Copyright 2012 Michael Knopf's BlogArticles and Information about the .NET Code Camp in Tampa FloridaLearning all the ins-and-outs of how to set up your Silverlight project so that you can actually solve a real-world business problem just isn't easy. This post is all about connecting the dots between your business, data, web services, website, and Silverlight app so that they can all communicate the way they need to.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/connecting-the-dots-how-to-build-a-real-world-silverlight-app.htmlSat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT2011-03-26T00:00:00Building Silverlight application takes time, effort, patients, and tools (yes, you have to have some tools). In this post we will cover: where to get the necessities and some useful additional tools, as well as straight talk about the awesomeness, disadvantages, and difficulties of building Silverlight applications. We will also cover the basics of XAML, referencing and using related assemblies, and the how Expression Blend and Visual Studio make it all happen.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/silverlight-straight-talk-the-awesomeness-disadvantages-and-difficulties-in-silverlight.htmlMon, 07 Sep 2009 20:03:27 GMT2009-09-07T20:03:27In this post we will cover Silverlight from start to finish; including architecting, coding, testing, and deploying real-world Silverlight apps. We will also discuss security, its limitations, and what you need to know to secure your application and WCF services and deploy them to IIS.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/building-real-world-data-driven-silverlight-applications.htmlSat, 29 Aug 2009 22:43:54 GMT2009-08-29T22:43:54At some time in your career you will need to interview for a job, if you own your own consulting firm then you are most likely interviewing for jobs on a weekly basis (by pitching clients to contract you for work). Preparing for technical job interviews requires a great deal of research, work, and most of all patience. This article provides a list of questions and answers that I fielded while interviewing for senior level software development positions, it is a collection of my experiences during 17 different job interviews with 10 companies including NASA (who offered me a job)...http://www.mknopf.com/articles/preparing-for-technical-job-interviews.htmlFri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT2009-03-27T00:00:00http://www.mknopf.com/topics/code-camp-tampa.htmlTue, 18 Nov 2008 04:31:48 GMTen-us