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Link blog posts could be limited during PDC, but be sure to check out my daily posts on DZone’s .NET Zone next week. Also check out some of the other fine link blogs linked to below.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• PDF/A – 1b Is Now Supported by Aspose.Pdf for .NET (Usman Sarfraz)
• IronPython 2.0 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
• IntelliSense Luv for a Friday (Dave Burke)
• HOL: MSDN Virtual Labs (Joel)
• ReSharper Jedi – FizzBuzz in Under 4 Minutes (Chad Myers)
• PDC 2008: New .NET Logo (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• "The C# Programming Language Third Edition" and Thoughts on Language Evolution (Bart de Smet)
• .NET Rocks! – Frans Bouma on ORM! (MS Downloads)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Immersivity: DataGrid to ComboBox Data Binding (Dave Burke)
• Building an Error Icon in WPF (Bil Simser)
• Prism v2 – Drop 4 (Erwin van der Valk)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash: Redux (Kirstin Juhl)
• Display Images from Database in Silverlight 2 (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Storefront Part 23: WebForms and Dynamic Data (Rob Conery)
• Escaping ASP.NET Tags in Code Smith Templates (Chris Love)
• Windows PowerShell Snap-In for EC2 – Release: 1.0 (Preview 1) (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology

• SCRUM Development Process — by Ken Schwaber (Manish Agrawal)
• A Spoonful of Governance for SOA (Steve Stefanovich)

 

Events / Community

• Getting Sorted for PDC2008 (Frank Arrigo)
• LiveSide Live from PDC! (We Hope) (Kip Kniskern)
• KaizenConf – Functional Programming – Is It a Game Changer? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Taking Off for the PDC and an Eleven Hour Flight (Clemens Reijnen)
• Keep Your Laptop Safe When Travelling (Adam Pash)
• Sara Ford Visual Studio Book Signing at PDC 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• If There’s One Thing You See at PDC… (Mark Miller)
• Where I Will Be During Microsoft PDC 2008 (Dan Rigsby)
• BCL Team at PDC 2008 (Justin Van Patten)
• Where You Can Find Me at PDC 2008 (Me)
• PDC 2008 – Here We Go! (Andrew Connell)
• PDC 2008 – The Main Event (Andrew Woodward)
• Introducing the Release Development Status Field, and Other New Features (Sara Ford)
• PDC Sessions Master List… and More and Watch Out for Hoobert at PDC (Steve Clayton)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Simulate INNER JOIN Using LEFT JOIN Statement – Performance Analysis (Pinal Dave)
• Did You Know? You Can Win a Copy of My Next Book (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• NXE – What You Want to Know: Netflix and Video Store (Sara N.)
• Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta and Download Microsoft PC Advisor and Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery (Paul Thurrott)
• Learn to Develop iPhone Applications Screencast Series from Pragmatic Programmers (David Hayden)
• Best MSFT Benefit: "Getting to Be Who I Am" (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• JetBrains Seeder Program (Mo Khan)
• Further Examination of .NET Framework Features Survey (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Aaron and Mike Show (Aaron Lerch)
• The New Xbox Experience Preview Program (Larry Hryb)
• Heads Up: Required Update to Live Mesh Coming Next Week (Live Mesh Team)
• Manage WordPress Blog Comments in AIR (Josh Lowensohn)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 — $405 and Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 – 2 — #406 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #81 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for October 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.24~2008.10.25 (yuanjian)

 

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