While writing Silverlight applications, I find it challenging to pick colors from the list of predefined colors supported by Silverlight. Honestly I don’t know what those fancy colors look like. There! I said it!. Happy? To overcome this issue in true developer style, I wrote a small utility which shows all predefined colors on a [...]

Wrap panel in Silverlight is missing out of the box, but this need is fulfilled by Silverlight Toolkit which also includes many other controls. In this post we will look at WrapPanel. I will show you how to use it and what it is used for.
To use wrap panel you have to install Silverlight Toolkit. [...]

Panels are basic layout mechanism in both Silverlight and WPF. They act as containers for other controls and each panel provides a different way of laying out controls on the screen. In this post we will look at Canvas Panel in Silverlight. Canvas allows us to put controls based on x and y  coordinates. This [...]

When creating a new ADO.NET Data Service you may find yourself with this error.

Don’t call it quits on ADO.NET Data Services because of this error. It is very easy to fix. Have a close look at the code generated by Visual Studio for you.

Here the code calls SetEntitySetAccessRule on “MyEntitySet” but most likely [...]