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Book News

• Our New Book - Beginning ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Look Ma, I’m on a Book Cover (Simone Chiaretta) – Congrats, guys! Let me know if you need a book reviewer. 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WinForms Model View Presenter (C. Green)
• How .NET 3.5 SP1 Broke Rhino Mocks (Oren Eini)
• Expression Tree Normalization - How Many Ways to Say "String == String"? and Curry for Dummies (Bart de Smet)
• .NET 3.5 SP1: Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing (Matthew Podwysocki)
• How to Create a Visio Importer for Team Architect Rosario (Clemens Reijnen)
• Hidden Gems - Not the Same Old 3.5 SP1 Post (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• New Refactoring Video: Extract Method to Type (Mark Miller)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows Managed Code to Be Launched From a Network Share! (Vance Morrison via Brad Abrams)
• WCF, WS-* and REST in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Screencast - Creating Your First WCF Service (Sam Gentile)
• .NET Rocks! - Brad Abrams and Omar Khan Announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS2008 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft FxCop 1.36 (MS Downloads) – Adds support for .NET 3.5 SP1.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Deferred Execution Gotchas (Jimmy Bogard)
• What’s an Auto Mocking Container? (Mike Hadlow)
• Multi Tenancy - Multi Tentant Apps and Frameworks and DSL Patterns - User Extensible Language and DSL Patterns - Multi File DSLs (Oren Eini)
• Benefits of Object Persistence (Thomas Jaeger)
• Test Doubles: When to (Not) Use Them (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF

• DataBinding to Property Bags and Dictionaries in WPF (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Advantages Over Flash (Not Another Silverlight vs. Flash) (Bart Czernicki)
• CSLA Light Data Provider (Rocky Lhotka)
• Is This My Project or Yours? (Brian Hunter)
• Drag and Drop Silverlight Example (Corey Schuman)
• Dabbling Around the New WPF DataGrid (Part 1) and (Part 2) - Show Me Some Code and (Part 3) - Styling (Jaime Rodriguez)

Web Development

• Better URLs with Subtext and Windows Live Writer and Filters in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 (Phil Haack)
• Strongly-Typed ViewData Without a Code-Behind (Tim Barcz)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #32 - Repopulate Form Fields with ViewData.Eval() (Stephen Walther)
• Simple Online CMS (Joel Ross)
• Visual Studio SP1 and The Metafication of REST (K. Scott Allen)
• Set Browser Specific ASP.NET Server Control Properties and Taking an ASP.NET Site Offline (Ryan Farley)

Database

• Get DateTime in Any Format – UDF (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Tip: Status Bar Custom Colors (Joni Moilanen via Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Stack Overflow Podcast #17 (Jeff Atwood)
• Code Cast #11 - Mark Miller (David Starr)
• .NET Rocks! - 64-Bit with Brian Peek (MS Downloads)
• The Potential of Live Mesh Is Limitless… (Live Mesh Team)
• Lian Li’s Xbox 360 RRoD-Relief Chassis Now Shipping (Thomas Ricker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2008 — #345 and Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2008 - 2 — #346 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing - August 13, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #158 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 14, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Double Shot #269 (Mike Gunderloy)
• WSOAC#28 - Series on Multi-Tenant Applications (Dilip Krishnan)

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