Happy Silverlight 3 RTW Day!

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow Available for Download and SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview (Christian Schormann)
• Improved HitTest Method for Silverlight 3 and "Printing" in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 3 Relase Download Links and Installation Instructions (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight 3 + ClearType (Chris Cavanagh)
• Syntax Highlighting TextBoxes in WPF – A Sad Story (Harry Pierson)
• http://silverlight.live.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Spy and Silverlight 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes! (Tim Heuer)
• Day #10: Styling Silverlight Controls (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Announcing Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Asynchronous Execution, Animation and more in MVVM with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Blend 3 and the New ‘Make Into Control’ Feature (Malcolm Sheridan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Available (Zhiming Xue)
• Task Parallel Library: Parallel Invoke (Dariusz Parys)
• Querying on Child Count With NHibernate (Tuna Toksoz)
• Modeling DSLs with F# and Units of Measure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Use the "Oslo" Repository to Store Service Config (Chris Sells)
• Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ICustomQueryInterface and CLR V4 (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learn The Art of Unit Testing (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Behind Every Failed Project Are Reasons That Are Simple And Straight Forward. (Rajiv Popat)
• Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal? and Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help (Roy Osherove)
• It’s all in the details (Steve Jones)
• Is that a Property or a Method? (Derik Whittaker)
• Code Quality (Peter Waldschmidt)
• Avoid the trap of perfectionism (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Does Kanban Respect People, Self Organisation and Continuous Improvement and Kanban Is My First Language (Karl Scotland)

Web Development

• Easy Retweet Button (John Resig)
• Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control? (Web Dev Tools Team)
• Invoke JavaScript using the ASP.NET Wizard Control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.2 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Preview of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Submitted for Zend Framework (Bruce Kyle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #188 – Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari (Scott Hanselman)
• Agile 2009 – Conference preview with Johanna Rothman (Bob Payne)
• MVC Public Service Announcement Video Series (Bobby Johnson)
• Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) (Charles Torre)
• ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)
• How to get data out of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (thirster42)
• Push your DBA skills over the edge by becoming a better developer and Go ahead and click it! I triple dog dare you!!! (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Request SQLAuthority.com Stickers and SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Detecting a tap on a UITextView (Ben Scheirman)
• Launch a Process as Standard User from an Elevated Process (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #1: Download status in the task bar (Scott Lock)
• Windows Azure Project Attire! (David Lemphers)
• Waegis After a Year (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd (Larry Hyrb)
• Telerik Ships Alpha "M"-Based Comparison Tool (Chris Sells)
• Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic (Matthew McDermott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #387 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2009 — #633 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.10 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 9th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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