run as an administrator. Choose the Index option from the Help menu....
Two hours in Starbucks with coffee and Mike Ormond? How could you pass that up? Microsoft is piloting a more local and informal technical event, called “Microsoft CoffeeTalks” at select Starbucks coffeehouses. Our team is excited about visiting these locations and meeting with the technical community, and we will use your feedback to determine if these events should be rolled out more broadly. So on Thursday 13th December at 17:00 in the Oxford Starbucks on the High Street Mike is coming to talk about Silverlight, what it is, where you might use it etc. If you fancy discovering and...