Daily Links 20/09/2010

Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

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

Daily Links 12/09/2010

Silverlight UI Element Leak tester
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.

Alternative Source Control Management for .NET

TortoiseSvn

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

Silverlight Service Pack Released
Resolves some rather serious memory leaks

WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified

Microsoft to publish extra code to make third party WP7 apps more consistent
linked: updated Tilt Effect

Silverlight Media Player (2.0/3.0/4.0)

Managing Trial Applications for Windows Phone 7