Month: January 2008

.NET

• How To: Read From a Locked Text File (Anatoly Lubarsky)
• CLR Fun Stuff: How Is My C# Code Converted Into Machine Instructions? (Shafqat Ahmed)
• From the .NET Developer’s Journal Archives: A Talk With the Father of C# (Derek Ferguson)
• HashSet versus Dictionary Cage Match (Justin Etheredge)

Misc

• Deconstructing ObjectBuilder – What Is ObjectBuilder? (Chris Tavares)
• Hey PowerShell Guy, How Can I Sort the Contents of a Text File in Numerical Order? (Marc van Orsouw)
• Did You Know… You Can Create a Silverlight Streaming Application in Minutes? (Jesse Liberty)
• Google Docs in Firefox Sidebar (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Two Days Left to Snag a Free R# 4.0 License (Russell Ball)
• How To: Add Holidays to Outlook 2007 Calendar (Keith Elder)
• Reminder: MIT Open Courseware (Jason Haley)
• How To: Create a Static IP Address For Your Home Server (Terry Walsh)
• Why Office Gurus Are Bad (and the Buses Who Hit Them) (Max Pool)
• Blog Survey Results (Daniel Moth)

WCF

• Authenticating Users With Supporting Tokens in WCF (Pablo M. Cibraro)
• WCF Latency Test Harness Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML 5 Spec Released, Warts and All (Matthew Magain)

SQL Server

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap Clarification (Francois Ajenstat) Looks like 3Q for SQL Server.
• SQL Injection Cheat Sheet (Ferruh Mavituna)

Testing

• Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications (Josh Smith)
• Whitebox vs. Blackbox Testing (Location of Unit Tests) (Derik Whittaker)

 

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 219 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (1/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 26 (Rhonda Tipton)
• links for 2008-01-28 (Sam Buchanan)
• The Morning Brew #19 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – January 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day

 

Misc

• I Don’t Trust Me (Chad Myers)
• Copilot Is Now Free on Weekends (Joel Spolsky)
• Long Methods Are Natural (Michael Feathers)
• Latest DLR Hosting Spec (John Lam)
• Helvetica: The Documentary (Mike Swanson)
• Product Development Diciplines at Microsoft (Prakash Sundaresan)

Web Development

• Displaying [foo] on Every Page of an ASP.NET MVC Application (Aaron Lerch)

WPF

• WPF Basics: Expression Blend and Visual Studio – A Good Partnership (Ged Mead)

 

Other Link Blogs

• LINKBLOG for January 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof) Arjan has a lot of great links today.
• links for 2008-01-27 (Sam Buchanan)

 

Book of the Day

 

Visual Studio

• Unit Testing Starter – Visual Studio 2008 (coolestCoder)
• Walkthrough: Building a Mobile Game in Visual Studio 2008 (Justin Whitney)
• Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 (MS Downloads)
• Announcing RTW Version of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) (WebDevTools)

Misc

• My Development Tools (Christopher Bennage)
• Your Top 5 Blogs (Trevor Green) (My picks: Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Jeremy D. Miller, Jay Kimble, Jeff Atwood)
• PowerShell to Test Your XPath (Josh Twist)
• My XBox 360 Is Blogging, and I Didn’t Even Know About It (Bil Simser)
• Should I Blog? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Sudoku Algorithm: Structures and Backtracking (The ANZAC)

.NET

• Introduction to the New .NET 3.5 HashSet Class (Justin Etheredge)
• ADO.NET Entity Designer & Developer Productivity (Marcelo LR)
• Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release: Milestone 1 (CodePlex) (Check out their home page here.)

Web Development

• .NET Rocks! – Dino Esposito on AJAX Architecture (MS Downloads)
• HTML 5, the Dialog Tag, and Microformats (Nikhil Kothari)
• Flotzam: Mashing Up the Web (Tim Sneath)

 

Other Link Blogs

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2008 and Interesting Finds: January 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• 1 Link Today (2008-01-25) and 1 Link Today (2008-01-26) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for January 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• links for 2008-01-26 (Sam Buchanan)

 

Book of the Day