I have not been posting lately because my wife just gave birth to our first child.  I'm taking a couple months off to spend time with my wife and daughter.  I'll be back in action after the new year.  Stay tuned, because I may throw up an occasional post if I get an itching for a technology fix:).  In the mean time, don't forget to check out my team blog as well as blogs from my fellow team members:

Public Sector Developer Weblog

Robert Shelton's Blog

Bloggercoaster (Joel)

Lamont Harrington's Blog

In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here, I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code.  What if you store your Closed Captioning information in an external data source (database, SAMI file, XML file, etc.) and want to keep it there?  Do you have to reprocess all of your videos using Expression Encoder?  Of course not, but you do have to write some code:).  In this screencast, I show you how to use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)  to solve this problem. 

You can view the screencast here.

To get the sample code, just click the link below:

The sample requires Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 or later.

If you haven't been paying attention to Pete Brown's blog, then you are missing out.  Pete continues to crank out great stuff on Silverlight.  Have a look at his blog for more. Direct link to TreeView/WrapPanel post here.