2008 December 16 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Nick Berardi is Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern

Scott Koon outlines some of the issues with Oxite in NEW ASP.NET MVC SAMPLE – OXITE – NEEDS SOME TLC

Karl Seguin lends his voice to those not most impressed by Oxite in Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?!

jQuery

Jeffrey Way continues with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 10

Brian Reindel on how to Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML  thought this one might be good for a Silverlight widget too 🙂

Other

Smashing Magazine with some stunning Light Blurs Brushes and Decoration Pack For Photoshop

Gotta love this one – Css Juice’s 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design

W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web

Jeff Attwood’s My Scaling Hero

Rick Strahl on Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs

Glen Stansberry lists 10 Steps to Learn a New Coding Language Fast

Patterns & Practices

Davy Brion on The Importance Of Releasing Your Components Through Windsor

Rob Reynolds with The Real Reason to Use IoC/DI (Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection) and a Container Like Windsor

Microsoft’s Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP – 32 bit – “a binary code analysis tool that helps identify common variants of certain prevailing vulnerabilities that can give rise to common attack vectors such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and XPath Injection”

Silverlight

Mike Demopoulos spotlight’s Mark Dawson’s work with Silverlight Photosynth Viewer

Tim Anderson’s First steps with offline Silverlight and Live Framework

Bryant Likes on Silverlight Dependency Properties

Jeff Prosise on SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON XAMLREADER.LOAD

Jeff Wilcox on AutoCompleteBox without cycling navigation and Adding page up and down support to AutoCompleteBox

Dave Anson on Expanded access to Silverlight 2’s generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser updated for better compatibility!]

Michael Washington with a great wee Silverlight Dashboard implementation

Robby Ingebretsen on Free Typefaces for Your WPF of Silverlight Project

Michael Wolf on a Silverlight ConfigurationManager

Andy Beaulieu announces the release of the Physics Helper Beta 3

Surface

Eric Havir on Hotel 1000 and Microsoft Surface

UX

Jakob Nielson on Interaction Elasticity

Dmitry Fadeyev lists 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

2008 December 15 – Links for today

jQuery

Speckyboy lists 37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers

WebResourceDepot spotlights 25 Amazing JavaScript Games (Some Fun And Inspiration) and Free CSS Menus: Styled Menus

Germán Schuager on jQuery Autocomplete + JSON + ASP.NET MVC

Other

Noupe spotlights the Templatica launch

Thought this was a brilliant post from Davy Brion on Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code

Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V3.0 Beta

Silverlight

Jesse Liberty on Sorting a List

Nigel Sampson asks Why won’t Generic.xaml work?

Ning Zhang looks at a Design Time Features in Silverlight Toolkit

Mike Demopoulos spotlights Felix Wang’s work with the excellent Create Silverlight photo galleries from your Flickr account with Mooncake

Alexey Zakharov provides a Silverlight Tip: Splash screen issues.

Jon Galloway looks at Silverlight Crossdomain Access Workarounds

Mike Ormond looks at Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox

Jose Fajardo with What a beautiful, thou distracting, flash website! Let’s do it in Silverlight 🙂

Einar Ingebrigtsen on INotifyPropertyChanged revisited

Kirupa Chinnathambi posts a great tutorial on Easing in Silverlight and WPF

Kevin Dockx on Silverlight: Easily Reading Application Settings from Configuration File (web.config)

SQL

Kevin Simmons offers some advice on SQL Server 2008 Sparse Columns Identifying Columns For Conversion

TDD

Jeremy Miller with a comprehensive post on Design and Testability

UX

WebResourcesDepot spotlight MephoBox: Website Interface Collections

WPF

Beth Massi on Formatting Data in WPF Controls

András Pálinkás on MapperCommandBinding – Mapping commands in WPF

Marlon Grech on AttachedCommandBehavior V2 aka ACB

Charles Petzold on WPF Retained Graphics and the SubPropertiesDoNotAffectRender Flag

2008 November 26 – Links for today

ASP.Net

ykorotia looks at W3C_Validator with ASP .NET or how validate XHTML1.1

Scott Guthrie on the New ASP.NET Charting Control

David Ebbo on Using User Controls as Page Templates in Dynamic Data

Other

Bart Czernicki reviews the Best WCF Book and WCF Resource – 2nd Edition

Patterns & Practices

Glenn Block announces the MEF Re-factored, Preview 3 has shipped.

Silverlight

Jeff Wilcox covers the AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide

Corey Schuman on Silverlight ToolTips – positioning and customizing

Mike Snow’s tips: Threading in Silverlight and How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs and Monitoring for App.Current Events – Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit

Katrien De Graeve on Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps

SQL

Kevin Cox with Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

Robert Sheldon looks at SQL Server Index Basics

Pinal Dave makes an Interesting Observation about Order of Resultset without ORDER BY

UX

Robby Ingebretsen spotlights One Data Widget Dashboard to Rule Them All

The Processing language – “open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”

WPF

Lester is Testing WPF apps using NUnit

The SDK guys bring us A DataGrid sample using XML data

Anders Bursjöö looks at Naming and conventions in XAML

Rico Mariani on Visual Studio Dialogue with WPF Performance Emphasis

2008 November 21 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Dino Esposito presents some ASP.NET Presentation Patterns

Other

JD discusses Documentation, the Mindscape way

Marcelo Ruiz looks at Limiting how many entities are returned from an ADO.NET Data Service

Design Shard have some absolutely gorgeous work in Illustration Artists Showcase and Inspiration – Part 2

Johnny Lee highlights Some great Wiimote IR tracking projects

Josh Lane presents some Best Practices For Windows Workflow Foundation Apps

Dames McCaffrey asks What Makes A Good Software Tester?

Simon Segal has Julie Lerman Entity Framework Tutorials consolidated

Patterns & Practices

Ray Booysen makes his Code Available from MVVM Talk

Ray Houston with PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern

Ken Getz presents The ObservableCollection Class

Silverlight

Joel Neubeck on Developing a Casual Games with Silverlight 2 – Module 2

Mike Benkovich announces Twin Cities Silverlight Demo Code posted!

Felix Corke with A Step-by-Step Introduction to Styling, Templating, and Animating in Expression Blend

Katrien De Graeve on creating a Silverlight Mesh-enabled web application in 8 steps

Crocus Girl gives us a Silverlight Tip [AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR]

Justin Angel discusses Silverlight Design Time Extensibility and Silverlight Toolkit: Treeview, TreeViewItem & HierarchicalDataTemplate

Martin Mihaylov on Using the TreeView control in Silverlight 2

The SDK guys offer some advice on Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom  and a subsequent update

Jesse Liberty with some advice on Becoming a Silverlight Programmer

Jon Flansders on SharePoint, Silverlight, and Virtual Earth

Bruce Abernethy uncovers the ImplicitStyleManager – Hidden Gem in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008

Timmy Kokke on Silverlight Without Xaml

Manish Dalal with CROSS BROWSER CLIPBOARD : DATAGRID WITH EXCEL SUPPORT – PART 2

David Anson suggests if you are Having problems with layout? Switch to Plan B! [LayoutTransformControl scenarios for WPF]

Michael Demopoulos on Building a Live Mesh Silverlight Application

Lee on Customizing tooltip

SilverlightGirl discusses how to Obtain cool looking text without embedding fonts in Expression Blend 2

The SDK guys look at the Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help

Rick Strahl enters the Silverlight space with Silverlight and Data Communications

Ning Zhang’s look at how to Customize Silverlight Toolkit Controls: NumericUpDown

SQL

Bennie Haelen is Investigating the new Spatial Types in SQL Server 2008 – Part 2

Edwin Sarmiento is Using Partitioned Tables with Multiple Filegroups for High Availability

Scott Selikoff explains Why too much Database Normalization can be a Bad Thing

Ken Simmons on how to Generate SQL Agent Job Schedule Report

TDD

Jeremy Miller recommends a Design For Testability

UX

Dmitry offers some thought provoking advice with De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls – definately worth considering.

Charlse Kreitzberg and Ambrose Little present The Human Face Of Software

Zef Fugaz makes Free UX Templates available

WPF

Martin Hinshelwood gives some Advice on using XamRibbon with Composite WPF

Mike Steadman with the mechanics of building a Custom Control Part 2

Charles Petzold looks at a Simple Cable Simulation

Mike Taulty has a series of posts on WPF and “Twistori”: Part 7 (of 7 :-)), Part 6, Part 5, Part 4, Part 3, Part 2 and the one that started it all

and a WPF: Experiment with Text Animation

Charles Petzold on how to Render Text On A Path With WPF

2008 November 18 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Rick Strahl: ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted

Gayani Devapriya discusses Dynamic Data Templates in ASP.NET 3.5

Don Wilson on how to Build a Shopping Cart in ASP.NET

Coding Standards

K Scott Allen asserts that Single Letter Variable Names Still Considered Harmful

Other

MS Research’s AutoCollage project allows you to create beautiful collages of your favorite pictures in a few clicks of a mouse

Lee Munroe highlights 15 Awesome T-shirt Websites For Geeks

AddedBytes.com have published an updated regular expressions cheat sheet

Patterns & Practices

Udi Dahans Intentions and Interfaces presentation is now available for download

Matt Gromes with My First Agile Project Part 12: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Our Retrospectives

Jeanne Boyarsky asks why do we violate law of demeter?

Silverlight

Martin Mihaylov on Changing the style of the selected row of the DataGrid control

Chris Hay asks Silverlight: Are sockets only suitable in intranets?

Suprotim Agarwal on DataBinding in Silverlight – Change property of a Silverlight UI Control at runtime based on another UI Control

Daniel Vaughan looks at Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight 2: Dispelling the async-only myth

Ruurd Boeke is still Transitioning the content in an expander – part Two

Mike Snow’s tip on 3D Support in Silverlight 3

Michael Sync gives us a Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action

Jeff Blankenburg spotlights Maciej Skierkowski’s United States Map in XAML

Nigel Parker spotlights filtering Deep Zoom composer photos with a colour picker

Scott Guthrie’s Update on Silverlight 2 – and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Jason Beres posts a Silverlight Data Visualization Video “To get a peek at some of the prototypes that are being built in the development labs with our new Silverlight Data Visualization product”

Andy Beaulieu on Using the Live Search API 2.0 with Silverlight

Jesse Liberty details a couple of Silverlight Related Skills – Post #1

Jonas Follesø on Combining different Separated Presentation Patterns

SQL

Arup Chakraborty brings Performance testing and tuning for a beginner

John Sheesley looks at Using Object Dependencies in SQL Server 2008

UX

yugu brings us 36 Cool Custom Error 404 Pages

Janko Jovanovic asks What if your contact form fails?

WPF

Jaime Rodriguez experiments with MICROSOFT CLIENT CONTINUUM IN ACTION: THE SILVERLIGHT TOOLKIT CHARTS, RUNNING IN WPF

Evan Lang brings us a ShaderEffect Overview

2008 November 14 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Dan Wahlin offers Code from My ASP.NET Connections Talks

Tobin Harris investigates ASP.NET MVC – Losing the CodeBehind

Other

Positive Space list thier AMAZING WEBSITES ELEVEN: OCTOBER 2008

Shivprasad Koirala looks at The two interceptors: – HttpModule and HttpHandlers

Johnny Lee informs us of ever more ingenious input methods with Scratch Input and Low-Cost Multi-spectral material sensor

Patterns & Practices

Pat Tormey looks at the Singleton Design Pattern

Silverlight

Mark Smiths thoughts on Using the ImplicitStyleManager with Headered controls

qixing answers some Silverlight FAQ from TechDays

Lee continues Changing Styles using ImplicitStyleManager-2

Jafar Husain on an Auto-sizing Canvas for Silverlight and WPF

Karl Erikson details Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

Manish Dalal on a CROSS BROWSER COPY AND PASTE IN DATAGRID WITH EXCEL SUPPORT – PART 1

John Bowen releases some Presentation Materials for TechDays ’08

Beatriz Stollnitz answers How can I expand items in a TreeView? – Part II

Ruurd Boeke discusses Transitioning the content in a expander

Mike Ormond develops A Fun Little Silverlight Twitter Application

David Anson is Shamelessly benefitting from the work of others [Links to Silverlight Airlines and Surface samples for RTW!]

Pencho Popadiyn is doing some cracking stuff with Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Adam Kinney discusses Quickly Redesigning a Silverlight-based Twitter application

Craig Shoemaker has released a new interview on Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Future Expectations – Interview with Scott Guthrie

Laurent Bugnion is in a podcast at wiresidechat discussing Silverlight 2 Unleashed

Surface

VectorForm announces We have a PhizzPop Winner!

Brad Cunningham releases a Slide Deck and Sample App from Architecture SIG talk

UX

SEO Blog lists 7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit

WPF

Brian Noyes with The Truth about Routed Commands Routing

2008 November 11 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Suprotim Agarwal provides 3 Different Ways to Display Progress in an ASP.NET AJAX Application

CSS

Stu Nicholls produces a gorgeous circular menu with sub menus

Other

Joe Stagner explains the URL Rewrite for IIS – SEO Friendly URLs love it !

pdestoop announces the WCF REST Starter Kit is now available on Codeplex

Max Pool tells us How To Organize A Gosh-Darn Good Resume

Noupe lists 30+ Creative Hi-Res Wallpapers Only for Designers – Some of these are really gorgeous

Sam Allen offers some Struct Examples and Tricks

Matt Gromes continues with My First Agile Project Part 11: A Tale of Two Dark Clouds

Robert Glass highlights Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

Smashing Magazine lists 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes

The MS CRM Team outline Reports for CRM 4.0 using SQL Server 2008 and Report Builder 2.0 – this stuff looks like it is really shaping up

IBM’s Many eyes data visualization project

Bill Staples announces IIS7 URL Rewrite Extension is finished – download now!

Silverlight

James Bacon announces A new Silverlight framework for creating managed code splash screens, pre loaders and loader projects

Silverlight Girl details a Silverlight Loader Animation

Gerard Leblanc continues with Menus, part IV : collapsible menu. This is a great series – if you haven’t seen it yet, it is worth stopping by.

Jesse Liberty on Obtaining and Caching a Lot of Words

Robby Ingebretson on ToolBox Panels

John Papa offers a Free Teaser Chapter for Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Chris anderson continues Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 3

Ineir shows us an Animation Along a Path for Silverlight

Jordan Knight displays how to Fire collection updated events from a special Silverlight ItemsControl

Dan Wahlin makes samples available from his Silverlight 2 Development Workshop

Ning Zhang presents the second parter on how to implement dependency property with validation, coercion and eventing on WPF and Silverlight

Mehdi Andaloussi gives a great Designer’s guid to styling Silverlight Toolkit Charting controls with a link to a lovely charting styleing guide to help along the way

David Anson lists A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources (ego point, all of these have been listed in these here pages :))

SQL

Mike Ormond on Spatial Data and now the Spatial Wiki

Mohit Gupta suggests a strategy for Normalizing-Denormalized Tables

TDD

Brian Hunters Introduction to UI Unit Testing with UI Automation

UX

Dmitry brings news of a great presentation by they guys at Create with Context who have done a bunch of research into how people really use the iPhone and published their slides of their findings

WPF

Lees details Changing background of AutoCompleteBox

Tamir Khasno details an Auto scroll ListBox in WPF

The WPF Team annouces that a WPF Designer Hotfix is posted

Marcelo Ruiz discusses the Impact of text language on WPF

2008 October 22 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Brad Abrams at AJAXWorld: Day 1- Building a great AJAX application from scratch

Maarten Balliauw’s CarTrackr – Sample ASP.NET MVC application – this is really worth looking at as it illustrates a number of different technologies

DotNetSlackers asks AJAX: JavaScript, or ASP .net AJAX or JQuery?

Bill Beckelman gives us a Client Side ASP.NET ListView Sorting via jQuery TableSorter Plugin Demo

Coding Standards

Amit shares a Terrible Code Example – Methods From Hell

CSS

AARON GUSTAFSON on Progressive Enhancement with CSS

Other

Stephen Walther’s Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

The Mindscape guys explain Stored procedures and LightSpeed

Craig Lindley on Building Your Own Web Server

Patterns & Practices

Torkel Ödegaard guide to View Model Inheritance in asp.net MVC

Steve Smith on insidious dependencies

Silverlight

Tess on Debugging Silverlight applications with windbg and sos.dll

Mike Snow’s Tip – Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web Service

Shawn Wildermuth on Using Isolated Storage Settings in Silverlight 2 and his MSDN article on how to Create Data-Centric Web Applications With Silverlight 2

Dave Relyea illustrates Customizing a ToolTip

Chad Campbell gives us a Silverlight 2 – Templating Video

Rob Zelt’s Silverlight 2 Timeline Panel and Silverlight 2 Controls – Styles and Templates

Jordan Knight on Silverlight and Windows Live ID Video and Silverlight, WCF, Membership, Forms Authentication and Windows Live ID and again with Expand a Silverlight control

Silverlight Web Services team announce New Web Services Features in Silverlight 2 RTW

Jesse Liberty on Sizing in Silverlight – Pixels and Stars

Bart Czernicki highlights a Big Performance Boost in Silverlight 2 RTW

Brad Abrams at AJAXWorld: Day 2 – Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

SQL

If you gotta use ‘em, do it right – SQL Server Cursor Examples

TDD

Nikolai Tillman gives us a Sneak Preview of Code Digger — The New Pex Experience as one of my work colleagues put it – “that looks bad ass”.

UX

Smashing Magazine’s Creative User Interfaces in Modern Web Design

The upcoming Designing Gestural Interfaces book now has a publication date and chapter one is available for download

WebResourcesDept lists 16 Free Ajax Contact Forms – For A Better User Experience

WPF

Mike Taulty – really nice WPF, Experiments with the CodePlex Shader Library

2008 October 21 – Links for today

The last few days have been more than a little busy and much has happened in the world at large so I better get on with it 🙂

ASP.Net

Stephen Walther presents us with A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1

Scott Guthrie’s post on ASP.NET MVC Beta Released

CSS

CSS Best Practices anyone?

David Storey on Automatic numbering with CSS Counters

Nick La with a How to: CSS Large Background

Niels Matthijs on Writing Flexible CSS

jQuery

DotNetSlackers continues the great little intro series with JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 5 and JQuery, the very very basics – Lesson 6

Chris Moyer adds his thoughts with A Programmer’s Introduction to jQuery

James Eggers on Starting With jQuery – How to Write Custom Validation Rules

Other

Megha P presents Create Progress bar in windows application

Steve Smith on getting fiddler for firefox

Matt Berseth continues his page tracking system with Updates to my Live Traffic Page

Steven Snell’s 10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing

Smashing Magazines Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions

Patterns & Practices

Tobias Mayer on Scrum Smells with When is Scrum not Scrum?

Matt Gromes continues with My First Agile Project Part 8: 9 Things We Disliked (and Liked) about

Silverlight

Nikhil Kothari on Silverlight Controls with Effects and Transitions

Bart Czernicki  discusses Silverlight and the Enterprise

Laurent Bugnion with his experiences of Redesigning my website with the help of Expression Blend

Jesse Liberty on Silverlight and Data

Laurence Moroney on developing a Panoramic Deep Zoom

Mike Taulty with Part 2 of Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability ( 2 )

Andy Beaulieu’s Physics Helper Beta 1!

Scott Barnes announces Project Deep Zoom JellyFish is out!

Terence Tsang’s great First Silverlight 2 Application: Color Picker

Pete Brown continues with How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 2 of 2

Mike Snow’s Tips: How to Create a Hyperlink and How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors

Konstantin Petkov UI Automation/Accessibility in Silverlight 2, tools and resources summary

Creating a localizable Silverlight 2.0 RTW Application

Mike Dobbles on Creating a skinnable custom control

Christopher Bennage introduces us to Frame-based Bitmap Animations in Silverlight

Headup: a discovery agent for Firefox based on Silverlight 2.

VisiFire: open source data visualization components

Paulio on Progressive Enhancement with Silverlight “use Silverlight to enhance a HTML table and scrape the data from the HTML”

Jeff Prosise COOL SILVERLIGHT TRICK #1  “allowing managed code to integrate with the browser DOM” and COOL SILVERLIGHT TRICK #2 “call directly from one control instance to the other”

Adam Kinney reckons SilverlightContrib is taking off – developing into a good looking library peeps

SQL

Louis Roy with a great little article on Test-Driven Development of T-SQL Code

TDD

Ian Cooper on ObjectMother and TestDataBuilder

UX

This one could have gone in CSS or jQuery, but really this is a UX thang I reckon. Nick La  presents a really nice CSS Dock menu much akin to Mac menus

Smashing Magazine’s 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials

Dana Chisnell on Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book

WPF

Dr. WPF with ItemsControl: ‘E’ is for Editable Collection

Sacha Barber on .NET 3.5 SP1 StringFormat Binding Property Weirdness (A Rant)

Sam Nobles WPF Elliptical Layout Control – 3D! I liked this a lot and wonder if you could make it 3d inasmuch as you could select an item from the other side of the ellipsis which would bring it to the front. i.e. selecting the item at the very back rolls the control over to that item?

2008 October 16 – Links for today

ASP.Net

JQuery

DotNetSlackers detail some Good links: ASP .NET and JQuery

Dave Bush starts his series on Getting started with jQuery and ASP.NET

CSS

Dmitry outlines a CSS Tip: Remove the Mac OS X Glowing Blue Outline for Custom Styled Input Fields

jQuery

James Eggers gives his hints on Starting With jQuery – How to Write Custom Validation Rules

Other

Jeff Atwood urges us to look into Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks. If you work with a site which uses authorization you need to look into this.

Jeffrey Way lets us know This is how you use the Google Maps API. So there.

Rob Conery looks at how to Make Visual Studio Generate Your Repository

The guys at Mindscape have announced LightSpeed 2.1 Released!

Silverlight

Mike Taulty has updated www.silverlightscreencasts.com for RTW, and adds the proviso that the vids are still based on Beta 2 and then dives into Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability

Silverlight is not going to be on the iPhone apparently, but MS are keeping their eyes on the Google Android platform

Mike Snow shows us How to Create a Tooltip

Tim Heuer gives us some pointers on Honoring your user’s culture settings with Silverlight

Xinyang Qiu releases his simple Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo “of using data grid control to display stock quotes from a web service”

Jim Galasyn lets us know that the Silverlight 2 docs are posted with some great links

Bill Reiss has (really easily) updated his PathTextBlock for Silverlight 2 RTW

Emil Stoychev proclaims that his LinkLabel control now compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW

Scott Morrison on Freezing Columns in the Silverlight DataGrid

Pete Brown illustrates How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 1 of 2

Corey Schuman explains Why use a Client Access Policy file

Nikhil Kothari on Silverlight Controls with Effects and Transitions

Surface

The Surface guys gives Developer talk with Loose Cannon Studios

TDD

Karl Seguin continues with Simplicity is key to successful unit testing – Part 2

UX

Jacob Gube lists 20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design

WPF

Laurent Bugnion on Converting and customizing XAML to PNG with server-side WPF

Ruben Steins starts his once a week extensive focus on one WPF control article series this week with Spotlight: The WPF TextBox detailing spell checking, copy-cut-paste and undo functionality. I look forward to the next one Ruben.