Dew Drop - September 25, 2008
.NET / Visual Studio
- How Not to Optimize LINQ Statements (Nick Berardi)
- Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
- The Weekly Source Code 34 - The Rise of F# (Scott Hanselman)
- HowTo: Complete a WF Workflow If a Task Replicator Activity’s Tasks Haven’t Been Completed Yet (Eric Charran)
- Did You Know… You Can Use the XML Visualizer to View XML? - #321 (Sara Ford)
Silverlight / WPF
- Animating Clipping Paths in Silverlight 2 (Dan Wahlin)
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF (MS Downloads)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #45: Text Formatting with the TextBlock Control (Mike Snow)
- IsolatedStorage as a Silverlight Object Cache (Tim Heuer)
- Popfly in September (MS Popfly Team)
Web Development
- Virtual Earth Map Control SDK 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services SDK 1.0 (MS Downloads)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Pex Extensions - Release v0.7 (CodePlex)
- PostSharp 1.0 Released - Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) Framework for .NET (David Hayden)
- Little Secret (Jan Van Ryswyck) – An argument against code comments.
- The Future of Software Testing (Part 6) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day
- Arch Frame Posted to CodePlex and Abstract for Application Architecture Guid 2.0 (J.D. Meier)
- Why You REALLY Need to Think About Your Interfaces (Brian Genisio)
Events / Community
- More Microsoft PDC 2008 News (Dan Rigsby)
Miscellaneous
- Steven Sinofsky and the Windows 7 Silence (Stephen Chapman)
- Stack Overflow Podcast #23 (Jeff Atwood)
- Get Hired @ Microsoft, Episode 1: Write a Killer Resume (Dan Fernandez)
- Sources of Insight Is One Month Old (J.D. Meier)
- The Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion (Russell Ball)
- Windows 7 User Interface: Starting, Launching and Switching (Chaitanya Sareen)
- Google Moderator (Ionut Alex Chitu)
- gOS 3 Gadgets Is Up for Grabs (Cristian)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 24, 2008 and Innovation Notes: September 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Visual Studio Links #74 (Darren Stokes)
- LINKBLOG for September 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- The Morning Brew #187 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books
