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March 2008 - Posts

This is a great tip if you're looking to do some procedural processing within a LINQ query:   public void LINQ2XML() { int index = 0; XElement e = new XElement( "Items" , from item in myItems let itemIndex = ++index select new XElement( Read More...
For those of you who were wondering whether the new .XAP extension that Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 uses was a new format that included obfuscation of your source code then try renaming an .xap file to a .zip file because that's all it is. So if you want to Read More...
Despite all the wonderful things that LINQ provides there are amazingly some disadvantages of using LINQ. One of the main ones is "How do I use anonymous types generated by LINQ?" Well if you're wanting to do a LINQ query and then iterate over the results Read More...
So, if you've downloaded Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 and the accompanying SDK you would probably have noticed that there are a few things left out of the core dlls that ship with Silverlight which have been added to SDK. I must admit this is a very smart way Read More...