Daily Links 27/01/2009

Creating a Navigation Bar In Silverlight

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

Total View Validation
Another approach to validation for wpf - gr8 article.

Application Architecture guide 2.0 released

SQL SERVER - Rules for Optimizining Any Query - Best Practices for Query Optimization
...read the comments

All Microsoft SDKs in one place!

Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid

Free download: Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool

Mono 2.2 may overtake .NET in some critical categories
I don't know about "critical categories", but it's nice to see the Mono Project isn't just riding on the .NET framework coat tails.

Ways I’ve increased my productivity

Free neural network courses on-line for Java & C#
Course started 26 Jan

Daily Links 22/01/2009

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper
:)

Unit Testing File I/O Operations

Fun with ItemsControl
Sometimes when you think you need a ListBox control, you actually only need the ItemsControl.

Silverlight User Control Inheritance

Silverlight Docking and Ribbon controls

NCover v3.0.9 beta is now available

NUnit 2.5 Beta 2 Release
"NUnit 2.5 moves on to its second beta release which now supports Theories, updates to the assertation helper, support for difference CLR versions and some changes the the GUI runner."
"includes pNUnit, an extended NUnit runner for distributed parallel tests"

Mono vs. .NET Framework: Public API Compatibility

Gotchas: Migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit)

Daily Links 19/01/2009

OO Design principles
Great summary of principles to understand in order to design / write great OO code

patterns & practices Mobile Pocket Guide Update

Evergreen but still topical: MVC vs. MVP

Silverlight - Drag and Drop with managed code

Quadra Dialog control for Silverlight
Free control and source for getting "form windows" going in silverlight.

Posting login credentials to your Silverlight app

RIA security 101: Logins, web services, usernames and passwords

Silverlight Border Control

Google SketchUp - free 3D modelling tool

Daily Links 18/01/2009

Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict

Silverlight Tips of the Day - Summary Outline
Mike Snow provides a contents post for all his "Silverlight Tip of the Day" posts

Extended Strongly Typed Resource Generator

Tab Navigation lost on Silverlight popup control - workaround

HOWTO: Create Vector-Based Backgrounds in WPF

XAML Guidelines released!

Avoid object initializers & the using statement - C# 3.0 Gotcha

TransactionScope and Unit Tests
Good post on handling DAL Integration Tests with transactions

Ora, The Region Alternative

Kodu - Simple Game Programming for kids from Microsoft Research

Daily Links 09/01/2009

Eight Evil Things Microsoft Never Showed You in the ClickOnce Demos (and What You Can Do About Some of Them)

It seems Silverlight xap compression isn't what it should be. Here's a work-around

GroupBox for Silverlight 2

Published the Source code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls

Was trying to serialize my object model using the XmlSerializer, one object of which contained a Dictionary type property. To my dismay, it seems that the Dictionary class (anything the implements IDictionary according to the error) is not xml serializable.
Post to the rescue
..now I'll wait and see what it does across a WCF service :)

Karvonite - Agile Persistence Framework (CTP Jan 2009 Release)

Improvements to the usual stand up meetings

5 frameworks every software architect should consider

Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business

Bad ISV Marketing Ideas from the Department of Stupid

Daily Links 05/01/2009

Silverlight Toolkit Dec Release

Blacklight v2.0 (Dec08) is here!
Great opensource Silverlight effects library (and some WPF stuff)

Silverlight on a Desktop
Looks promising

MD5 Released for Silverlight by member of Microsoft CLR Security Team

Ayende's really impressed with this UI Mocking tool

WPF Test Helper Library
Commandline parsing API, Input API, UIA Utility API, Visual Verification API, WPF Dispatcher

Building a silverlight LOB Application - Part 5

BlendSense: XAML Intellisense for Expression Blend

Design and Testability
"Unit Testing - Solid Design == PAIN!" :)

How to Motivate Developers - A three step framework
Excellent article.