Every software development has its stepwise procedure of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and its maintenance. And testing may be kind of many types like Black-box, White-box, Alpha, Beta, Unit, Milestone etc. Many of the development through Visual Studio 2010 needs to be tested before the actual product launch or distribution. Programmer has to make sure to have a command over their code what they have written through Unit Testing.

The Typemock Isolator 2010 is unit testing tool, for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, which takes control over hectic methods and Code snippet. It occupies less testing code and simplifies unit testing by simpler and cleaner code. It provides support for variety of .NET Framework Technology including including WCF, WPF, SharePoint, Asp.Net and Silverlight.

This add in for VS 2010 auto-completes  and generates the cods and gives the developer to isolate or mock any method of class in a programe , such as Public, Private and Protected methods or Abstract or static class. It verifies the call arguments by delivering different fake objects and control behavior.

The Typemock Isolator Unit testing tool is simple to implement, easy to handle and contains simple API. It also supports the older .NET technologies rather then .NET 4.0.

Microsoft made an announcement of Silverlight 4 RC availability at MIX10 now they have launched special training course kit for the download.

The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 RC features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4.

This Training Course is the result of effort from a great developers like John Papa and Adam Kinney.

Download Silverlight 4 Training Course

Microsoft has released the next version of Silverlight. Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity. Also, in order to fully integrate all the .NET developer tools, Visual Studio 2010 will support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight.

• more detailed list of new features
• Silverlight 3 download and installation
• Microsoft® Silverlight^TM 3 SDK
• Microsoft® Silverlight^TM 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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One of the big feature points of Silverlight is the creation of media rich applications, and of course the use of Silverlight in advertising solutions. But until today there was not much to be found as to documentation and guidelines on creating advertising banners and solutions. Now this has changed with the release of the Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit. Download it by following link.

Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit

This document discusses in detail several aspects of creating ads using Silverlight 2. It covers topics such as general ad creation, tracking actions, ad synchronization, and expandable ads. All information in this document targets Silverlight 2, which is the recommended ad format over Silverlight 1.0.

Following topics are handled in the document:

• Creating Polite Ads
• Tracking Actions (Event Handling)
• Ad synchronization
• clickTAG Support
• Expanding Ads
• Optimization Techniques

Sample projects are available to be used together with the documentation. The following types of samples are available:

• clickTAG Ad example
• Expandable Ad example
• Impression Ad example
• Polite Ad
• Synchronized Ad example

You might also be interested in the following session videos from the recent Mix ’09 conference:

• Silverlight and Advertising
• Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application

Use the information and samples in this kit together with the Silverlight Ad Publishing and Serving Guide.

Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning (our mother org) experts. Each Snack is delivered by using Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos.

Check out this new snack on Windows 7 | Silverlight Snack Player

(UPDATED) New Windows 7 learning Snacks available now

This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.

More info with screenshots >>

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This download will install the following:

• Silverlight 3 developer runtime
• Silverlight 3 software development kit
• KB967143 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  KB967144 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
• Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  and/or
  Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes:

• Visual Basic and C# Project templates
• Intellisense and code generators for XAML
• XAML design preview
• Debugging of Silverlight applications
• Remote debugging of Silverlight applications for Mac
• Web reference support
• WCF Templates
• Team Build and command line build support
• Support for cached transparent assemblies
• Support for ASP.NET server integration.