Daily Links 6 Apr 2018

A cross-platform library for the processing of image files; written in C# 

Automatic Unit Testing in .NET Core plus Code Coverage in Visual Studio Code

Get started building .NET web apps that run in the browser with Blazor

Xamarin.Tip – iOS Pill Button (with Storyboard Support)

5 Key Trello Boards For That #StartupLife

Local File Storage Using Xamarin.Forms

Install Redis on Windows 10

Add Cloud Storage to Xamarin Apps with Azure Blob Storage

Flutter – The new kid on the block

Xamarin.iOS Snippet: Create custom transitions

Architecting your app http service – Consuming rest APIs

C#: Why you should use ConfigureAwait(false) in your library code

User input validation in Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Tip – Build Your Own AccordionView in Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Tip – Updating a Xamarin.Forms Button Style When Disabled

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 15/08/2010

Some Handy WP7 tutorials from AfricanGeek

How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Get Early User Feedback for Your Windows Phone Application

TiltContentControl for Windows Phone

Silverlight On Mobile : Charting on Windows Phone 7

A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7

Versioning issues with optional parameters

Visual Nunit 2010

Daily Links 10/07/2009

My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs - Part 1

Silverlike
Blog on free silverlight controls and tutorials

Having a PollingDuplex service and any other WCF service in the same website causes Silverlight calls to be slow

What's New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part III - Service-Discovery Feature

Development and Build Environments

Ruining your Test Automation Strategy.
Some thoughts on test automation

Licensing a commercial product

Comparing Windows 7 features

Daily Links 22/01/2009

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper
:)

Unit Testing File I/O Operations

Fun with ItemsControl
Sometimes when you think you need a ListBox control, you actually only need the ItemsControl.

Silverlight User Control Inheritance

Silverlight Docking and Ribbon controls

NCover v3.0.9 beta is now available

NUnit 2.5 Beta 2 Release
"NUnit 2.5 moves on to its second beta release which now supports Theories, updates to the assertation helper, support for difference CLR versions and some changes the the GUI runner."
"includes pNUnit, an extended NUnit runner for distributed parallel tests"

Mono vs. .NET Framework: Public API Compatibility

Gotchas: Migration from IIS6 + SQL 2005 (32-bit) to IIS7 + SQL 2008 (64-bit)

Daily Links 18/01/2009

Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict

Silverlight Tips of the Day - Summary Outline
Mike Snow provides a contents post for all his "Silverlight Tip of the Day" posts

Extended Strongly Typed Resource Generator

Tab Navigation lost on Silverlight popup control - workaround

HOWTO: Create Vector-Based Backgrounds in WPF

XAML Guidelines released!

Avoid object initializers & the using statement - C# 3.0 Gotcha

TransactionScope and Unit Tests
Good post on handling DAL Integration Tests with transactions

Ora, The Region Alternative

Kodu - Simple Game Programming for kids from Microsoft Research

Daily Links 05/01/2009

Silverlight Toolkit Dec Release

Blacklight v2.0 (Dec08) is here!
Great opensource Silverlight effects library (and some WPF stuff)

Silverlight on a Desktop
Looks promising

MD5 Released for Silverlight by member of Microsoft CLR Security Team

Ayende's really impressed with this UI Mocking tool

WPF Test Helper Library
Commandline parsing API, Input API, UIA Utility API, Visual Verification API, WPF Dispatcher

Building a silverlight LOB Application - Part 5

BlendSense: XAML Intellisense for Expression Blend

Design and Testability
"Unit Testing - Solid Design == PAIN!" :)

How to Motivate Developers - A three step framework
Excellent article.

Daily Links 18/11/2008

Use styles for an editable silverlight combobox

AutoCompleteBox control / Worker Threads

Silverlight Glass Button

Combining different seperated presentation patterns
I think in "real-world" development this is a necessity.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

NUnitLite
NUnit for Compact Framework, Mono, embedded projects etc.
Was looking for something to run NUnit tests on my compact framework stuff, and this seemed to be the best solution available.

JetBrains Has Released IntelliJ IDEA 8
"Includes SQL, new refactorings, inspections, UML diagrams, JBoss Seam, better performance and more."
I work mostly in the .NET space these days, but my brief stint into the Java world taught me there is no better IDE for Java than IntelliJ

Daily Links 10/06/2008

Synch google calendar with outlook
$30 / year price tag :|

Upgrading to Silverlight Tools Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

Fixes for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 install / Visual Studio hassles

DocProject 1.11.0 RC
Works with SandCastle May Release (when it gets released)

MSDN Code Gallery
Handy for keeping up to date with code / utilities available for M$ software development products

Good article on using mock objects in unit testing

GhostDoc
Auto-generate xml documentation in C# code based on method name and paramters via a short-cut key. What I found really nice was that if you change the parameters / names etc., and press the short-cut key, it automatically corrects the xml documentation above the method definition. It also allows you to add custom rules to make the generation more intelligent.
Use this in conjunction with DocProject & Sandcastle, and you have a comprhensive code documentation system that has minimal impact on the productivity of the development team :)

I've come across some justifying leaving debug="true" in their asp.net web.config files for detail error message reasons. Here's why you shouldn't

Mobile Phone: XML Contacts Backup
"Useful for export, modify and re-import mass contacts files. XML Contacts Backup has nice interface very friendly and easy to use. It's always good to have your contacts backed up, why not in XML format for better accessibility and editing"

Daily Links 04/06/2008

Reharper 4.0 RC released

Why Enterprise Architecture is a Joke

Open source C#.NET applications

Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working?

Is Automated Software Testing Enough?

Propagating the ActivityId to a WCF service

On founding a software company - Rules, regulations and red-tape

Silverlight support for fullscreen apps

Some Great Free Winforms Controls - Krypton

10 Object Orientated Principles

A New Kind of Tiered Architecture

Castle ActiveRecord
ORM framework built on top of NHibernate. Simplifies persistence syntax :), but decorates objects with persistence attributes :|
All you wanted to know about ActiveRecord Part 1 & Part 2
Castle's ActiveRecord: Not for the Domain Purist in you...

Daily Links 09/05/2008

Unattended Installation for the .NET Framework 3.5

Unit testing events

Using NHibernate (years after I should have been)

New Team Foundation Server projects on CodePlex!

run remote desktop over multiple monitors
not 100% support, but better than nothing

FAQ: How do I prevent FxCop 1.36 from firing warnings against generated code?

Live Mesh
Get all your devices to speak the same language. Information access across multiple devices.

Convert svg graphics to xaml

Silverlight NUnit Projects
I was half way through doing the same thing when I came across this post. saved me some work :)

Daily Links 16/04/2008

xUnit RC3 Released
interesting UTF.
compare it to other UTFs
I really like the way it's implementation is more intuitive by using plain old classes with constructors and IDispose instead of tags. neat. simple.

MPlayer
XCopy media player (no installs) - has some issues playing AVI files with std players, this played them no problem.

Raising events using extension methods

Scott Guthrie April 11 Links

CRUD with Silverlight and N-Tier Architecture
Video blog showing simple change tracking over N-Tier architecture using LinQ and Silverlight

Share the config file between projects
The same methodology can be very powerful in sharing common source files between projects (eg: common server / silverlight client code logic, or common server / compact framework code logic) Obviously in this case the canonical version would have to reside in the subset framework.

Credit Card Validation - regular expressions

Using the "let" keyword to make LinQ queries more readable

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.

Daily Links - 25/10/2007

Are you ALT.NET?

How an open source developer transitioned to .NET

LinQ to SQL tutorial series by Scott Guthrie (pdf booklet format)

TDD - Rhino Mocks - Part 1 - Introduction

Decorator Pattern

Daily Links - 31/8/2007

using the .NET compact framework
A simple get-going tutorial for developing mobile applications using .NET Compact Framework

ReSharper UnitRun
Free addin for VS 2005 - highly recommended! supports NUnit & csUnit

Trivial Proxy
Cool (free for non-commercial use) tool to monitor network activity
I use it to monitor XML being passed from a client to my web services

Daily Links - 22/8/2007

Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

60 AJAX developer resources and tutorials

MbUnit + NUnitForms = MbUnitForms

...and finally something I think most of you have seen, but since I seem to be reminded of it on a daily basis, I thought I'd post it: