Points of interest #8

Another week has shot by. Didn't have any time to look at Silverlight although I have managed to download the Orcas Beta and get everything set-up so I'm good to go (whenever I find a spare moment).

Links that have caught my interest this week are:

Silverlight

• Ernie has created a cool plugin for reflector that allows you to easily peek under the hood of a Silverlight Application.
• Scott shows us how to get Silverlight applications to display in full screen mode.
• Jaime releases an early version of snoop for Silverlight 1.0
• Chris Craft gives a very good list of Silverlight Resources
• One of the biggest threads on the Silverlight forums concerns the lack of controls available with the current alpha. Dave Relyea has just published some layout controls he created.
• Came across this Mix Video that shows the New York Times reader working as a Silverlight App on the Mac.
• Came across the Silverlight Pad which allows you to change Xaml and see the change via the brower. Has some samples to give you an idea of how things work.
• Miguel de Icaza posts an update about Silverlight on the Mono Olive mailing list.
• Alexander Strauss shows how to get silverlight background transparency when developing with Orcas.
• Came across this post that gives an overview of the basics of a Silverlight Application.
• Doug provides a list of Silverlight resources.
• Ozzie shows you how to create a sidebar gadget with Silverlight.
• Shawn provides some details about the Silverlight Security model.
• Vivekd - posts a sample Silverlight toolbar. 
• Mike Harsh has created a SilverlightPad and provides a link to the source.
• Scott talks about the basics of a Silverlight Control
• James talks about Harmony a Swf to Xaml conversion tool.
• Jamie announces a beta release of TestDriven.NET with support for Silverlight!

Learning

• Allan Naim is pointing out that Microsoft is offering free WF, WCF and WPF training.
• Microsoft have 101 Linq samples up on their site.

Other

• Lawrence blogs about some new Moss templates.
• Benko lists a set of Moss Webcasts
• Blaine announces the May 2007 release of SCSF and on a comment on a related blog post Ohad announces that he is currently updating his SCSFWPF project (Allows you to create an application that is 100% WPF) so that it supports the May 2007 release. I wonder if SCSF will ever support Silverlight based applications :D
• Nauma Nauman announces an updated version of the Code Share Addin for Visual Studio 2005
• Bruce talks about the windows workflow foundation web workflow approvals starter kit.
• It looks like ThoughtWorks are about to release an Application for managing Agile IT Projects: Mingle - free for opensource projects and non-profit companies.

That's all for this week.

John