• Download Pictures from your Cell Phone via Bluetooth

    If you have a bluetooth enabled laptop and a bluetooth enabled cellphone you may be able to download the pictures from your phone to your laptop via bluetooth... EVEN if your cell phone provider says it isn't possible (as in my case). Perhaps they...
  • Identifying the root of a memory leak in Silverlight using windbg

    Considering all of the nasty blog comments out there you would think it be easy to create a test project to reproduce a leak – it wasn’t. I downloaded the latest version of SL4 and first attempted to create a leak using the inline template...
  • ClickOnce Protocol Handler (also works for Silvelight or Xbap)

    So if your goal is to create a protocol handler so that you can create a link with some data in it, click on it and have your clickonce, silverlight or xbap application open up and react to the given data in the link... this is how you do it. As a matter...
  • SQL 2005 - XML parsing... illegal xml character

    You may run into an error when using SQL 2005 and a .NET 2.0 aspx or windows client UI. Perhaps you’ve encoded your xml – you are using stored procedures and proper sqlParameters and everything – yet you still run into this exception. Example...
  • Grasshopper Level 1 - Debugging Silverlight with windbg startup

    Goal: The goal of this walkthrough is to find the stacktrace for a currently executing Silverlight Application and examine it in windbg. This intro will give you the information you need to "break the ice" with using windbg tool for debugging in Silverlight...