Copyright 2012 Michael Knopf's BlogModel View Controller constructs including Microsofts new MVC FrameworkLearning 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 GMT2011-03-26T00:00:00A frank and easy to understand overview, in straight forward language, of the latest buzz word MVVM: what it is, how to use it, and if we should even care about at all.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/whats-this-mvvm-thing-and-why-should-i-care.htmlFri, 26 Mar 2010 18:10:11 GMT2010-03-26T18:10:11At 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 GMT2009-03-27T00:00:00Microsoft's newest initiative for ASP NET, the Model View Controller (MVC) Framework, has been released as a Beta 1 after 5 iterations in "Preview" mode. After many years of ASP.NET's major reliance on its Web Forms technology, which has regularly under performed especially in larger application, we see ASP.NET moving back toward the traditional HTML posting...http://www.mknopf.com/articles/aspnet-mvc-framework-beta-1-is-released.htmlTue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT2008-10-21T00:00:00http://www.mknopf.com/topics/model-view-controller-(mvc).htmlMon, 15 Sep 2008 11:22:43 GMTen-us