Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today – Tim Heuer announces the release of the ‘GDR3’ update to the Silverlight 4 Runtime which provides a number of updates addressing issues with media playback, IDE Debuging bugfixes, fixes for out of browser updates when applications name changes, and better memory management and network optimisations.
CSS Support in ReSharper 6 – The JetBrains ReSharper team share an in depth look at the new features for working with CSS which will be included in ReSharper 6 (and are currently available in the Early Access Preview)
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Basic JavaScript Part 10: The Module Pattern – Jan Van Ryswyck continues his back to basics series on JavaScript with a look at the Module Pattern and its use in JavaScript, and how it supports the CommonJS Initiative, and sharing an implementation using this pattern and looking at how it can be refined.
User Experiences – Listen, Learn, Refine – Jane Kim discusses some of the User Experience changes in the Internet Explorer 9 RC, talking about how they came from user suggestions and comparing the user experience of IE9 RC with the latest editions of other browsers.
IE9’s tracking protection and content distribution networks – Barry Dorrans highlights the Tracking Protection security feature of Internet Explorer 9, some of the problems it causes for CDN based content such as JavaScript libraries, and a change in the Release Candidate which allows publication of Tracking Protection Lists, with Barry sharing a list which will allow you to make use of the protection this feature offers, yet still have the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft CDN content operate correctly.
BDD Simply – Mehdi Khalili takes a look at Behaviour Driven Development style testing, focusing on the naming conventions and structure of BDD tests, along with taking a look at the StoryQ and SpecFor libraries
How to get more out of text templates – Niko Schuessler takes a look at some of the more advanced code generation features of T4 Templates, including the use of variables and Linq within the tempate generation
Logging Your Application for Fun and Profit Part 1 – Casey Kriutzfield kicks off a series of posts looking at the various logging features available to you as a ,NET Developer. In this first post Casey looks at the basics of logging and highlights the DebugView tool.
Prototyping with anonymous classes – Jimmy Bogard discusses some trickery which you can use to support execution of expressions against anonymous types, and illustrates how he uses this technique to avoid having to create lots of classes for testing purposes.
Delegates make great container components – Mike Hadlow discusses how storing delegates in your Inversion of Control container can help avoid the need for lots of classes which essentially wrap a single function, illustrating this with an example surrounding dates.
Idle Detection and Running under Lock on your WP7 – Derik Whittaker discusses how to make your Windows Phone 7 applications handle the detection of being idle, and how to make you applications behave nicely when the device is locked.
RTL (Arabic and Hebrew) Support for Windows Phone 7 – Daniel Moth discusses the lack of Right to Left rendering on the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications, and how the Windows based solution of PInovke won’t work here, sharing a simple piece of code which achieves RTL rendering.
DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper … Squared! – Rachel Hawley highlights the currently scheduled DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper events still to come this year in the UK (and also sneaks a shoe reference in there too….bonus points to Rachel for broadening developers world view)