Articles by Mike Gold

Salesforce.com allows your sales team to track customers and prospects to help manage selling your products and services. With the help of RSSBus and Syncfusion, you can tap into the Salesforce.com API and take control of the data for your sales accounts. This review delves into the features of RSSBus and Syncfusion that help you get there.

Windows 7 Phone has hit the marketplace with a splash and with it applications emerging every day. As a Silverlight developer myself, I have gone through the process of submitting a dice game to the Zune Marketplace. This article shares my experience and advice on creating and submitting your first Windows Phone app.

The latest platform, the Windows 7 Phone (WP7) allows you to create some visually stunning apps in Silverlight. If you are going to add any charting to your application, you probably want to take a look at Visifire's Silverlight charting components for the phone. This review tells you why.

Working with Silverlight in an asynchronous world can sometimes be a challenge. Here is an example of a confirmation dialog that provides some direction into that temporally ambigious environment.

This is a review of a component called the RSSBus Google Data Provider which allows you to access the Google API through a Sql Data Provider. This provider opens up the entire Google Application Suite to the .NET developer through familiar ADO.NET tools and classes.

The New Windows Phone provides a lot of opportunity for Microsoft C# .NET developers. This article describes the port of a Silverlight Browser Application called Magic EightBall to the Windows Phone.

MVVM is an architecture that helps you design Silverlight apps right. If you want to simplify your move to MVVM then take a look at MVVM Light. This article is introduction to the MVVM Light Toolkit and how you can start to take advantage of its rich feature set

If you are doing coding on a daily basis then ReSharper for Visual Studio is a life changing product. With ReSharper you will see a change in productivity and maintainability in your programming practices. Read on to see how ReSharper can help you.

This application is a virtual Magic Eight Ball that can help you predict the future. Be careful what you ask it, you may not want to know the answer!

In the old days, I liked to walk into a Borders Bookstore and wander up and down the technical aisle to see if anything caught my eye. Like many impulsive buyers, I invariably found a useful book and justified its purchase as a business expense. These days, the thought process is a little different. I'll walk into Borders, find an interesting technical book, go home and try to find it on Amazon for a fraction of the cost. Of course if you find yourself buying a lot of technical books over the course of a year, I have a better option: a subscription to Safari Books Online, a vast repository of technical books.

Often you just need to bind a list of items or observable collection to a combobox, but sometimes its advantageous to bind a dictionary to a combobox. Binding a dictionary in silverlight is a little tricky, so here is how to do it.

NVelocity is a powerful template engine for rendering text. When NVelocity is used in conjunction with a UML tool such as WithClass, you can generate code from diagrams you create with the tool. This article steps you through generating C# classes using the NVelocity engine inside of WithClass.

The Arduino Microcontroller Board is a powerful baseline for building electronic inventions. You can talk directly to the Arduino board using the .NET framework. This article shows you how.

Silverlight gives you easy access to make your User Controls come alive. For example you can make any control in Silverlight draggable.

The web is demanding more sophistication in its applications, and Silverlight is the answer to this demand. This article will step you through the details of creating a blog application in Silverlight.

The TreeView in Silverlight is a powerful way to show hierarchical data. This article describe how to add paging inside the hierarchy of your treeview.

Silverlight Invaders is based on the classic space invaders game. This article will step you through some of the techniques for creating a 2D first person shooter game using Silverlight 4.0

In this article you will learn how to use ANTS Profiler by Red Gate gives a Command Performance.

This article is the first part in a series to guide you in deciding when it's best to leave your Programming Job. Part I addresses a host of myths that are associated with staying at a dead-end job, and how to combat them.