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- 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design – Blaine Wastell announces the 4th drop release of the Patterns and Practices Web Platform Guidance package. This release addresses some of the technical debt that the team have introduced over time, and updates the validation to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC2 RC functionality
- CoffeeScript: A nice little language that compiles to JavaScript – Ajaxian highlights an experimental language from Jeremy Ashkenas which compiles down to JavaScript, but has a shorter more expressive syntax. The syntax of this language is similar to Ruby / Python. The current release should be considered an alpha release.
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- WPF : A Most Useful Threading Component – Sacha Barber shares a WPF component which makes it easier to implement background thread processes in your applications while giving the user feedback about the progress / success of the operations allowing your UI to remain responsive.
- More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship – Bart De Smet presses on with his series looking at the System.Interactive assembly. This part looks at the Data centric conversions whick take IEnumerable and convert to IEnumerable<Notification> and vice versa. In More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife Bart continues the series taking a look at the additional combinators which System.Interactive adds to the mix, and shows examples of each in use.
- A WaspKiller Game with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, MVP and MVVM Patterns Part 1 – Xianzhong Zhu begins a series of posts on DotNetSlackers which looks at the construction of a simple game in Silverlight 3 using the .NET Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services and both the Model View Presenter (MVP) and Model View View Model MVVM design patterns, MVP for the front end, and MVVM for the back end.
- Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript – Phil Haack shares a useful colour conversion function which helps iron out the differences between browsers when dealing with colours, especially useful when writing tests where you need to compare colours.
- Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI – ‘llester’ takes a look at the TestAPI support for creating runtime exceptions which can be injected into code execution allowing you to test fault code paths, highlighting the syntax and showing an example of it in use.