c# Design patterns

design patterns are key to any modern software projects such as adapter, facade etc. There are wonderful books on the market such as the Gang of Four's classic and of course Head First Design patterns available from Reilly at .However these books are written for a Java audience but here is great site that is C# orientated click here

Silverlight 3 Article Navigator

Just put the first version of my SL navigator that uses a Coverflow to show that list of PDFs and notes that I have submitted to my blog. Also makes heavy use of the Vectorlight Richtext control (thanks). It requires SL 3 but has been released (July 12). check it out

VectorLight Controls for Silverlight

vectorlight offers an amazing array of high quality controls. I have been using the their RichText and am very impressed especailly since the price is right, free for now. It makes me wonder why anyone would pay the extra for Telerik or ComponentOne. Many of their controls are in the Toolkit or are available free.

silverlight Coverflow

Just found a great Coverflow for Silverlight that can be used royality free,the demo is very cool, so click here

RIA Data services Chapter 3

Chapter 3 looks at populating a Datagrid and Dataform using an object hierarchy and investigates the impressive change management for the child objects in the form.
click here for PDF and here for the code

Ria data services Chapter 2 (Objects Only)

chapter 2 (Look Mom no database) will show that the .NET RIA Services focus on the end-to-end use of data, it may be retrieved through a Data Access Layer (DAL) of your choice include POCO as this PDF and code

RIA Data services

I have been playing around with RIA Data Services for a while and must say this is pretty cool stuff as it makes writting multi-tier apps so easy. I am writing a series of articles :
1. Introduction to RIA Data services that you download the PDF here
or code

Silverlight Host Page QueryString

One of the things you will want to do at some point is get access to the query string parameters passed to the page hosting your Silverlight application.

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
{
string test;
if (HtmlPage.Document.QueryString.Count > 0)
test = HtmlPage.Document.QueryString["fid"] ;
this.RootVisual = new Page();
}