January 2008 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Bits – January 31, 2008

Posted on January 31, 2008 | by Alvin A.

PowerShell

Free eBook Offer For Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell (Dave Glover)
Online PowerShell Training (Jeffrey Snover)
Tab Completion (Jeffrey Snover)

Misc

Want Some WPF Improvements/Features? Tell Us. (Lester)
No, Be a Jerk (Justin Gehtland)
Confessions of a Software Developer* (Aaron Lerch)
Neudesic Announces NuCon’08 Events (Sam Gentile) – I’ll be attending the NY event.
Three Rules For Database Work (K. Scott Allen)
The Weekly Source Code 14 – Fluent Interface Edition (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

C# Generics Annoyance (Chris Brandsma)
Why Threading Is Hard (Mike Stall)
Learning .NET Debugging (Tess Ferrandez)
HealthVault Device Driver Development Kit Available on MSDN (HealthVault Device Team)

SharePoint

Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (Part 1 of 2) (Neil Hodgkinson)
SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Import Your CSS for SharePoint Themes (Heather Solomon)
SharePoint Search Bench v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft SharePoint Will “Steamroll” Web 2.0 Market, Plus Eight More Predictions From Forrester (Jon Brodkin)

Web Development

CruiseControl, VS2008 and ASP.NET MVC (Kyle Baley)
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets (Omar AL Zabir)
Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Session State and Your Options (Scott Hanselman)
New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix (Dan Fernandez)

Visual Studio

StickyNotes Available for Visual Studio 2008 on the New MSDN Code Gallery (VSX Team)
Known Issues for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 (VSX Team)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (1/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – January 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #22 (Chris Alcock)
1 Link Today (2008-01-30) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-01-31 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides): Books: Roger Wolter

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Daily Bits – January 30, 2008

Posted on January 30, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Visual Studio

ADO.NET Performance Improvements in VS2008 (Julia Lerman)
Visual Studio 2008 Comprehensive Product Comparison (Rob Caron)

Misc

Don’t Tell… Ask (J.D. Meier)
Essential Graphic Design Tools for .NET Developers (Aaron Stannard)
Requirements: Knowledge and Understanding (Scott Sehlhorst)
Top 10 Tips for Becoming the Best Blogger Ever (Justin Etheredge)
Paying It Forward, Geek-Style (Andrew Schwam)
Bulk Image Downloader for WordPress Users (Michael Sync)
Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers (Ben Watson)

.NET

When LINQ’s Power Really Sinks In (Julia Lerman)
Lang.NET 2008: Day 1 Thoughts (Charles Nutter)
Lack of Coverage Tools for .NET (Bil Simser)
Jeremy Hearts C# 3.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)

WPF

Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion – Final Chapters (Young Joo)
Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Example Application Over Northwind with the Entity Framework (Brad Abrams)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #21 (Chris Alcock)
1 Link Today (2008-01-29) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-01-30 (Sam Buchanan)
Link Listing – January 29, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert’s Voice in .Net): Books: Sayed Y. Hashimi,Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

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Daily Bits – January 29, 2008

Posted on January 29, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Community

New Software Architect’s User Group in Philly Area (Andrew Schwam)

WCF

Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications (Jeff Beehler)
Detect Client IP in WCF 3.5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Getting at the Detials (Jacob Proffitt)

.NET

C# Delegates (BlackWasp)
Book Review: C# 3.0 Cookbook [O’Reilly] (Peter Bromberg)

Career

Prefer Design Skills (Martin Fowler)
Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted! (Brad Abrams)

Web Development

A Study of Ajax Performance Issues (Dion Almaer)
ASP.NET MVC Link Collection (Simone Chiaretta)
VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released (Scott Guthrie)

WPF

Binding EF Data to the (Free) Xceed WPF Data Grid (Julie Lerman)
.NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka and Anthony Handley on WPF (MS Download)

Misc

Source Control and Continuous Integration on the Cheap (Rob Conery)
Lightweight Performance Testing with PowerShell (PowerShell Team)
What Are Hot Buttons for Microsoft on the Programming-Language Futures Front? (Mary Jo Foley)
Finally Understanding COM After Changing a Light Bulb (Jeff Moser)
I’ve Got the Iteration #1 Blues (Jeremy D. Miller)

Other Link Blogs

Best of January 2008 (Smashing Magazine)
Monday (01-28-08) edition of the d’bug link farm (Brian Reindel)
New and Notable 220 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
6 Links Today (2008-01-28) (Matt Hinze)
Links Listing – January 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
links for 2008-01-29 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #20 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

C# 3.0 Cookbook: Books: Jay Hilyard,Stephen Teilhet

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