I saw this great post on encrypting your data using Windows Phone 7 by Rob Tiffany. Rob makes several great points, including how easy it is to accomplish this task in Windows Phone 7. Keep in mind that not only passwords and connection strings should be encrypted - anything that your application uses...

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After having several discussions at CodeCamps, seeing the debate on Twitter and even the comments on Charlie Kindel 's recent post " Hey, You, Get Off of my Cloud " on the Windows Phone Developer Blog , I felt compelled to answer a few of the points that quite a few people, including quite...

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Thanks to everyone who came to my session this morning at Richmond CodeCamp! The Presentation and Demo Code can be downloaded here: ( link ) (6.9 MB) Please email me with any questions you may have....

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Great news, just heard that I have two sessions accepted for both of these learning events. Here are the details: Richmond CodeCamp 2010.1 - Saturday May 22nd, 2010 - Richmond, VA. http://richmondcodecamp.org/ Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Series Track / Area: Developer / Mobile Technology: Windows...

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Last year I spoke at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. This year, I have submitted 3 sessions for CodeStock 2010 - session selection is based on attendee voting, so please go vote for them if you would like to attend these sessions at this year's CodeStock! Deploying Silverlight Based Web Parts with SharePoint...

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I am in the process of moving all technical content from my personal site ( http://dsaxman.com ) to this site. I'll do my best to get it moved over as quickly as possible, so please bear with me. I'll do my best to create a permalink in the old post to the new post so that people will be able to find...

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Missed the event last year but am super psyched to be speaking at CodeStock 2009 this year. I'll be presenting my "Converting your LOB Apps to Silverlight" talk and hanging out in the OpenSpaces area otherwise....

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Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Converting your Line of Business Application to Silverlight at the Richmond DotNet User Group (April 2nd), Philly CodeCamp (April 18th) and Richmond CodeCamp 2009.1 (April 25th). As I mentioned in my talks, the demo application is one that is used at my current...

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Last fall, I put together a NewEgg wishlist for a new 64 bit machine that I built. I tweeted about it, but evidently didn't make a blog post. The main purpose of this machine is to run Server 2008 in Workstation mode with IIS7 and SQL 2008. The specs are as follows: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Processor...

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I'm working on a graphics conversion utility for use in my mobile projects as well as for a friend's web based application. My goal has been to write code that I can run both on the compact framework as well as on the full-featured version of the .Net framework. Let's say we have an Enumerable type in...

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