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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
• Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
• ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
• Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
• There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
• Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
• The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
• Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
• .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
• Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
• SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
• Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
• Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
• How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)

Database

• Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
• SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
• SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
• Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)

PowerShell

• DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
• Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
• Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
• Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
• Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
• IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
• Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
• The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
• Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)

Link-O-Rama

• Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
• Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
• Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
• T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
• Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
• Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
• 5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
• C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
• What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

 

Events / Community

• Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
• CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
• Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
• Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
• Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
• Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
• How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

 

SharePoint

• Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
• LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
• SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

 

Web Development

• AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
• My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
• A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

 

Miscellaneous

• Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
• The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
• Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
• Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
• Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
• .NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
• Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
• Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

 

SQL Server

• Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Expert 2008 Business Objects Tentative TOC (Rocky Lhotka)
• Project Anti-Patterns: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File (Chad Myers)
• Rules for CLR Add-Ins Contract and View Assemblies (Patrick Smacchia)
• IronPython 1.1.2 RC (Harry Pierson)
• .NET-Fu: Zero Delay Signing of an Unsigned Assembly (Schalk Neethling)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access (Stephen Walther)
• West Wind Ajax Toolkit Updated (Rick Strahl)
• New Modules for IIS7: Application Request Routing – Proxy and Load Balancing Module (Scott Hanselman)
• National Public Radio to Launch NPR API (Andres Ferrate)

 

Silverlight

• Tip of the Day #18: How to Set Browser Cookies (Mike Snow)
• CSLA Light Preview Release (Rocky Lhotka)
• Creating a Simple Pivot Table Using LINQ and RadTreeView for Silverlight (Emil Stoychev)

 

Design / Methodology

• Architecture by Baseball: Jargon (Larry Clarkin)
• Silver Bullet Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Object-Firster or Data-Firster: DDD Is for CRUD Apps (Jarod Ferguson)
• What Is More Important – Design or Content? (Tom)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update Released (Michael Watson)
• Using Regular Expressions to Build SPList Collections (Adam Buenz)
• PowerShell Building Blocks for SharePoint: Initial Release (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Learning Erlang – Erlang Gaining Momentum (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Joining Microsoft (Hamilton Verissimo)
• The Ultimate Software Gold Plating (Jeff Atwood)
• Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Grouping in XQuery (Erik Wilde)
• Wordpress Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open (Sunshine)
• Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 (John Biggs)
• The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a User Is Hard! (Anne Botha)
• Osla: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud (Darryl K. Taft)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 15, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #90 (Tim Boland)
• Morning Coffee 168 (Harry Pierson)
• LINKBLOG for July 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #52 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (7/15/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 — #325 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – July 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #137 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for July 16, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

 

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Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
• Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
• Browser Resize – How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
• What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
• WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
• Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
• LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
• Functional C# Revisited – Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VSX Developer Center Update – June 2008 (VSX Team)
• uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

 

Web Development

• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
• 5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

 

SharePoint

• Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
• SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Miscellaneous

• Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
• 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
• How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
• Microsoft Videos – Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
• Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
• Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
• Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
• The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

 

Events / Community

• Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – June 5, 2008 and Link Listing – June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
• Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

 

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