Dew Drop – September 30, 2008 (Evening Edition)
Sick today, so the Dew Drop is a bit late.
.NET / Visual Studio
- Introducing Lucene.Net (Andrew Smith)
- Visual Studio 2010 to Come with ‘Black Box’ (Ina Fried)
- VSTS 2010: Check Out All the Latest News (Angela Binowski)
- Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions Framework (Brad Abrams)
- IComparer vs IEqualityComparer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Object Oriented F# – Creating Classes (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Announcing Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
- Team Developer + Team Data = Team Developer! (Gert Drapers)
- Generic C# WinForms (Chris Brandsma)
- More MEF Samples and Launch of MEF Contrib (Glenn Block)
- Trivial but Useful Extension Method (Avi Pilosof)
- VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0 and Architectural Validation and Synchronization (Cameron Skinner)
- How Do Locks Lock? (Jeff Moser)
- Our Cries Have Finally Been Answered Then? (Granville Barnett)
- LINQ Farm: Preserving Formatting with LINQ to XML (Charlie Calvert)
- Visual Basic Guru Moves to Microsoft’s "Oslo" Team (Darryl K. Taft)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Which Microsoft Virtualization Solution to Use for Software Testing (Dennis Dietrich)
- Reflection – Iteration 7 (Sara Chipps)
- Decorator Pattern (David Hayden)
- Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You (Michael C. Kennedy)
- Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling (Jeremy D. Miller)
Silverlight / WPF
- Kuler Add-In for Expression Blend (Frank La Vigne)
- Kuler for Expression Design and Blend (Corey Miller)
- Isolated Storage – Might Be Easier Than You Think and Dependency Property System – Deeper Dive Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
- Silverlayout – Simple Actionscript Layout Library (Chris Cavanagh)
- Book Review: Manning’s Silverlight 2 in Action – Chad Campbell and John Stockton (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight Multi-File Upload Controls and Patterns (Tim Heuer)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #47 – How to Implement a Password Box and #48 – How to Implement a ComboBox and #49 – How to Implement a Progress Bar and #51 – How to Enable and Disable Controls and #52 – How to Popup a Browser Window and #53 – MessageBox Is Now Available in Silverlight 2 (Mike Snow)
- XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines (Paul Stovell)
- Step Into The Art & Technology (Faisal Hossain Khan)
- Surprised by WPF DataGrid (Mike Taulty)
- What’s New in Silverlight 2 RC0 (Denislav Savkov)
Web Development
- Column Ordering, Paging and Filtering in the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)
- Book Review: DHTML Utopia (Larry Clarkin)
- What Is ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Rachel Appel)
- Service Referencing ADO.NET Data Service and A Simple Balloon Shooting Silverlight Game (Xinyang Qiu)
- My MVC Starter Template (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
- AJAX Enhancements in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Use UTF-8 Encoding in HTTP Requests (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Database
- SQL IF/WHILE Blocks – SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008) (MS Downloads)
- Using Covering Indexes to Improve Query Performance (Joe Webb)
SharePoint
- Writing Extension Methods for SharePoint (Adam Buenz)
- Linq4SP RC1 (Agnes Molnar)
Events / Community
- Events This Week – September 29th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode #13: Staying Sane in Today’s Software Development World with Billy Hollis (Keith Elder)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Launches Phone Data Manager Beta (Brad Linder)
- Getting Started with EUnit (Mitchell Hashimoto)
- Statistical Validation of the IE8 XSS Filter (Russ McRee)
- PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles (Lee Holmes)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: September 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Blog Carnival #5 (Eyal Lantzman)
- Triple Shot Links #3 (Russell Ball)
- LINKBLOG for September 29, 2008 and LINKBLOG for September 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Silverlight News for September 29, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
- Visual Studio Links #75 (Darren Stokes)
- Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2008 — #382 and Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2008 — #383 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #190 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #302 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 – October 1, 2008 (Bob McIlree)
- Silverlight News for September 30, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
Book of the Day
Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Luke Hohmann: Books
Get well soon! Admire you for even getting an edition out the door when being sick
Thanks