Ian's Link Dump 7th May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Silverlight ComboBox Number of Items Shown Refresh

Add Extra Items to a Silverlight 2 ComboBox

Sample Silverlight 3 Behaviours

MVVM Base Application that can be Edited with Blend and Visual Studio

Patterns and Practices in the Component Application Library: Part 3

Customising the Look of a Radio Button in Expression Blend (Microsoft Expression video)

Switching Pages and Passing Parameters in Silverlight

Silverlight Animation Tip (Removing Blend XAML and Effects on Animation)

Silverlight Tip: Object Creation via Silverlight.js - IE8 and Firefox Tweak

Silverlight: Developer Win, Designer Fail

One More Platform Difference More-or-less Tamed (SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better!)

Silverlight RIA Calling Stored Procedures that Don't Return Tables

4 Great Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

MIX09 Videos and Slides Put into Deep Zoom Format

WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Channel 9 video)

Microsoft

A Developer's Guide to Preparing for Windows 7

Windows 7: Why You Should Keep User Account Control at the Highest Level

Video

Vista Codec Package

Design

53 Mind-Blowing Uses of Typography

Ian's Link Dump 6th May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

The New York Times Silverlight Kit

Thinking outside the XAP - Blend 3 and Support for Web Sites

WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

How to Format Strings in a DataTemplate in XAML with MultiBinding

How to Structure a WPF Application with DataBindings so You Can Enhance it in Expression Blend

Download WPF M-V-VM Project Tempalte/Toolkit

Custom Membership, Role and Profile: Silverlight RIA Services

Silverlight 3: Insert and Update Data using WCF Service with DataForm and DataGrid

Discovering Silverlight 3: Demos of New Features

Binding ComboBox to Enum in Silverlight

How to Zoom In and Out with a Mouse Wheel in Silverlight

.NET

NUnit 2.5 RTM

Finding out about London .NET Events

ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements

jQuery Sequential List

Design

50+ Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Photo Effects

10 Tips for Efficient Design

Ian's Link Dump 5th May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Be Careful When You Are Naming the Silverlight Class Library

Radial Layout in Silverlight

Going 'Extreme' with Silverlight 3 (Sharing the Source for a Real-World Sample Application

Silverlight 3 Video Player with Source Code

How to Create a User Control in WPF (video)

Customising the Look of a Radio Button in Expression Blend (video)

XCeed WPF DataGrid - Part 1

WPF M-V-VM Toolkit 0.1 (Negative Review)

'View Model' the Movie - Cast Your Vote

Microsoft Wants to take Seadragon to Windows 8, Windows Mobile 7, Everywhere

.NET

Building Sandcastles - Great Codeplex Artefact for the Documentation Focused

Revitalising a Technical Career

Design

Composition and Harmony 101

Customising the Look of a Radio Button in Expression Blend (video)

Ian's Link Dump 5th May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

A Quick Note on Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF

'Convert Brush to Resource' button in Blend 3

Getting the Most out of the Vector Tools in Expression Design

Using Vector Graphics from Office Clip Art in Silverlight/WPF Apps

Using Wikipedia as Clip Art Source for Silverlight/WPF Apps

ASP.NET Membership and Roles in Silverlight 3

Notes on Blend and Expression Video Tutorials

XPath (barely) in Silverlight 2

Validation - Hey, You're Done (Silverlight 3) (Jesse Liberty)

Data Binding Data Validation in Silverlight 2 (Jesse Liberty)

More Validation Fun - But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)

Silverlight DataGrid Control

Add a WMS Layer in Silverlight

WPF/MVVM - How to Get Data in Design Time

WPF Discussion 1st May 2009

Brian Noyes on Selecting the Right Client Technology (video)

MIX09: Principles of Microsoft Silverlight Animation

.NET

Getting Started with Azure .NET Services Platform

Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates

Video

The Best Adobe After Effects Tutorials

Design

Pro Tips to Breathe New Life Into Your Web Site

Star Trek Icons for Free Download

Best Tutorials for Cinematic Visual Effects

Large and Growing Collection of Free Photoshop Brushes

Ian's Link Dump 3rd May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Rooler Utilities for Measuring and Analysing On-Screen Graphics (Peter Blois)

First Smooth Streaming User-Generated Content

Silverlight Error Codes Explained

Silverlight Beat Box Application Part 2: Custom Panel Hit Testing

MIX09: Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF

.NET

Problem with the Azure Training Kit's IntroAccessControl Hands-On-Lab

Microsoft Source Analysis aka StyleCop

CheckboxList Client-Side Validation Using jQuery

How to Create Tabs with jQuery UI

Ian's Link Dump 2nd May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

15 Excellent and Useful Silverlight Tutorials and Resources

Extending Silverlight's Mouse Events

SilverlightContrib Star Selector Control Updated

Integrating Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex with Unity Container

Silverlight UK User Group #7 Meeting Agenda Posted

Silverlight Smooth Streaming Showcase Site (720p movie trailers)

Star Wars Crawler in Silverlight 3

.NET

DotnetBlogEngine (Open Source Blogging Engine Written in .NET)

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC part 2

Other Microsoft Related

90 Videos Added to 'Essential SQL Server 2008 For Developers' Workshop Online

IE8 Installation: The User is in Control

Design

15 Best Places to Get Inspirational Web Designs

20 Excellent Javascript Navigation Techniques and Examples

7 Surefire Web Design Styles That Work

HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery Killer Tutorials

The Effective Strategy for Choosing Right Domain Names

Design a Beautiful Web Site from Scratch

Free Font: Whiteboard Modern Demo

Ian's Link Dump 1st May 2009

WPF/Silverlight

Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit v0.1 Released

Switching Pages and Passing Parameters in Silverlight

Register Silverlight Controls with Visual Studio and Blend

WEB09 - Silverlight and Blend in Auckland, New Zealand (Tim Heuer)

Expression for Art's Sake: Silverlight and Blend in Wellington, New Zealand (Tim Heuer)

How to Use App.Config in WPF Applications

How to Make a Frameless WPF Application with Custom Close/Drag Buttons

WPF Application based on MVVM that Saves and Writes to an XML File

Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight

INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use Them Instead of Dependency Properties)

Metadata Classes (in .NET RIA Services) - A Force for Good or Evil? (Mike Taulty)

Forum Post: RIA Service or ADO.NET Data Service?

Expression Blend 3 is Sweeeeeeet

Silverlight MVP and Why I Love Silverlight

A Silverlight TextBlock with Tracking, Surely You Jest?

Silverlight Real time Swine Flu Viewer

Silverlight Real Time Swine Flu Viewer

Silverlight Animation Tip

Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes

.NET

Why Messaging - Part 2: What is a Message?

GeoLocation API

IE8 'Firestarter' Videos now available

Other Microsoft

Windows 7 Setup Secrets

Miscellaneous

SCRUM Cheat Sheet

Design

60 Beautiful Design Tutorials and Resources

350 Ultimate Free Spray and Splatter Paint Brushes

Humour

The Downfall of Agile Hitler