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Isolator version 6.0, dubbed Typemock Isolator 2010, includes support for Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, a dedicated Silverlight unit testing solution and more. those of you who want to get it right away just click here. Since the last release we’ve added quite a few nifty features:

You might have noticed the lack of x64/x86 installer – we’ve merged both installers so that you won’t have to download two files anymore.

In this third series of my blog post on ClientUI, I’ll dive deep on the MVVM architectural pattern specifically in Silverlight and how our upcoming ClientUI brings together a robust and comprehensive solution that completely addresses many challenges in adopting MVVM design pattern from both architectural and UI perspectives.

Artefact Animator provides an easy to use framework for procedural time-based animations in Silverlight and WPF. Download the latest version from http://artefactanimator.codeplex.com/.

Inspired by the Flash community and forged out of frustration, Artefact Animator brings to WPF and Silverlight what Tweener has done for Flash. If you’ve ever tried to get into animation in C# you’ll soon realize there are way too many steps to get you where you need to be. The consequences are that developers don’t love to animate UI and designers are limited by what they can animate when working with dynamic content. 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) supports browser-style navigation that can be used in two types of applications: standalone applications and XAML browser applications (XBAPs). To package content for navigation, WPF provides the Page class [MSDN]. The WPF support of page navigation is very similar to the page navigation in the web. Each page has its own content and each page can contain hyperlinks to point to other pages similar to the web. But unlike the web, WPF has great build in support for animations.

On Monday I gave an hour long presentation to a standing-room-only room at the Microsoft Mix conference in Las Vegas about the new Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework.  I knew there was interest in this but I was overwhelmed by the amount of interest.  I did the presentation in a Microsoft Expression Blend SketchFlow player and posted it online on my personal web site at Charette.com/saf.

This example will show how to use lose coupling, dependency injection and delay loading of components.   This is also an update to my Simple MEF example from a few months ago as just about everything here applies to WPF, WinForms and ASP.NET apps as well.

Ward Bell and I have been chatting about our thoughts and exchanging ideas on how we handle our own presentation frameworks. In an effort to get on the same page with the world, we have conformed to using some common terminology because frankly when it comes to patterns and frameworks we technology people are horrible at being clear. How much can we all take of acronyms and funky named patterns can we take?

Jeff Wilcox is pleased to announce that the Silverlight Unit Test Framework received honorable mention at the Microsoft Engineering Excellence awards ceremony and now he wants to tell you something more about this tool.

The Silverlight Unit Test Framework is a simple unit and functional test system specially designed for Silverlight, building on existing desktop unit testing knowledge and metadata. You’ll find the test framework inside of the Silverlight Toolkit’s source code package, and in use in a lot of places.

Gabriel Schenker and Ray Houston want to introduce a new framework which provides a fluent interface to Microsoft Silverlight.

As we have been able to leverage a lot of OSS software in the past we found that it is time to give something back to the community too. This was the birth of the OSS project we call “Fluent Silverlight”. The code is publicly available and is hosted by Google Code. It can be found here.