The Problem: I was working with PLINQO objects and needed a way to inspect individual objects quickly for Debugging purposes and displaying detail information about the entity. The NetTiers framework had a nice feature where you could simply call .ToString() on an object to get a nice list of public...

As you may or may have not noticed, I’ve dropped “Word of the Day” from my title – the result of the present-day lack of a feature in Microsoft’s LINQ to SQL and my oscillating affection for DIY (doing it yourself). To get a random record from a DataContext, there exists no readymade Extension method...

Silverlight 2.0 (now in Beta 1) is Microsoft's first true entry in devising a cross-platform, rich internet application development framework competitive with Adobe Flash and Flex. The first week after it went into beta testing with a limited go-live license, I don't think there is a developer...