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entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Daily Links 09/04/2011

Creating WP7 Custom Theme - Best Practices

New Features Announced for Silverlight 5

Windows Phone 7 - Creating Trial Applications

Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started

Mono Android and iPhone Updates

Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Webservices

WP7 – How To Extend ListBox When Reaching Last Item

Coding4Fun Phone Tools Update
Now supporting NuGet
Controls:
About Prompt
Input Prompt
Progress Overlay
Round Button
Round Toggle Button
Memory Counter
Message Prompt
Password Prompt
TimeSpan Picker
Toast Prompt

How to implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it?
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Monday, April 4, 2011

Daily Links 04/04/2011

An ADO.NET SQL Helper Class

Windows Phone 7http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Quick Tip #25: Safely modify the colors of your application

Silverlight on the iPad

WP7 Tombstone Helper Library

Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK

5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing

Jeff Wilcox’s "Metro" design guide for developers, v1.00

Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App

Microsoft Expression Blend Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Phone 7

Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development

WP7 TombstoneHelper

WP7 Screenshot Tool

Theme Forcing for Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
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Labels: ADO.NET, DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Unit Testing, Windows Phone

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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