Daily Links 24/03/2009

.NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture
A deep drilldown into the thinking behind .NET RIA Services, the concepts and architecture behind the bits...

Silverlight Activity Control

Getting Started with Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control SDK CTP

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery

Virtual Earth Silverlight: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers!

Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine

Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise
Best guess as to when SL3 is being released

Silverlight 3: Array Helper

Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP

WPF Toolkit - March 2009 Release

Introducing Docu - Simple doc gen for .Net
For those who find SandCastle too complex

RESX Translation Tool
First pass translation of resx files using google's translation tools

Daily Links 19/03/2009

Silverlight 3 out to play
Silverlight 3 links
DataForm Control
Out of Browse Experience
Overview: .NET RIA Services
I think this is where Silverlight starts to differentiate itself from the competition - RIA LOB application development.
WPF has just become the ugly cousin :)

Silverlight 3 for business applications - video

Moq 3.0 RTM!!!
Now with Silverlight support

Modal Window in Silverlight

Silverlight ReaderWriterLock Implementation

Visibility pattern in Silverlight

Mirroring Subversion from Windows

Free WPF DataGrids
XCeed WPF DataGrid
Seems to be the most popular free datagrid offering. Requires registration and download of express edition requiring a licence key.
Microsoft WPF Toolkit includes a datagrid.
The toolkit currently has over 12000 downloads, so by codeproject standards, it's quite popular too.
Seems the xceed version has grouping capability, which the microsoft version does not.

Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications

The Computer Performance Shell Game

Daily Links 08/03/2009

Silverlight Unit Testing, RhinoMocks, Unity and Resharper.

SilverUnit - True unit testing for silverlight

Silverlight Spy
"provides detailed inspection of any Silverlight application."

How to "template" the Silverlight Calendar to behave like the Vista system calendar [Jason Cooke]

Silverlight UserControl Inheritance

Right-Clicking in Silverlight 2 -- A Refinement

Silverlight Drag Drop Manager
"allows you to easily implement drag and drop behaviour in your Silverlight projects by providing a DragSource & DropTarget control, which act as a content container and can contain any SL user control."

Silverlight: Windows 7 look-alike task bar buttons sample

Silverlight WCF Service Reference Usage Simplified
Deployment independent service references without having to change the config file.

two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex

Silverlight - Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions

Creating a WPF / Silverlight Control With a Semi Transparent Background

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - Modularity

New AnkhSvn released
OpenSource Visual Studio SVN plugin that has improved greatly over the past year or two. Highly recommended.

Speed up your app by compressing WCF service responses

10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)