Daily Links - 30/04/2009

Silverlight 3 - Simple "Flip Control" built on PlaneProjection

Silverlight 3 - Simple Control for Online/Offline

Silverlight Count Down Control - Your days are counted

Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store
Comprehensive article on storing data to the client file system

Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 - Introduction

Construct domain models faster than ever before!
ORM I am seriously considering for my home project. A little birdy told me there is some sweet silverlight support coming in their next release which is due shortly.
The big win for me is the Domain Driven Design which they follow in the article highlighted above, added to this Mindscape's "convention over configuration" development approach, and excellent price entry point (which is esp important for developers like me working at home on a tight budget)

Getting your Func along with your Action on

All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us
Discussion on Repository vs Command Query Seperation (CQS) Patterns

RefCard for Scrum
Handy summary of the scrum process

Agile Adoption - decreasing time to market

StatSVN
"generates various tables and charts describing the project development"

Shelving Subversion
Would be nice if this mechanism was more actively supported by the SVN toolsets. I want my "Shelve" and "Preserve Pending Changes" button and checkbox in Ankh!

Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server

Daily Links - 22/04/2009

MouseWheel Behavior for Silverlight

Silverlight installation experience guidance posted

Creating application with .NET RIA Services Part 5 - Sorting and Filtering data

Silverlight Unit Test Runner for Resharper - January 2009 Update

Saving data-objects to Isolated Storage in Silverlight

It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors!

Silverlight 3 - Experimenting with WCF’s Binary XML Encoder

Animation easing and the "bounce" effect

Silverlight drag-and-drop helper classes

Flicker Effect - Opacity Masks in Blend

NBuilder
"rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types"

Setting up Subversion 1.6 Server

Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code

Daily Links 24/11/2008

Introducing TransitionContentControl
"write a very simple contentControl, that allows you to transition your old content with your new content"
Cool :)

Dynamically Loading an assembly at Runtime and calling its methods
Check out the comment as well. Handy for getting a start to a plug-in application architecture

Producing readable log4net output

Visual SVN 1.6 released
If you're looking for a free SVN IDE plugin for VS, then head on over to Ankh - muchly improved over the last year or so.

Practicing Agility in Application Architecture
"Microsoft has published a How-To Design Using Agile Architecture guide under patterns & practices providing detailed guidelines to follow when architecting an application, the Agile way."

WCF REST Starter Kit Hands On Labs
REST Services seems to be making a bit of a revival - here's some help to get started.

Setting up Subversion on Windows Home Server
Simple as 1-2-3

Daily Links 28/10/2008

Creating Drop Shadows in Silverlight Using Nested Borders

Loading assemblies dynamically in silverlight

Using Isolated Storage in Silverlight

Silverlight Tip of the Day #65 - Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to your Controls

Silverlight 2 and Localisation/Globalisation
seems by default silverlight gets culture settings from the OS, and not from the browser as I had expected

Neptune SMTP Development Server
"a SMTP server that did not relay the message and allowed me to query for messages and their content"

SVN-Monitor is out!
Free full-featured user-front-end to SubVersion for Windows.

Building an Error Icon in WPF

Singletonitis

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Daily Links 08/10/2008

App Arch How Tos Posted to CodePlex

Common Service Locator Library - IServiceLocator Interface Abstracting IoC Containers

Faults and Exceptions when using Web Services in Silverlight 2

Dave's Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2 released
"set of easily customisable control templates"

XAML Power Toys 3.1.0.2 Has Silverlight 2 Support!

Free property grid control for WinForms Development
ala property grid in visual studio

An initialization pattern to avoid problems calling virtual method in constructor

Installing VisaulSVN Subversion

A few thoughts on the role of software architects

Master Complex Builds with MSBuild

MSBuild Extension Pack
"...provides a collection of over 170 MSBuild tasks designed for the .net 3.5 Framework"

Mono 2.0 is out!
Write .NET code for OS other than Windows

Daily Links - 23/11/2007

What is the MVC noise all about, anyway?
Pt 1
Pt 2
Pt 3

New Compression Features in SQL Server 2008

Snippet Editor for Visual Studio 2005/2008

Linux install for newbies
"Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions"

Optimise SQL Server queries with these advanced tuning techniques

DLinq (Linq to SQL) Performance

Cruise Control.NET and VS 2008 web projects

SVN Server
"everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform."

Reducing Server Load and Network Traffic in REST/Ajax Architectures

Exploring one of M$ AJAX's often overlooked features

Daily Links - 10/9/2007

Gaphor - Free UML modeling tool
Supports UML 2.0 standard

Overview - ASP.NET 3.5

Is JSON just for AJAX?

10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Determining when last a Stored Proc has been altered (SQL Server)

comparison of M$ Ajax and Gaia Web Widgets Framework
This article specifically compares data across the wire for an AJAX operation.

Free windows forms component library - Krypton Toolkit
Seems to have a number of office UI laf components. Does seem to be a bit of a plug for their commercial components though.

Making Windows Forms thread safe
Link 1
Link 2
In order to make windows forms have a responsive UI when implementing process code, you need to execute the code on a separate thread. These articles deal with updating the UI from a different thread.

The .NET answer to Google's GWT - Open source AJAX framework extending WinForms over ASP.NET
Not really comparable to GWT - since GWT operates with client-side javascript, and
VWG is server-side Ajax, but anyway - that's what the title says.
VWG seems to implement a different kind of Ajax to the other Ajax framework implementations - server-side Ajax for web UI
Check out an article on it here
...and here's an article on creating your first VWG application