Here is a quick walk through of setting up your Silverlight 4 development environment. The first assumed step is that you have Visual Studio 2010 already installed and any appropriate patches. Then download the following in order and install each. Silverlight 4 Tools RC2 for Visual Studio and Silverlight 4 RTW Expression Blend 4 Release... Continue reading →

Started a new Sketchflow Prototype in Expression Blend recently and documented each of the steps. This blog entry covers some of those steps, which are the basic elements of any prototype. I will have more information regarding design, prototype creation, and the process of the initial phases for development in the future. For now, I... Continue reading →

I tried Clear about a year ago and I had some issues with it. Speed, connectivity, and a number of other things just were not really there for me. However, I am trying it again, and so far I have some better things to say this time around. The first thing, is that the speed... Continue reading →

In this entry I just want to cover some examples of how to connect to Webtrends DX Web Services. The DX Web Services use REST as the architecture, providing simple URI based end points to connect to. With the Webtrends SDK you can connect to these services with your account information. Here are the basic... Continue reading →

I wonder if anyone has had issues with running MSCharts with MVC 2? I have tried a couple of different issues, but still have not got them to render correctly. In the end I always end up with broken image links. Has anyone seen this? I have no errors displaying in my MVC 2 Application... Continue reading →