Ian's Link Dump 1st April 2009

None of these links are April Fools!

WPF/Silverlight

How to run Events off a Timer in Silverlight

Notes on article M-V-VM in Silverlight

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Bitmap Caching in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 Photo Wall Gallery

Document Toolkit for Silverlight 2 and 3

Adding the ScrollIntoViewCentered method to WPF's ListBox

Behaviors, Actions and View Models in Silverlight

HtmlHost Control in Silverlight

Comprehensive List of Silverlight Controls for Developers

Caliburn Framework for Silverlight

Microsoft Health CUI

Source code for Microsoft Health CUI

How to Write Silverlight Design Time for all Designers

Implementing a Silverlight -based 'Vertical' Tickertape

Take the PRISM Survey

.NET

.NET Services March 2009 CTP is Released

Miscellaneous

8 Powerful Tools to Put Twitter on Your Website

How to Make IE6 Behave

Polygonal CSS - Image-free CSS Tooltip Pointers

Design

30 Fresh and Promising Design Blogs to Follow

Create Effective Search Result Pages

Ian's Link Dump 31st March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Integrating Silverlight and MVC

MIX09 Recap Series part 1: Favourite Features and Announcements

Blend 3 Part 1 - Import Compatability

Silverlight 3: Navigation Screencasts

Easy Drop Shadows on Text in Silverlight 3

Behaviours Under the Hood - API Details and Constraining the Type

.NET RIA Services: Implementing Custom Interfaces

Nest another Grid inside a LayoutRoot Element

Lambda Expressions for Asynchronous Web Service Calls

ASP.NET

The Four Pillars of ASP.NET

Miscellaneous

17 Adobe AIR Apps that can Save Your time

How-To: Search the Social Web - Ultimate Toolkit

Developers should not be allowed to work Overtime

Design

12 Examples of Lazy Registration

From Adobe Illustrator to Expression Design

Why aren't you (really) good at Graphic Design? (Seth Goodwin)

Ian's Link Dump 30th March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

The Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework

Silverlight Chart Builder

Where is Silverlight Mobile?

.NET

Free Ebook: Mastering SQL Server 2005 Profiler (excellent, from the folks at RedGate!)

ASP.NET MVC Tutorial (Wrox PDF Chapter. Updated. Again (with reader corrections)! 3rd time lucky?!

Tutorial: Install CruiseControl.NET

Design

Weird, Confusing and Irritating Photography

30 Photoshop Video Tutorials

Ian's Link Dump 27th March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Animation Hack Using Attached Properties in Silverlight

Behaviours: Making Interactivity Easy (and Fun!)

Controlling an Object using the KeyDown function in Silverlight

Creating a RadioButton List

Faking the Initialized Event in Silverlight

Silverlight: The Simplest Master Pages Ever

Problems with Silverlight DataContractJsonSerializer

MIX09 Review by Former Adobe Employee (very good analysis of announcements)

DomainUpDown Control

Button Wrap

Silverlight Pulse Grok Presentation

Blend Behaviours

How to Start an Animation in Code Behind in WPF

.NET

ASP.NET MVC Rescues Microsoft's Web Platform

Free PowerShell 'How to' Videos

Free ASP.NET Reference Cards

General Web

Is IE8 Really Fat and Slow?"

Design

25 Incredibly Artistic Websites

Guide to Lesser Known Colour Vocabulary

Ian's Link Dump 26th March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Silverlight DataGrid NOT sorting when binding to IEnumerable<T>

RIA Dashboards with Silverlight

Discovering Silverlight 3: Poor Man's VisualBrush Behaviour

Silverlight 3 and SEO

Silverlight 3 'GetNetworkAvailable' Doesn't Capture Working Offline

Using Blur to Make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3

Using Silverlight 2 with ADO.NET Data Services (MSDN Magazine, John Papa)

Publishing Silverlight Projects to the Web using Expression Blend

Using Silverlight Contrib: The StarSelector Control

How to Build a Good Install Experience with Silverlight

Using ASP.NET Membership and Profile Providers with RIA Services

Building a Silverlight Line of Business Application: Styling Part 1

The ASP.NET Ascension Project: Building a Bridge between ASP.NET and the Silverlight Client

Silverlight, MVC and the Tank Wars Game

XAML in .NET 4 Update

.NET

MVCContrib 1.0 Released

General Web

How Different Web Browsers Apply CSS to Different Web Form Elements

Miscellaneous

27 Twitter Apps Your Small Business Can Use Today

Design

100 Terrific Web Design Cheat Sheets that will save you Time, Money and Mistakes

Vector Illustrator Fonts

29 Web Design Blogs You Must Follow

16 Design Tools for Prototyping and WireFraming

Ian's Link Dump 25th March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Building an Optimised, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application (Tim Sneath)

View any of the MIX09 Sessions with Less Clicks (Mike Swanson)

Creating Video from Raw Bits using a MediaStream Source

Creating Sound using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta

Silverlight 3: Using Behaviours - A Quick Walkthrough

Adding Interactivity to Silverlight Projects using Expression Blend

Blend 3 Behaviours: Interactivity without Code

Source Code from Laurent Bugnion's MIX09 Talk

Silverlight 3 Beta AutoCompleteBox Improvements

Discovering Silverlight 3: The Star Wars Scroller

Silverlight 3 Release Date Surprise

How to Style the Caret in Silverlight 3

Bypassing the Image Cache in Silverlight

Sketching in C#: Legos vs Clay

Design

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

Designing Drop-Down menus: Examples and Best Practices

50 Inspirational Website Introductions

30 Awesome Design-Enhancing JQuery Plugins

70 Excellent Logo Designs and Tutorials

StyleNeat CSS Organiser

Ian's Link Dump 24th March 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Exploring the Core CLR within Silverlight (Tim Sneath)

Silverlight 3: BasedOn Styles

Bug: Explicit Styles Replaced by ISM in Silverlight 3 version of Toolkit

Silverlight 3 Beta - Downloads You May Have Missed

Silverlight 3: Chroma Key Pixel Shader Example

Local Messaging Samples

Expression Media: Replacement for SP2 is Out

.NET

An ASP Menu Fix Needed for a Problem with IE8 is Now Available

Inversion of Control with WCF and Unity

Tip of the Day: Getting rid of VS 'The Project Location is Not Trusted' Warnings

Design

29 Design Blogs You Must Follow