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the web site and blog of tim heuer, program manager for microsoft silverlight. a great resource for learning silverlight development and other microsoft related technology.

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Using SQLite in a Metro style app21 May 2012

At the “Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++” event that happened on 18-May-2012, we saw and heard some very interesting things. If you were watching live then hopefully you didn’t see how I tried to work through my presentation whi...

Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI26 Apr 2012

Being more involved in the engineering process of a product I had the chance to participate in the design of various features instead of just the ones that I’m responsible for delivering. One of those areas was the way we would enable developers ...

Metro app development hidden gem: anonymous type binding10 Apr 2012

Just a little post to point out a hidden gem if you are a .NET developer creating a Metro style app: you can bind to anonymous types. This came up in a discussion with a customer today that I was having and, frankly, I never tried it until then bec...

Stung by Azure Data Transfer fees10 Apr 2012

I should have known better honestly. I’ve had one strike with cloud billing catching me by surprise and I’m not sure why I’m shocked it happened again. This time, however, I thought I really did plan it out, pay attention to things and aske...

Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout2 Apr 2012

My blog runs on Subtext which has a pretty good skinning model (albeit a tad outdated) and allows you to customize whatever you want. I’ve had my own custom theme since 2009. I figured I was due for an update. I was further strengthened by a ...