Silverlight Rule 1

Discovered a Silverlight issue today in Visual Studio 2008.

When you add a user defined control to a control the parsing can stuff up. If the 1st control has event handlers that are not defined or parse incorrectly then you get into a state that is hard to recover from. I ended up with many AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR and AG_E_BAD_TYPE errors.

This leads to Silverlight rule no 1.

"Don't put event handlers into your Xaml."

Until the parser gets better, either VS2010, Silverlight 3 or a patch this seems to be the way.

USB Flash memory

Been having horrible trouble with a 16GB USB Flash stick today. Couldn’t copy a 9GB file to it.  Never found an answer.  In the end I destroyed it by using convert.exe /FS:NTFS. rats

Edit:

I fixed my flash disk. In the end I booted from a windows XP DVD into a recovery mode. Then I used the FixMBR command. Oh boy.