On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Eleven Shared Sources

Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer!

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me

Eleven Shared Sources,

Ten Berkun Chapters,

Nine Channel Rocking,

Eight Students Portal,

Seven IE plus one,

Six free e-learning,

Five BizTalk VLabs,

Four Demystifying Programs,

Three Products Launching,

Two cool industry conferences,

And the source code to Tafiti.

If you are like me, you learn by seeing and doing. The way I see, is by reviewing source code. So as we wrap up this eggnog spirit, I'd like to close out the penultimate post with some great projects with source, in no particular order...

1. The .NET StockTrader Sample Application - This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0) and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative technologies within .NET and their relative performance. The application offers full interoperability with J2EE and IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 sample application. As such, the application offers an excellent opportunity for developers to learn about .NET and building interoperable, service-oriented applications. 
2. The next three applications from Vertigo.com - very well done with source and sample videos! Family.Show - a WPF reference application.
3. Slide.Show - a Silverlight 1.0 reference application.
4. Video.Show - another Silverlight application with Silverlight Streaming.
5. A Software + Services reference application from our Architecture Strategy Team: Litware HR - the November 2007 update. Watch the screencasts and more. As GP says: "If you look at what we did with LitwareHR v2, we took a "pure" SaaS application and took it to a "higher level" by allowing smart client access, offline, rich visualization, office integration, leveraging of cloud building block such as silverlight streaming, without changing the existing "pure" SaaS model. I think it is a good example of a solution that embraces the S+S model without breaking the existing SaaS model"
6. Everybody needs more Outlook...with WPF flair? A Hands-on-lab for WPF: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/events/hol/wpf.mspx
7. Goodies from Clarius Consulting at http://www.codeplex.com/clarius. I particularly like the Storyboard Designer - are you using it?
8. Paint.Net, enough said!
9. Does it work with Windows Live Writer? BlogEngine.NET - "may be the simplest and most light weight ASP.NET blog at the moment, but still full featured." More ASP.NET starter kits and community projects are hosted here.
10. DinnerNow.NET - hasn't lost its charm, but needs updating for RTM bits. The demo utilizes several technologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax Extensions, LINQ, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows PowerShell, and the .NET Compact Framework.
11. And the mother of all shared sources from Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx. And no, I haven't seen the hairball ;)

P.S. I'm particularly fond of Port25. Are you?

Wishing you more Holiday Cheer!