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entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Daily Links 13/03/2011

A WP7 App: The Numbers
An app developers shares some sales numbers and lessons learnt.

WP7 Application Bar Icons

Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight)

Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library)

Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released

A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7

12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls

Mindscape Phone Elements released!

MEA countries - submit apps to marketplace via Yalla Apps

Using DockPanel in WP7

Testing Network Availability

SharpComments
Displays color comments in Visual Studio 2010, C#.

Using NuGet with Windows Phone Applications
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Visual Studio, Windows Phone

Monday, March 7, 2011

Daily Links 07/03/2011

Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight

Fluent Assertions
Fluent test assertions.Supports MSTest, NUnit and XUnit.

ReSharper 6 Bundles Decompiler, Free Standalone Tool to Follow
Interesting timing after Reflector from RedGate has now become a payed app.

Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask

WP7: Application performance and tuning

Windows Phone Cryptographic Storage opensource project

New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released

Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library

Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer

Simple menu for your WP7 application

TradableQualityHypothesis

There’s Only One Valid Metric For Developer Productivity And Quality

Creating Visual Studio Code Snippets
... and here's a VS Extension to make designing them easier
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Daily Links 19/02/2011

Silverlight 4.0.60129.0 GRD3 Runtime update KB2495644

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 with SP1

Sterling Object-Oriented Database 1.0 RTM

Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #6
How to detect if you application is overlayed by another UI shell.

Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1

WP7 Element Binding samples

Windows Phone Silverlight Application Faster Load Time

Free win phone 7 book

Using the TabControl on Windows Phone 7

What I Learned In WP7-Issue 17
Official link icons to your application

Moonlight 4 Preview 1 is out

Interview questions for Senior Software Engineers
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Friday, February 11, 2011

Daily Links 11/02/2011

WCF - Silverlight debugging tips

Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control

Windows Phone Developer Tools January Update
Install the developer tools and the visual studio update

Styles in Silverlight: Everything a Developer Needs To Know

Using a Channel Factory in Silverlight (instead of adding a Service Reference). With cows.

Performance issue with progress bar in windows phone

Silverlight Memory Leak, Part 1

Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit

Profiling and Logging Entity Framework Queries

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace stats

Salted Password Hashing

WP7 InputPrompt in depth

Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX

WP7Contrib: Location Push Model

Free Silverlight Controls from MindScape

The case for the Bindable Application Bar for Windows Phone 7

Avoid ObservableCollection Memory Leak
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Daily Links 03/021/2011

Reading barcodes from your WP7 device

Visual Studio Spec Explorer Power Tool
comes with UML Extension as well

Quickly building a trial mode for a Windows Phone application

Useful value converters

Windows Phone GPS Emulator
Well finally! Here's a download link
Pity is seems a little buggy. Map Images take forever to load, and it crashed when I tried using the search function.

Localize a Silverlight 4 Application

Silverlight for Windows Phone free e-book

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

WP7 working with Images: Content vs Resource build action

[Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban

Windows Phone Image Button
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Labels: DailyLinks, Scrum, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Daily Links 26/01/2011

Windows Phone 7 MUST HAVE Toolkits

Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started

Silverlight extensions library
"enable Silverlight 4 out-of-browser applications to interact with cool Windows 7 features"

Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo

Silverlight XAP file optimization

WP7 working with VisualStates: How to make a ToggleSwitch from CheckBox

WP7 Developer Guide from Patterns and Practices Team

On Testing Windows Phone 7 Applications - Part I: The Simple Stuff

Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22

SQL SERVER 2008 - Missing Index Script - Download

Entity Framework GetById

Entity Framework Tutorials

HyperCam
Free video capture software
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Daily Links 10/01/2011

Automatic Implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged on POCO Objects

Mono for Android

WP7 Capabilities

Detecting Users Win7 Mobile Theme Color

Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines - Cheat Sheet

Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend

Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client

500 Metro Style WP7 Icons

The Weekly Source Code 58 - Generating (Database) Test Data with AutoPoco and Entity Framework Code First

Delta Gaming Engine
Develop games for multiple platforms (Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android , Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360, Linux and Mac) using C# .NET!
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Labels: DailyLinks, Game Development, SilverLight, Windows Phone
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