I'm just back from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, where the star of the show was the latest update to the Silverlight browser plug-in that lets you run .NET applications cross-platform and within the browser. The pace of development is remarkable. It is only 9 months ago that we were first shown the beta of Silverlight 3, at the Mix conference in March. Silverlight 3 was fully released in July; and now we have version 4.0 beta, with release promised for the first half of 2010.

Computing evolved with Desktop computing and then web apps. Browser Based apps are always slow and faulty, they can never as robust as a desktop can be. After The invention of web services and REST API, I would love to see web enabled desktop Apps. I love the concept of Portable Apps , When we mix concept of portable Apps and Cloud Based storage, we can achieve much better results. BUT Google will never let it happen, they are re-inventing all those age old things again in browser. I have posted a small video response on you tube.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on Multi-Threading in C#. Before we even think about looking at any code, I think first, since this is the intro tutorial, we need to discuss what multi-threading is, and how it can benefit your application. We will also discuss some short falls in multi-threading capabilities.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.

Have you ever stuck on "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." error? Here's how you can deal with it.

Microsoft proposes OData as the web data protocol while Google uses GData. Microsoft invites Google to join forces with them in adopting OData. Will they do it?

Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX. Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4. This occurred directly after the exciting announcement of free Microsoft branded PDC touchscreen Windows 7 laptops for attendees. This one-two punch had an unprecedented shock and awe effect.