Daily Links 10 Jul 2013

Windows 8.1 new developer API tidbits

Updated Windows Phone Store Badges

Windows 8.1 - New Features in XAML

How to monitor upload/download SkyDrive operations with Live SDK for Windows Store apps

Saying Hello To jQuery Mobile

Building Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Create a Windows Phone 8 Company Hub App

Windows 8 Time Picker for Windows Phone

Build talk of the week: Beautiful apps at any size on any screen

Top Reasons Developers Should Use Windows Azure Mobile Services

LIGHTNING MEMORY-MAPPED DATABASE
Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Partial

.NET Technology Guidance
Also some specific material covering silverlight migration paths

Windows Phone 8 Background Agents

Essential Knockout.js

Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening

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)

Daily Links 17/02/2009

Creating a generic validation framework

Integrating Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 into Silverlight applications

Managing Dynamic Content Delivery In Silverlight, Part 2
Covers dynamic content management using Isolated storage as a permanent cache on the client

Component1 Silverlight xap Optimizer
Compressed my 1Meg xap to 717KB (winrar compression was 890KB)

Application Architecture Videos

Is the Relational Database Doomed?

Moonlight 1.0 released
Silverlight for Linux

It seems un-installing VS 2008 isn't quite as simple as one might think

Managed Custom Actions with Visual Studio 2010 and WiX 3.0
"WiX is much more flexible than the Visual Studio Setup Project currently available today and it supports managed code to interact with the Windows Installer"

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress
Free Winforms and ASP Controls from DevExpress

Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile 6.5

Daily Links 27/01/2009

Creating a Navigation Bar In Silverlight

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

Total View Validation
Another approach to validation for wpf - gr8 article.

Application Architecture guide 2.0 released

SQL SERVER - Rules for Optimizining Any Query - Best Practices for Query Optimization
...read the comments

All Microsoft SDKs in one place!

Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid

Free download: Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool

Mono 2.2 may overtake .NET in some critical categories
I don't know about "critical categories", but it's nice to see the Mono Project isn't just riding on the .NET framework coat tails.

Ways I’ve increased my productivity

Free neural network courses on-line for Java & C#
Course started 26 Jan

Daily Links 14/10/2008

Microsoft® Silverlight: Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1)
Silverlight is finally RTW!

Silverlight 2.0: A Double Click Manager
Silverlight doesn't inherently support the double-click event on it's controls - this is a nice work-around

Announcing the Test Driven Development Productivity Plugin for Resharper

Karvonite - Agile Persistence Framework
"non-invasive to your code and requires no interfaces or base classes for saving objects" - sounds promising

R# productivity & quality plugins
Agent Smith & Agent Johnson

Object Oriented Architecture As It Should Have Been - Agile Architecture

.NET 3.5. SP1 best practices - When to use the ASP.NET MVC Framework

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 29/07/2008

Visual Studio Item Templates
create custom file templates to give you a head start in implementing derived classes / patterns

Create PDF Files on the fly with C# and PDFSharp

Agilo for Scrum
Demo movie
"Agilo for Scrum is a simple, web-based and straightforward tool to support the Scrum"
"Agilo is distributed as Open Source Software"

Default Architecture: Layers
Interesting article by Ayende touching on most common architecture layering implementations.

Patterns I Hate #1: Singleton
I'm one of the guilty - singletons seem to spread like a virus in my code :|. One of the most convincing arguments not to use them is testability, so if you're going TDD, singletons are going to give you some roadblocks.

In-State Animation with Silverlight
One of the best things about silverlight is how it makes control animation so easy, even non-designers can use it :)

Daily Links 20/06/2008

DevExpress has released Beta 1 of it's FREE Silverlight DataGrid
* Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
* Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
* Comprehensive Summary Computation support against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
* Column Movement
* Column Resizing
* Column Auto-Width
* Row Editing
* Row Preview (with animation)
* Template Support (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers)
* Auto Height Support for cells, headers, and totals.
* Virtual StackPanel Row Container (simply means we are able to handle an unlimited number of rows)
* Focused Row and Focused Cell
* Multi-Row Selection
* Cell Text Wrapping
* Vertical/Horizontal Lines
* Multiple column types/editors
The Source code is also available.

CLR Fun Stuff: How is my C# code converted into machine instructions?

We Don't Need No Architects
Making a case for the software architect

To JSON or not to JSON?
A comparitive performance look at Json Serialization vs standard xml serialization using WCF 3.5

ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight using Behaviors

Silverlight wallpaper
...for all the silverlight geeks out there

Daily Links - 25/9/2007

Quaere: LINQ Arrives for Java

BDD, TDD, and the other Double D's

11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE tips and tricks to make you a more productive developer

Hard Questions about architects

7 ways to hire smarter programmers

Open Source .NET Application Generator
Brief overview open source code generation tools

Daily Links - 6/9/2007

Programmer or Developer?
An article on the difference between the two.

Evolutionary Software Architecture
follow-up to previous linked post Do we need Software architects?

LinQPad
Query databases / objects etc with LinQ instead of SQL syntax

CodeSmith
Template-driven code generator (supports any language)

Merging .NET assemblies using ILMerge
Gilma - GUI for ILMerge Application
- this should come in handy for XCopy deployment ie: merge all your dependancies into the exe assembly

Daily Links - 3/9/2007

A completely subjective comparison of Ajax libraries for ASP.NET

Comparison of Java & .NET Generics

A healthy discussion on the role of software architects - do we really need them?

20 Tips to improve ASP.NET Application Performance

Use of the PayPal payment system in ASP.NET

Overriding ToString() for easier debugging