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.
Karl Shifflett announced that he has posted an article on Code Project, Exploring a Model-View-ViewModel Application; WPF Password Manager, Cipher Text which explores some MVVM scenarios in the Cipher Text application presented in the article.
Shawn Wildermuth has posted the article “MSchema: An Example - Part 1”. In this first part he will show you how to define some interesting data types in MSchema. Shawn has posted three more articles these days. The first one is named “Caution when Eager Loading in the Entity Framework”. This might be helpful when you're working with the Entity Framework. The second one is about using closures to simplify asynchronous programming. You can download the code and play with it yourself. And the last post is an announcement that Silverlight Tour Now includes Coverage of the Silverlight Toolkit. This coverage will include examples of using the "Stable" band controls as well as charting and theme support.
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.
Laurent Bugnion has written the article “Silverlight toolkit: Problem with the ViewBox, named elements, and a workaround”. In the current version of ViewBox control, an issue makes that named element within the ViewBox (or within the ViewBox's children) will not be set correctly.So Laurent creates extension methods to correct this issue.
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.
Justin Angel has posted about custom VSM VisualStateManagers in Silverlight 2.0. Learn how to create custom VSM managers with Justin’s help. The source code is available for download.
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.
Tamir Khason has a quick Silverlight (and WPF) tip on how to write program without XAML. This might be very helpful to all who want to participate in 10K MIX09 contest.
Imran Shaik explains Dependency Properties in Silverlight in a tutorial which has code in VB and C#.