WPF and Silverlight are both XAML based platforms but there are some important functionality and implementation differences between the two. For the full scoop on the differences between WPF and Silverlight, download the whitepaper "Programmatic Differences Between Silverlight and WPF" written by the folks at Wintellect. http://wpfslguidance.codeplex.com/

Video: A Microsoft Support Callback

Here’s the first in the series of comics about developers coming from Microsoft:

A simple challenge to all developers building user interfaces:  think for a moment before making a form overly complicated.  The form below is for reverse phone number lookups: This form contains three fields for what is basically one thing:  a telephone number.  There is some JavaScript in there that bounces focus from one field to [...]

Want to be more productive as a developer? There’s some cool stuff you can do with code snippets in Visual Studio. Brian Noyes has a good overview on here, including some things I’m embarrassed to admit that I did not know. If you’re interested in productivity, you might also be interested in the Visual Studio [...]