[Cross Posted from http://silverlightforbusiness.net ] A common requirement for a rich UI in a business application is to support dragging and dropping of UI elements.  For this to be successful you will need to be able to detect what elements you are dragging over, and you will need to support dragging over any type of layout (such as a complex grid layout), which is a contrast to many examples out there that only show dragging and dropping in relation to absolute layout with a Canvas. In addition many blogs appear to mention that the UIElement.HitTest method, available in...

This little checkbox is a welcome addition for me: It means that I can share files on a Skydrive and not require recipients to have a Windows Live ID, which was occasionally a problem before, 25GB is available for free now too which is nice Technorati Tags: Skydrive,Windows Live Ian

[Cross posted from: SilverlightForBusiness.net ] Since the announcement from Tim Mallalieu (Program Manager, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework) that “as of NET 4.0 the Entity Framework will be our recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios” your first decision on how to get data into and out of your databases has been made easier: EF is the way to go when looking at solutions from Microsoft (of course you may still decide that you would prefer to use something else from a third party, perhaps LLBLGEN, or maybe a hand crafted solution?). But after that decision you still have...