25 August 2009

 

 

http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/more-on-oslo-amp-data-programmability-merger/

http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2009/08/20/from-sketchflow-to-production.aspx

http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2009/08/20/uppercut-ndash-mark-an-application-executable-to-use-more-than.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2009/08/20/f-for-architects-hitting-the-sweet-spot.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/08/19/visual-studio-2010-performance-part-3-a-technical-update.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/08/18/all-expression-blend-samples-posted-to-the-expression-gallery.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/08/18/updated-compatible-with-windows-7-software-logo-for-rtm-has-new-ui.aspx

Backlight WPF / SL controls

Will check out, but some nifty designer focused controls for both WPF & SL at http://blacklight.codeplex.com/

Check out the showcase at  http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/

Fri 17th July 2009

WPF

Josh Smith has created yet another set of tooling for MVVM - http://mvvmfoundation.codeplex.com/

And Sacha Barber has started his own MVVM Framework "Cinch'" & series of articles - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/Cinch.aspx and http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CinchII.aspx 

http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Creating_a_Range_Slider_in_WPF_and_other_cool_tips_and_tricks_for_UserControls_.aspx

Blend / SL 3

30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3

TFS2010

Use Cases and Visual Studio 2010 (part 1 of many)

Beginning Use Cases – Identifying the Actors (part 2 of many)

Building out Use Cases from User Stories (part 3 of many)

Expanding on Use Cases and User Stories (part 4 of 5)

 

A Comparison of Azure and Google App Engine Pricing

MEF

MEF Preview 6 is out and Glenn Block ponders the issues behind UI self composition - http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/07/18/mef-and-xaml-integration-self-composition.aspx

9 July 2009

 

MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies - Introduction - http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2009/07/07/mvvm-philosophy-and-case-studies-introduction.aspx

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2009/07/06/how-do-you-update-all-work-item-type-definitions-on-a-server.aspx

 

http://vwcmp.codeplex.com/ WPF KB control

http://textfileparsers.codeplex.com/ - text parsing

Check Out the Killer Apps for Surface - http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/07/08/check-out-the-killer-apps-for-surface.aspx + http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/killer-apps-microsoft-surface-complete-guide

 

Run a build, create some manual tests, run them.  Change some code, rebuild and LabTest will recommend which manual tests should be re-run !

http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/archive/2009/06/29/test-impact-walk-through.aspx

Tue 7 July 2009

Reflections

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html

http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx

WPF

http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/06/24/new-wpf-4-0-features.aspx

Charting is in the latest WPF Toolkit - http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29117 and http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/06/25/wpf-charting-it-s-official-june-2009-release-of-the-wpf-toolkit-is-now-available.aspx

http://blogs.southworks.net/dschenkelman/2009/06/27/how-to-drag-and-drop-silverlight-views-between-regions-in-prism-v2/

http://blogs.southworks.net/matiasb/2009/07/02/how-to-hide-views-inside-composite-application-guidance-aka-prism-v2-regions/

 http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2009/06/30/silverlight-expression-3-australian-tour.aspx

I18N

WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex 

Iron Ruby

http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/06/ironruby-tutorial.html 

 

Thu 25 June 2009

http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2009/06/23/so-what-is-a-dsl-anyway.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx - but don't get excited 'cos we won't see the features in .NET 4.0

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/application-skinning-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx - couple of videos - haven't looked at them

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/see-the-preview-of-office-2010-the-movie.aspx - ditto - haven't looked at them

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/    Includes a series of EF tips

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx

Fri 19 June 2009

 

VS2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2009/06/17/new-editor-samples-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/06/17/introduction-to-wf-designer-rehosting-part-1.aspx

 

WPF

http://huddledmasses.org/wpf-in-powershell-powerboots-02/

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/18/blend-3-great-feature-2-master-details-screens.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/06/19/deep-zoom-composer-june-2009-preview.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/06/18/wpf-data-binding-lookup-tables.aspx

 

UX

http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2009/06/19/one-day-with-balsamiq-mockups-a-review.aspx

 

TFS2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx