Daily Links 30/03/2010

Silverlight 4 releasing next month

Silverlight 4 INotifyDataErrorInfo

Comparison of HTTP polling duplex and net.tcp performance in Silverlight 4 RC

Silverlight 4 isn't fully cross platform

Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved

The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Released at Mix

Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7

Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator

JetBrains to launch code coverage tool

List of free applications

48 best free software downloads from Microsoft

Daily Links 11/09/2009

A Plethora of Silverlight Behaviors/Triggers

Get up to speed on SketchFlow FAST

Silverlight and Web Analytics - the Next Generation

Silverlight and localizing string data

Improving the performance of web services in SL3 Beta

Accessing Security and Authentication in Silverlight using .NET RIA Services

5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight

Export to pdf firefox extension

Bug Shooting
"free screenshot utility that was developed for software tester" "Screenshots can also be sent to Skype or a default E-Mail application"

Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Cleaning System volume information for Windows Vista
You can also use windows disk cleanup utility, which will at least save your last restore point.

Telerik Offers Free Developer Team Management Tools
Invaluable if you're using TFS for your work item management. (Supports scrum template)

Daily Links 13/07/2009

Silverlight 3 RTW Released

Silverlight RIA Services July Preview
now with go-live licence

Silverlight Toolkit July Release

Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service

20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex Chat and Realtime Stock Updates

Creating a ComboBox Style AutoCompleteBox Control in Silverlight

EntitySpaces, Silverlight, and WCF a Fantastic Combination

Everything search
Search files and folders on your NTFS files instantly. It's not an indexing service, so it won't hog your resource like Google Desktop / Windows Search. From the forum: "When I read about it in PCWorld, I thought it might be worth a look. When I saw that it did wildcards (and was portable!), I figured it was definitely worth a try. When I read that it did REGULAR EXPRESSIONS I was certain I wanted it. And when it indexed all my huge volumes in a couple seconds, I nearly had a stroke"

Daily Links 10/04/2008

Setting up Subversion on Windows
"get a small Subversion server and client going on Windows. It'll take all of 30 minutes"
Handy for home development (those of us that can't afford Team Foundation Server)
Also consider VisualSVN Server

Unit Testing with Silverlight - the FULL article

Life of a software project (graph)
ie: less code + less programmers = better software...and herein lies the value of using few good developers (those who can get the same functionality from less lines of code while still remaining understandable / maintainable) rather than many average developers.

Using WinMerge with TFS
Replace the sucky default TFS merge tool with WinMerge

FolderLock
"password-protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures and documents in seconds"

Unlocker
Got a bit tired of inetinfo locking folders I needed access to. (restarting IIS and machine doesn't release the lock!) This is a handy tool that can release locks on files / folders from a simple right-click menu option.