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entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Daily Links 15/09/2011

Windows Phone Power Tools

132 more Windows Phone Application Bar Icons

Windows Phone Augmented Reality Starter Kit Video

A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7
How to run NUnit tests on Windows Phone 7

Context Menu for Silverlight - FREE

WP7: How to add an EULA page to your application

Xaml Sessions at BUILD

Telerik's HTML5 UI Framework
"delivers everything needed for client-side, jQuery-powered development in one integrated, compact package."

I know what you’re thinking, and you’re wrong.
Thoughts on Win 8 + the future of Silverlight & WPF

Windows 8: What you Need to Know

Migrating a Windows Phone 7 app to XAML

Windows 8 geolocation API: First run

Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview as bootable VHD

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - Now Available for MSDN Subscribers

New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows 8, Windows Phone

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Daily Links 07/09/2011

Silverlight 5 RC available for developers

Silverlight 5 Quick Tip: 64-bit Support

SL5 Elevated Trust Settings for Out of Browser and In Browser

Free GUI Isolated Storage Explorer Tool

WoVS Default Browser Switcher (Visual Studio Extension)

Silverlight Keyboard Controls
The OS Keyboard for touch screen silverlight development is a bit intrusive.
Here are some sample silverlight versions to user instead.

Silverlight How to Command Control

Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API

Restore and Preserve Page State for Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone

The Big List of What’s New or Improved in Silverlight 5

Simplifying Async Networking with Tasks in Silverlight 5

Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone - Storing the auth data and making sure the user is remembered

WP7 Marketplace statistics
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Daily Links 01/09/2011

11 hard truths about HTML5

Jump Start: Windows Phone "Mango"

Report: Microsoft shows off quad-core Windows slate
"Microsoft Enterprise Technology Architect Patrick Hevesi noted that there are quad-core Windows slates coming later this year that will offer eight hours of battery life, a 10-inch HD screen and 1080p playback."

My MVVM tombstone pattern

Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet?

Creating objects - Perf implications
Unfortunately FormatterServices.GetUninitializaedObject() is not available in Silverlight - boooo!

Localizing your Windows Phone 7 application (Enums and Finished project)

AgFx = Developing Data Driven Windows Phone 7 App Joy

WP7 by the numbers….Exclusive Aussie Developer ROI Calculator

Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Cheat Sheet

3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango

29 Ways to make your wp7 app killer and make money

Isolated Storage Explorer for Visual Studio
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Labels: DailyLinks, SilverLight, WP7

Friday, August 26, 2011

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
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Labels: C#, DailyLinks, SilverLight, Windows Phone

Monday, August 22, 2011

Daily Links 22/08/2011

Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011: Overview and Getting Started

How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango

iPhone styled WP7 apps

Progress on WP7 Icons

Create PDF in Silverlight

Using Inversion of Control in MonoDroid Applications

WP7: Loading Optimizations - How I optimized my loading time with almost 3 seconds

Reusable WCF Service Data Access Layer for WP7, MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Mercurial Cheat Sheet

Moonlight on Android

EF 4.2 Beta 1 Available

Greenshot
Free Screenshot tool
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Labels: DailyLinks, Entity Framework, MonoDroid, SilverLight, WP7

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Daily Links 11/08/2011

Learn how to build your own Augmented Reality apps in Mango

Windows Phone 7 Mango Augmented Reality Tutorial

Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic

Smooth Streaming on Windows Phone 7

Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough

Passing parameters to a Silverlight application

Complete Silverlight Business Application using MVVM

Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor

Speech Recognition

Web Hosting Deals

Ten Year Agile Retrospective: How We Can Improve In The Next Ten Years
by Jeff Sutherland - co-founder of Scrum

Can Agile Software Development Deliver a Great User Experience?

8 Principles of Continuous Delivery

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Labels: Agile, DailyLinks, SilverLight, WP7

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Daily Links 28/07/2011

EF 4.1 Update 1 Released

Code First Migrations: Walkthrough of August 2011 CTP

Coding4Fun Toolkit – now with in-app tiles

MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part2

Mindscape LightSpeed Free eBook available (not LightSwitch… but for the LightSpeed ORM…)

Windows Phone 7: Pivot Page Indicator Control

Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox

Posting Twitter Status Update from Windows Phone

Microsoft Releases 'Mango' SDK Beta 2 Refresh

Some highlights of new features in the Mango Beta 2 Refresh update (SDK)

Localized Windows Phone App - Start to Finish

Windows Phone Page State–Step by Step

Windows Phone Mango build 7712 released to developers

Convention Based View Model Location using Ninject in a MVVM/Silverlight Application

Windows Phone (Mango) DB Engines Performance Testing
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Labels: DailyLinks, Entity Framework, SilverLight, WP7
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