Maurice de Beijer has released the first part of his articles about unit testing. As Maurice says, unit testing is an important part of daily life for a developer so don’t miss this article. In the end of it there are links to some other post on the same topic.
A few weeks ago Bart Czernicki started the series of post named “Silverlight 3 - What we know so far & what we can predict”. The first post was about
the announced enhacements. Now he is ready with the second part – “
Silverlight 3 Development Stack”. Here Bart takes some educated guesses as to what and how Silverlight 3 will be released in relation to the development environment. And these are definitely not some random guesses.
Ning Zhang
has another article about design time feature implementation in Silverlight Toolkit. This post aims to explain
the source code, demonstrate how to implement design time features for Silverlight, and provide a framework and source code that readers can use directly in their own projects.
Another of his recent creations is his quick Blend tutorial for developers. This post is aiming to give an quick overview and tutorial of Blend to developers who are authoring XAML mostly in Visual Studio or notepad, and so they will be interested and know how to get started in using Blend.
While working on a chapter about the Application Model for his forthcoming book, Jesse Liberty reviewed the examples on
passing parameters into Silverlight applications. Read this post if you want to be able to create a Silverlight application that allows for passing in some information through the html or aspx page that will be integrated into the Silverlight application at run time. In another recent post of his, Jesse talks about
HyperVideo. This posting will reintroduce the concept of Hyper-video, which is the subject of a series of forthcoming videos of his.
Jobi Joy has an article about
paginated ObservableCollection. ObservableCollection class makes the collection binding very easy in Silverlight or WPF. Here you can find a running demo in Silverlight and links to some good articles about Observable collection in the multi-threading environment.
Kirupa Chinnathambi from the team of the Expression Blend and Design products shows
how to create falling snow in Silverlight. You can see the effect he achieved and if you like it, feel free to use it for your own projects.
Here is an article about
reusing .NET Assemblies in Silverlight. You’ll find two different ways of reusing .NET assemblies and code in Silverlight. The first technique is the more powerful assembly-level technique, while the second is more flexible file-level technique. Given these two methods, you should be able to effectively architect a solution that scales to virtually any number of developers.
Adam Kinney has posted links to all the
Silverlight-based Christmas cards he could find. Deep Zoom was the big winner this year as the implementation feature for card creation.
Brad Abrams ran across a cool Silverlight Application that helps you find a truly meaningful New Year's Resolutions. This funny
Resolution Randomizer might also be a good Silverlight example for you.
Team Visifire announced the new
Visifire v2.0.5 beta release. Check which of the bugs had been fixed in this release and download it now.
Silverlight Girl published the second part of her posts on
how to create shadow effect in Blend, where she is going to explain how to achieve a better, smoother looking shadow by modifying the gradients of the Fills and the OpacityMasks.