Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Daily Links 09/12/2010
Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness
Windows Phone 7 gets user-friendly hack for bypassing the Marketplace, loading your own apps
Silverlight basics. Validation. Part 2. IDataErrorInfo & INotifyDataErrorInfo
WP7 update to bring copy/paste, multitasking, Bing upgrades, and custom ringers
Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7
Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps
Entity Framework CTP 5
EF Feature CTP5: Code First Walkthrough
EF Feature CTP5: Fluent API Samples
Looking at EF4 CTP5 in Parts: Part 4–Working with New and Existing Databases in Code First
Logging all SQL statements done by Entity Framework
SQL Index Selection and the Query Optimizer
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Daily Links 23/11/2010
Sterling Database for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
All-in-1 Code Framework. (Code samples)
WP7 Development Wiki
A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers
Basic Windows Phone 7 Motion Design
Windows Phone 7 app development - 7 interesting points to know before you start
Code Obfuscation and Windows Phone 7 Application Protection
Improving performance of concurrent WCF calls in Silverlight applications
SLARToolkit running on Windows Phone 7
Silverlight Augmented Reality
Caching of, in, and around your Silverlight application (part 1)
Performance of Sterling Database for Windows Phone 7
FREE development tools and a managed service to monitor and protect Windows Phone 7 applications.
WCF 4: Higher Default Throttling Settings for WCF Services
Copy files to a Windows Phone 7 device in Windows Explorer
Using the LongListSelector control on Windows Phone 7
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Daily Links 13/11/2010
Device Information for Windows Phone
Marketplace Tips for Windows Phone 7 Developers: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Ready for take-off? Top 10 things to check when you think you are done with your application.
Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes
Visiblox Charts vs. Silverlight Toolkit Charts - a test of Performance
Basically Visiblox charts are 50 - 100 times faster than the toolkit charts - however, the visiblox charts will cost you in the region of $550 for a single developer licence, whereas the toolkit charts are free.
WP7 Code: Managing Application State
WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API
Windows Phone 7 Database - CodePlex
Updated FAQ for EF4
5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7
GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1
Friday, November 5, 2010
Daily Links 05/11/2010
Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls... [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!]
Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector
Entity Framework 4.0 FAQ - Getting Started Guide
Pre-defined system styles and resources in Windows Phone 7
Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen
Silverlight 4 - Sample Data with Blend 4
Tracking sales stats with Silverlight Analytics framework for windows phone
ListPicker? I hardly even know 'er! [A detailed overview of the Windows Phone Toolkit's ListPicker control]
WP7 Tip of the Day: Silverlight Toolkit: DatePicker
File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability
ChildWindow and Accordion Styling Silverlight 4
Silverlight 3 Animated Menu
BizSpark Graduation Offer for Startups
Monday, November 1, 2010
Daily Links 01/11/2010
Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold
How to Host your Silverlight application on Amazon S3 for Free
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #29: Animations
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #28: Advertising in Your Apps
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #30: Gestures
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #31: Charting Data
Is Silverlight Over? (The Good The Ok and The Bad)
Windows Phone List Box with Images
Silverlight 4 Borderless Windows
Filtering Data using CollectionViewSource
Using Rx to fine tune moving maps in Windows Phone 7
Telerik controls for windows phone
Friday, October 29, 2010
Daily Links 29/10/2010
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #25: Talking To External APIs
Silverlight - Custom ListBox Item Template
5 least known things - Windows Phone 7 development
The Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft WCF Data Services Oct 2010 CTP 1 for .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4
WCF Data Services Learning Page
WP7 Development Tips Part 1
Some REALLY good tips in there! (that I haven't seen anywhere else)
Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update
WP7: Context Menu From Listbox
Silverlight 4 - Publishing Application to Remote Server
WCF RIA Services - Error When Moving Service To Server
.NET 4.0 : Collectible assemblies
Making Asynchronous Programming Easy (C# 5)
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Daily Links 24/10/2010
Better Silverlight 4.0 Installation and Upgrade Experience
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone
How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging ?
Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator
Offline Data Cache in Windows Phone 7 (using Isolated Storage)
Simple textbox validation wp7
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #23: Providing Trial Versions of Your App
Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode
Why Deactivated is not the same as Tombstoned
How to capture audio from your microphone in WP7
Silverlight Tip of the Day #36 : Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks
Friday, October 22, 2010
Windows Phone: Preventing the panorama control from scrolling
I have a panorama control that contains an InkPresenter control. Needless to say while drawing in the InkPresenter, the panorama manipulation events would still fire, scrolling the panorama.
I tried to google on how to temporarily lock the scrolling, and couldn’t find anything, hence this post.
The solution turned out to be quite simple: Subscribe to the ManipulationStarted event of the panorama control. You can then call the Complete() method on the event args to stop the manipulation.
So in my specific example, when the MouseLeftButtonDown event occured on the InkPresenter, I’d just set a local boolean “_panoScrollLocked” to true. This can then be queried on the Manipulation event of the panorama to prevent scrolling. Reset the variable again on the MouseLeftButtonUp event of the InkPresenter to restore the scrolling behaviour.
The same technique can be used for the Pivot controlHappy Coding :)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Windows Phone: Using Google Map images on the Bing Maps Control
I’m busy writing a Windows Phone application that involves a fair amount of map usage. When I first had a look on-line at the 2 main map providers (Bing and Google), I was quite disappointed to see that the quality of the Bing Maps were far inferior to those of the google offering – at least where I'm from here in South Africa. Needless to say this was a bit of a concern when I started developing.
Thankfully, after reading this post, I can now have the best of both worlds :). Yip – it outlines how to use Google Map images inside the Bing Maps control for silverlight.
As always, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a screen grab from the windows phone emulator:
Above you see a view from my local golf course. On the left is the Bing image, and on the right the images provided from Google. We had upgrades done to the clubhouse more than 2 years ago, and the Bing maps are still showing the old building. You can also see that the Google images are far more detailed.
…. props to Microsoft for developing a map control that is so extensible, I can share it between my silverlight and windows phone projects, as well as plug in images from another provider!
Happy Coding :)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Daily Links 19/10/2010
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #17: The Pivot Control
Ultimate Guide to speed up Visual Studio
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #18: WebBrowser Control
Authorization and Authentication using WCF Security - Silverlight
Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #19: Push Notifications
Silverlight Performance Tips
Selecting an obfuscator for Silverlight
Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy
Extended strongly typed resouce generator
Handy for binding against resource files for application globalization
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Daily Links 17/10/2010
WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx
Windows Phone: Taking screenshots for marketplace submissions
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #16: The Panorama Control
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #15: Isolated Storage
Marketplace and the App Hub
Why the Windows Phone 7 Emulator can sometimes take forever to access the network - and how to fix it!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Daily Links 14/10/2010
MSDN Whitepaper
Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight
Announcing Two Weeks of Architecting WP7 Apps
Anatomy of a WP7 Application Submission
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #13: Location Services
Reactive Extensions #3: Windows Phone 7
31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #14: Tombstoning (Multi-tasking)
Silverlight Media Framework Now With Windows Phone 7 Goodness
Samsung Omnia WP7 Review
.. some interesting limitations :|
WP7 device list
Windows Phone 7 RTM charting using the Silverlight Control Toolkit
Silverlight 4.0 - Calling Secured WCF 4.0 Service hosted with SSL and Self-Signed Certificate
Calculating The Size Of SOAP Messages
Monday, October 11, 2010
Daily Links 11/10/2010
" When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them?"
Silverlight Testing Automation Tool
31 Days of Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 Design Templates
Windows Phone 7 - Top 10 Tips for a Successful Marketplace Certification
Profile your Windows Phone 7 Application for Free
Are you ready for the WP7 Marketplace? Here's an in-depth analysis of the Application Certification Requirements
Deploying your Windows Phone 7 Application to the actual hardware.
New Features and Improved Performance in Silverlight 4
Mikogo
"Mikogo is an easy-to-use [Free] cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support."
Took it for a test-drive, and it's significantly better than Skype's screen sharing. Much better quality, esp. when presented with bandwidth constraints.
No VOIP, so use another tool (like Skype) in conjunction.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Daily Links 02/10/2010
WP7: Maintain Selected Pivot Item
Code to animate and fade Windows Phone orientation changes now supports a new mode: hybrid!
Silverlight On Mobile : InputScope in Windows Phone 7
WP7 Code: Using the GeoLocation API
Windows Phone Memory constraints
Pivot Applications for Windows Phone 7
SQLite for Windows Phone 7 created
Fully supported Persistent Database solution now being offered for Windows Phone 7
Ninja Database Lite for Windows Phone: Two Special Offers for Code Project Members
Free lite version available until 30 Oct!
Augmented Reality Accelerometer Kit for WP7
"test their accelerometer code on the emulator by simply holding a printed cutout in front of a webcam"
Workaround for showing a tooltip for disabled control in silverlight
Custom Configuration Sections FTW
Unit Testing Custom Config Section
Monday, September 20, 2010
Daily Links 20/09/2010
Windows Phone RTM API changes
..although by the looks of it, the Phone Map control doesn't support the same features as the map control available in the Bing Maps SDK - which is just as easily added to your phone project.
Metro-style ComboBox for Windows Phone 7
WP7: Context Menu From Listbox
Silverlight 4: Using The Visual State Manager And Behaviors
Automapper
Making mapping of objects easier and testable
10 Suggestions for the Architect of an Agile Team
Anemic Domain Model
7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programmers and Architects
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Daily Links 12/09/2010
Seems that there are still some memory leaks even after the hotfix that just came out - this a sample application to test controls for memory leaks
Effects (Silverlight QuickStart)
New Silverlight 4 Themes available - get the raw bits
Silverlight 4: Digitally signing a XAP with Visual Studio 2010
EF Feature CTP4: DbContext & Databases
EF Feature CTP4 Walkthrough: Code First
Turn on WCF Tracing for WCF Troubleshooting
Catching the Back Button action on WP7
Workaround for StackOverflowException when using SlSvcUtil.exe
Silverlight Code Snippets for DependencyProperties and other Handy Stuff
The Third Object
A very handy description of the different flavors of presentation patterns, the main aim of which is to separate out logic to a third object for easy unit testability.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Alternative Source Control Management for .NET
Visual SVN
Also has a great free svn server setup solution
Ankh
Free Visual Studio SVN plugin
Git Tutorial
Git Source Control Provider - VS Plugin
Git Versus Subversion: A Reconsideration
GitHub
An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
GitExtensions - use git with windows GUI
* Windows Explorer intergration for Git
* Visual Studio (2005/2008/2010) plugin for Git
* Feature rich user interface for Git
* Single installer installs Git, GitExtensions and the mergetool KDiff3
* 32bit and 64bit support!
Mercurial Source Control
Mercurial Source Control Plugin for MS Visual Studio
Daily Links 01/09/2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Daily Links 25/08/2010
Windows Phone and the Cloud--an Introduction
XNA WP7 getting started
Using self tracking entities with Silverlight 4 and Entity Framework 4
The ThreadPool is dead
Commentary on the parallel framework on codeplex.
Removing Event Handlers using Reflection
Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch
Rapid Application Developement framework for Visual Studio
An effective testing strategy
"If an application is critical to business, it’s going to require change. If it’s going to require change, we better be able to safely change it without affecting our client’s business."
Speeding up Visual Studio Build Times and Performance
Backing up and Restoring your TFS Server
PowerTool to make things just a tad easier :P
WikiPlex 1.4 Released
"WikiPlex is a regular expression based wiki engine that allows developers to integrate a wiki experience into an existing .NET application seamlessly and with little effort"
Monday, August 23, 2010
Daily Links 23/08/2010
Writing a Bing Maps location aware application for Windows Phone 7 Series
Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles
Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator
Some free Silverlight Gauge controls
WP7: Screen Considerations for Developers
MS P&P: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more - Part 3.
Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications: IDataErrorInfo
Performance Considerations when using TPT (Table per Type) Inheritance in the Entity Framework
Implementing Multithreaded Singleton Class
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Daily Links 15/08/2010
How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight using Expression Blend
Get Early User Feedback for Your Windows Phone Application
TiltContentControl for Windows Phone
Silverlight On Mobile : Charting on Windows Phone 7
A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7
Versioning issues with optional parameters
Visual Nunit 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Daily Links 06/08/2010
Siaqodb on WindowsPhone 7
Database implementation for WP7
WP7: InkPresenter
Exiting a Windows Phone Application
Running Xaml FXCop rules in FXCop GUI
More windows Phone 7 icons
Ink Demo in Windows Phone 7
Use Silverlight Reactive Extensions (Rx) to build responsive UIs
Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4
"EF code-first supports the ability to automatically generate database schema and create databases from model classes"
Using EF "Code First" with an Existing Database
Free Merge / Compare tool that integrates with VS
Free Icon Packs
Anti-virus software comparisons
Friday, July 30, 2010
Daily Links 30/07/2010
I'm surprised this hasn't garnered more widespread coverage. Makes me wonder just how many people are developing serious silverlight applications. A very black spot in an otherwise thus far brilliant development framework.
Windows Phone 7 Design Resources Updated
What’s Happening with Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 - First Impressions
Windows Phone 7 Multitasking
Windows Phone 7: The First Fart Application
Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control
Producer/Consumer Queue and BlockingCollection in C# 4.0
Entity Framework 4 - POCO Code Only
the code speaks for itself
Weak Events in C#
WeakEventSource implementation
Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Daily Links 25/07/2010
Windows Phone 7 Emulator tips and tricks
WP7: Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard
Windows Phone Test Framework (UnitTest, UITest, PerformanceTest)
Silverlight Flip Control
Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images
Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
Windows Phone 7 Developer tools released
Includes information on how to get hold of a device for development
New Version of the Productivity Power Tools is Available!
Brace completion - finally.
Building an Airport Status Mashup with Silverlight and Bing Maps
Absolue Beginners Guide to Entity Framework
The MVVM Pattern Is Highly Overrated
at last some sensibility coming through...
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Daily Links 18/07/2010
Draggable Pushpins using Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Bing Maps Silverlight Control Part 5: Calculating Distance
Protecting your Silverlight application from a hijacking
Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step
Designing for Multiple Orientations
Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Daily Links 14/07/2010
Windows Marketplace for Mobile: Registration and Application Submission Walkthroughs
Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7
Bing Map Control interactive SDK
Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Using MouseClick Event To Add "Pushpins"
Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code
EF CTP4 Released!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Daily Links 12/07/2010
Microsoft® Silverlight for Symbian Developer Tools
Silverlight Media Framework 2.0
Getting Started with Bing Map in Silverlight
Resizing Pushpin in Bing Maps Silverlight
Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data
HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Daily Links 06/07/2010
mostly support for mapping and location functionality
WP7 Code samples
WP7 opensource database options
Debugging WPF DataBinding
Dynamic Localization in Silverlight
New Silverlight Pivot Control
Duplex communication with WCF on Silverlight TV
What I Learned By Writing a WP7 App: Part 1 - Manipulations
FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK
DataSet versus plain objects
Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework
EF4 release information (with links to specific subjects)
Introducing IIS Express
New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET
SqlCE 4 - no installation required (only redist binaries)
Removing duplicates from SQL Server
Monday, June 21, 2010
Daily Links 21/06/2010
Expression Gallery
New Policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace
Sql Server Management Tools Pack
Worth it for the generate Insert statement alone
Silverlight CollectionViewSource
Apply filtering, sorting and grouping to a ItemsControl, without effecting the underlying datasource - which I'd found out about this sooner!
Using a PollingDuplex service to handle long running activities
Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0
Free 3D modeling tool
Friday, June 4, 2010
Daily Links 04/06/2010
Note: Content under development means they haven't actually written the requirements yet.
Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout
Custom Per-Page Transitions in Windows Phone 7
A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application
Win a JustMock License
Creating A Flexible Surface Effect : Silverlight 4
Step-by-Step Command Binding in Silverlight 4
Separating Content and Presentation with the ContentControl
Silverlight Designs
PushButton
Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
SilverlightContrib for Windows Phone
The only things I had to remove from the lib was the MouseWheelHelper, and ClipboardHelper, so it wasn't a train smash.
Here's the lib for those who might need it (have yet to see if it actually works, but I don't see why not).
I've renamed the assembly, so it won't get confused with other versions.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Visual Studio Editor - Ctrl+Arrow navigation not working
Visual Studio Menu:
Tools | Options
On the left menu:
Environment | Keyboard
Click the reset button on the top right.
... so simple I should have thought of it sooner :|
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Daily Links 22/05/2010
Simultaneously calling multiple methods on a WCF service from silverlight
Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh!
Silverlight for Windows Phone
Silverlight 4 training
Silverlight Tip of the Day #7 - Localized Resources
How to work with the Silverlight BusyIndicator?
Drag and Drop Operation in Silverlight ListBox
C# 4.0 - Beginners look into parallel programming
Self-Tracking Entities in Silverlight
Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4
Why You Shouldn’t Expose Your Entities Through Your Services
Mapping a skydrive folder in windows explorer
Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with Tons of Features to Seriously Take on Gmail
My Visual Studio Theme
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Daily Links 28/04/2010
Learning MEF in Silverlight 4 and .NET 4
Silverlight Tip of the Day #6 - Toast Notifications
Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification
Spec Explorer 2010 Released - model-based testing tool from VS
VS 2010 Dark Theme
My personal dark fonts
Windows Phone 7 in 7 (Tutorials)
Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy
Microsoft Has Released Enterprise Library 5.0
Now packaged with Unity 2.0 - Microsoft's Dependency Injection Tool
My top 5 free VS 2010 extension picks
Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Daily Links 17/04/2010
Silverlight 4 Toolkit download - VS2010
New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today's Silverlight 4 RTW!
Creating and Handling Faults in Silverlight
Obfuscating Silverlight (for free)
Announcing the release of Entity Framework 4
POCOs + Model-First Design = Schweeeet :)
Sync your Silverlight out-of-browser application data without service but with Dropbox
My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Daily Links 13/04/2010
Visual Studio 2010 RTM NOT compatible with Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP
A Scalable Orb Panel-Button-Thingy
Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!
Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Software & Resources from Microsoft
Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4
Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications
JustMock - new mocking framework from Telerik that allows mocking of anything (including static methods and sealed classes)
Brewers Theorem (CAP)
Outlining requirements of Consistency, Availability and Partitioning of distributed systems.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Daily Links 30/03/2010
Silverlight 4 INotifyDataErrorInfo
Comparison of HTTP polling duplex and net.tcp performance in Silverlight 4 RC
Silverlight 4 isn't fully cross platform
Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved
The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Released at Mix
Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7
Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator
JetBrains to launch code coverage tool
List of free applications
48 best free software downloads from Microsoft
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
SIlverlight 4 RC, RIA Services and Windows Phone 7
A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC
Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application
Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development
Silverlight for Windows Phone site
Windows Phone Developer Portal
Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 unveiled
Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM
Monday, March 15, 2010
Some Mobile GPS Development Links
Configuring the GPS Intermediate Driver
GPS Intermediate Driver for Windows Mobile (and getting it to work!)
GPS Tracking with Windows Mobile 5.0+
Creating Applications that Utilize GPS
GPS Application
Most of these posts seem to be quite old. Feel free to comment some more recent web articles on the subject...
Daily Links 15/03/2010
Silverlight profiler for Silverlight
Can profile silverlight 2 & 3 apps as well, although you'll have to buy the commercial licence to be able to do so.
It's free version can be used on full and compact framework versions.
Context Sensitive History (SL4)
Setting up icons for a Silverlight OOB application
Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback
Weak Event Pattern
Simple Weak Event Listener for Silverlight
Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API
Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC)
Monday, February 1, 2010
Daily Links 01/02/2010
Bing Maps Developer Sheet
Use Silverlight to resize images and increase compression BEFORE uploading
Incorporating Video into a Silverlight 4 Application
Silverlight Client for Facebook available
More Silverlight Performance Goodness
Data Performance and Fault Strategies in Silverlight 3
Creating and Handling Faults in Silverlight
Creating a Simple IoC Container
Multiple Return points ARE bad
Something I see all too often
Making NCloak fool Reflector
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Daily Links 21/01/2010
Silverlight: About validation when binding to custom forms - Part 2 using Silverlight 4
Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services
Silverlight 4's New Notification Windows
If you only need to unzip files in silverlight
If you need zip compression as well
Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher
Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective
TFS Branching Guide 2010
Free Todo List Application
Ideal for maintain programming task list (as well as more general stuff)
What I found quite handy was the ability to group tasks, and stop \ start timers on a task level.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Daily Links 04/01/10
Bing Maps in Silverlight
Geo-Coding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight
Duplex WCF Bindings in Silverlight
Falling Snow in Silverlight
Silverlight's Big Image Problem (and What You Can Do About It)
Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping
POCO Proxies Part 1
The PowerShell of the Future
Kanban vs Scrum
alternative to scrum when business needs change so frequently, you can't commit to sprint goals without them changing mid-sprint