Daily Links 18 Apr 2016

PayPal Integration Part 1: PayPal Payment Buttons

Introducing Xamarin Workbooks

The Evolution of Interactive C#

Xamarin Workbook

XAML edit and continue for WPF & UWP with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Getting started with Microsoft Bot Framework

Remote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service

High performance message processing with disruptor.net

Modern Tech Stack for ASP.NET Apps

Entity Framework Code First Migrations

BOLSTERING HTTPS SECURITY

How to host your own NuGet Server and Package Feed

Nexus Repository Manager (free)
Docker ; Nuget ; npm ; Bower support

FreshEssentials for Xamarin.Forms – The must-have nuget for Forms

Adding smooth transitions when navigating in your UWP app

Using Xamarin Forms Effects

Daily Links 26/08/2011

Free WP7 Chart Control
Proving to be a bit buggy so far, but at least you can get hold of the source code to fix it in the meantime.

Windows Phone 7 Iconography

Migrating to Mango – Developer View. Part 1 & 2

Two lessons from a frustrating Mango submission

Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.4.6
Now with additional Tile control
New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.6 officially released: cool new components and lots of fixes

WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part I The View

Using Bouncy Castle on Windows Phone 7
Bouncy Castle = Java Cryptography lib port

WP7: Marketplace Test Kit Walkthrough

Windows Phone MVC / MVVM hybrid framework

WP: Tips for Watching Your Data Usage

"is" vs "GetType" vs "typeof"

Compare a generic type to it's default value

Daily Links - 03/06/2009

Silverlight 3 to launch July 10

Silverlight Stopwatch class in C#

UppercuT - The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework

Implementing the [ThreadSafe] Singleton Pattern in C#

T4 Editor plus UML-Style modeling tools for Visual Studio 2008/2010

Indian MVP Inspired by Silverlight 3!
some handy tutorial links

using SharpZipLib compression in conjunction with isoloated storage

.NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere!

WCF Binary Encoding with SL3

A simpler, conventions based DependencyProperty structure for silverlight using CustomControlBase

Daily Links 09/02/2009

Why Silverlight is the future

A Silverlight 2 Ad Rotator

Using C# Yield for Readability and Performance

Auto mocking Explained

Resharper an OutOfMemory Exceptions

Building a Nant Script -- Part 3: Adding Code Coverage w/ NCover

C# 4.0 features

WPF : Circular Progress Bar

Creating Rich Interactive Learning Materials Using Microsoft Semblio

xceed realtime zip for silverlight

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 21/07/2008

Build custom skins for your silverlight UI

Domain Centric Validation with the Notification Pattern

Assigning Responsibilities in a Model View Presenter Architecture

Project management with Visual SVN Server and Trac

Silverlight 2 roadmap questions

The C# 4.0 team talks about the upcoming features of C# 4.0 (Channel 9 video link)

C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team
Concurrency, Dynamic language features etc.

Guide To Effective Test Driven Development
Tips for effective TDD

Some advice for getting started with TDD

Switching browsers for ASP.NET debugging

Vidyano
Dev tool to automate creation of WPF applications - currently in CTP

The 8 ball problem
Fun logic problem

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 18/06/2008

Firefox 3 released!

Free open-source charting controls for silverlight

Free Datagrid (with source) for Silverlight from DevExpress
Keep and eye on this page for release details

What a developer needs from their manager

Scrum in 90 minutes - the presentation

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 basic ClientAccessPolicy.xml file

Silverlight Cream
Handy Collection of silverlight articles (cont. updated)

Silverlight Articles on .NET Slackers
latest mostly to do with silverlight animation

Prefix-casting versus as-casting in C#
...was wondering about that :)

RefCard to the 23 original GoF Design Patterns
requires dzone registration

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Need to convert video?
Check out these links

Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive

Lies we tell kids

Daily Links 02/06/2008

free icons

programmer's bill of rights
old post, but still relevant

Announcing the release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#
"his tool is known internally within Microsoft as StyleCop, and has been used for many years now to help teams enforce a common set of best practices for layout, readability, maintainability, and documentation of C# source code"
although if you have Resharper, you already have access to all of this functionality
HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis

Resharper was moaning at me for declaring a loop scope variable before the loop (old C++ practice), so I hunted around as to why (doesn't declaring a variable inside a loop impact performance?)
Found this article: basically, declared inside or out, the same IL is generated under the hood (because variables are passed in the method header) - so it's better to declare inside the loop, for readability and scope reasons.

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Silverlight links post

Daily Links 25/02/2008

ScottGu has just posted some handy tutorials on the soon-to-be-released silverlight 2.0


NSpecify
an interesting look at evolving NUnit testing

Code performance analysis in VS 2008

Data-Driven testing with VS 2008

How to follow DotKicks.com efficiently
plus handy DNK widgets

Digitally signing an XML Document and verifying the signature

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability

another blog post on the subject

C# .NET Gmail Tools

Do try...catch blocks hurt runtime performance?
short answer.. no, it doesn't.

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
mostly to do with UI design

Daily Links 11/02/2008

TDD for Beginners Series
for those of us who keep meaning to get into TDD and would like a simple place to start

C# Sorting evolution
Illustrates the improvements of C# from 1.0 - 3.0 using sorting as an example.

Calculate the distance between 2 geoCodes (lat / long) in C# / Javascript

Visual Studio 2005 Addins for NAnt and NUnit

ShortGuid - a shorter and URL friendly Guid class in C#

Latest Link List from Scott Gu

Secured Subversion on Windows
using SSH withouth having to install Apache

I recently got locked out of my SQL 2005 using the sa account: to fix this, login using windows authentication, and run this query: "ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = 'yourPassword' UNLOCK"

Daily Links 23/01/2008

Free Professional Diff Tool from SourceGear

Attach to Asp.NET process with keyboard shortcut (custom VS macro)

ASP.NET web service tips - documentation
How to add custom help pages to your web services

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Debug into .NET framework source code :)

Visual Studio 2008 Multi-threaded debugging feature
Keep track of which thread is running what code in the IDE - neat

Rhino Mocks Hello World
very simple quick-start for using Rhino Mocks (framework for loading mock business objects into your unit tests)

Subsonic and MVC: Introducing Makai

Best C# web sites

WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5

I recently struggled a bit with getting my silverlight application to resize with the
browser using the following hook in C# code:
BrowserHost.Resize += new EventHandler(BrowserHost_Resize);
(placed in the Page_Loaded event handler of the main page.xaml)
The event just wouldn't fire when the browser resized :|
...until I discovered that you need to change the auto-generated
TestPage.html properties to the following: (specify percentages instead of pixel size)

.silverlightHost { width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Daily Links 16/01/2008

Wanted a C# MD5 encryption class for my Silverlight app (Silverlight doesn't include the .NET framework MD5 class)- here's a sample I found

C# Line Counter
"simple GUI-based file line counter for C# that took into consideration comments and empty lines"

Subsonic 2.1 Preview
Includes funky new query tool

Add or remove the www subdomain with an ASP.NET application

Making session state type-safe using generics

Creating custom LINQ provider using LinqExtender

Model View Presenter using Dependency Injection and Threading support

WCF Implementation of Publisher/Subscriber Model

Caching for SubSonic
Small helper class to add caching of objects using subsonic

Daily Links - 13/11/2007

Free Open Source JavaScript Calendar Control
Handy for an on-line calendar

Website development: 6 must-have pages

Deprecated methods in C#
mark method with:
[Obsolete("reason why")]

Deploying .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Applications with .cab and .msi Files

Deploying Mobile apps the easy way using Inno Setup

Javascript hide table row

JavaScript-XPath
"runs 10 times faster than Google Ajaxslt's xpath.js"

Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

Exception Handling in .NET 2.0

The uncommon features of C#

Daily Links - 24/8/2007

Add Google Maps to your .NET site in 10 minutes

The Yield statement in C#

Behaviour of "as" in C#:

Dependancy Injection from the trenches

How much interest is there in JavaFX?

Beware, the developer who isn't interested in development!

Web Service List
Quite a thorough and diverse listing of available web services.

... And to test calls to all those web services: free open-source tool for testing web services: SoapUI

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Toshiba 32Gig SD cards

Removing backgrounds quickly in photoshop