At present, Microsoft’s Expression Blend (using the March CTP 2.5) is the best way to graphically manipulate and generate a Silverlight UI. The SDK for Visual Studio 2008 does not provide support for manipulating Silverlight elements using the layout view, but does provide intellisense (which Blend lacks...

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...