Thanks to modular MSBuild tasks and components, you can actually build Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on the same build machine, without having .NET 4 installed. This is great for constrained TFS build environments, and although not supported in any way, this does allow you to edit and build simple Silverlight 4 apps created first ... 20 Mar 2010

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My MIX 10 talk, an introduction to unit testing on Silverlight and the Windows Phone, is now online for streaming and download. Thank you to everyone who attended. An early preview set of bits are online at http://jeffatmix.com/ – and the next release of the Silverlight Toolkit when Silverlight 4 ships will contain support for the ... 17 Mar 2010

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The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML. For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it doesn’t work well without running Live Writer ... 10 Mar 2010

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I’ve adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. This control has built-in syntax highlighting C#, C++, JavaScript, VB.NET, XAML/XML. In the future, once Silverlight 4 is out, I’ll of course make sure to update this to work with the rich text control to allow for copying and pasting ... 8 Mar 2010

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At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. 7 Mar 2010

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Here's a simple application (and optional source) for a tool to allow you to quickly Authenticode code sign Visual Studio 2010 extension files (VSIX). 2 Mar 2010

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I recently documented the steps to "code signing 101": acquiring a trusted cert/key pair, the process, and then signing an app. 27 Feb 2010

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