• Silverlight pre-cache dlls in browser cache - the secret compressed dlls as png Trick!

    This is a trick used by the Bing Maps Silverlight folks - but as far as I can tell (by Binging the web) I"m the first to actually blog about this secret technique and show you how it's done. I'm using the browser’s cache to download our dlls...
  • 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...
  • Debugging Silverlight with windbg (finding eaten exceptions)

    Lately lot's of people are asking me the question “Isn’t Silverlight dead?” Even with the post rumors still abound strong – likely due to the prevalence of html5 in the windows 8 demo . Today two peopl e asked me. I tell them what...