Daily Links 23/03/2011

Understanding the Role of Commanding in Silverlight 4 Applications

Forget These Not (WP7 submissions)

A Smarter TextBlock Control for WP7

Build great Windows Phone applications the easy way!

Windows Phone 7 Icon Set : metro second edition

Windows Phone 7 app tips: drawing my location on a map

Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate with Go-Live (with Final Release to follow in a month)

NUnit for Silverlight updated: NUnit 2.5.5, Silverlight 4

RC of Entity Framework 4.1 (which includes EF Code First)

Lighthouse: Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released

Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight

Stop Using Mocks

Daily Links 13/03/2011

A WP7 App: The Numbers
An app developers shares some sales numbers and lessons learnt.

WP7 Application Bar Icons

Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight)

Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library)

Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released

A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7

12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls

Mindscape Phone Elements released!

MEA countries - submit apps to marketplace via Yalla Apps

Using DockPanel in WP7

Testing Network Availability

SharpComments
Displays color comments in Visual Studio 2010, C#.

Using NuGet with Windows Phone Applications

Daily Links 07/03/2011

Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight

Fluent Assertions
Fluent test assertions.Supports MSTest, NUnit and XUnit.

ReSharper 6 Bundles Decompiler, Free Standalone Tool to Follow
Interesting timing after Reflector from RedGate has now become a payed app.

Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask

WP7: Application performance and tuning

Windows Phone Cryptographic Storage opensource project

New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released

Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library

Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer

Simple menu for your WP7 application

TradableQualityHypothesis

There’s Only One Valid Metric For Developer Productivity And Quality

Creating Visual Studio Code Snippets
... and here's a VS Extension to make designing them easier