In building the Silverlight client for Dataphor, we built a simple helper class that makes asynchrony much easier to deal with. This class has proven useful for composing UI logic for several other … more

I found myself frustrated recently with the positioning of Popups in Silverlight. I was surprised that web searches didn't seem to turn up accurate information, so I'll offer some things I've found … more

The Need To Migrate

In extending Dataphor to include a Silverlight client, one of the biggest changes that had to be made was the communication layer. Since its initial version, … more

If you've followed the latest in the Dataphor wiki you'll know we're building a Silverlight client for Dataphor.  From the sound of "new client", one would think this effort would involve … more

Progress on the Dataphor front has been slow but steady for a long time now. Recently, however, thanks to support from the community as well as targeted investment from Dataphor users, we have been … more

I've had this rant rotting in my notes for too long, time to post.  The topic is features that were in WPF but are missing from Silverlight 2.  Now that Silverlight 3 is in beta, this … more

DCG has been very quiet for some time.  Not much activity on any of our sites, and our dataphor.org and alphora.com sites have been down for a couple weeks.  Though this doesn't look good, I … more

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2008-69.pdf

This excellent paper from James Larus at Microsoft Research discusses how software abstractions and raised software … more