February 2008 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Links – February 24, 2008

Posted on February 24, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Web Development

MS ASP.NET MVC Source (Andrew Stopford)
Microsoft Moves Towards IE8 Beta (Chris)
Announcing ASP.NET MVC in Action (from Manning) (Jeffrey Palermo)
Reviewing Unity (Oren Eini)

.NET

One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL (Beth Massi) – Not “one-too-many”, like I mistakenly read it at first. 🙂
.NET Client Application Services (Daniel Moth)

Misc

4 Corollaries For Highly Effective Developers (Russell Ball)
The Challenges of Maintenance Programming (Justin James)
A Note on Reading, Technology and Mental Illness (Jesse Liberty)
Layers and SOA (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
MSBuild vs. NAnt (Oren Eini)
Code CAN Be Beautiful (Russ Gray)

SharePoint

Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint? (Bil Simser)

Community/Jealousy

The Bahamas .NET User Group (Kyle Baley)

Visual Studio

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio Extensibility: Keyvan Nayyeri: Books

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Daily Bits – February 23, 2008

Posted on February 23, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight

First Look at Silverlight 2 (Scott Guthrie)
Upcoming Silverlight 2 Talks and Webcasts (Pete Brown)
Another Preview of the Controls in Silverlight 2! (Kathy Kam)

.NET

F# Add-In Now Part of SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 1 (Robert Pickering)
Iterators, LINQ Deferred Execution and Prime Numbers Computation (Patrick Smacchia)
Simple LINQ to Object Example with Casting (Derik Whittaker)
CSLA .NET 3.0.4 Refresh Available and CSLA .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Now Available (Rocky Lhotka)
What Makes Some Code Confusing? (Jonathan Cogley)
Entity Framework Webinar (Glenn Block)
A WPF Drag-and-Drop TreeView Sample Joins 75 Others (mpochimcherla)
Ayende’s Design Guidelines: Rule #1 (Oren Eini)
LINQ to Everything – LINQ to XSD Adds More LINQiness (Scott Hanselman)
Another C# Legacy HTML Parser Using Tag Processing (Ruxo Zheng)
Dynamic Type Support in C#? Sweet! (James Manning)
Slinq – Streaming LINQ – Release v0.3.5 (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

Hooked on VIM and ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Builds (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Web Client 2.0, What’s the Hold Up? (Glenn Block)
WEBCAST: Microsoft Robotics Studio – An Introduction and WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Building Workflow Services (WF + WCF) with Visual Studio 2008 (Marc)
Some Other Assertions in VS Unit (David Starr)
How to View Code That Is Covered By the IntelliSense Pop-Up (tipster)
PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designer – Release: ModelingPowerToys for VS2008 (CodePlex)

SharePoint

My Code Samples (Previously Hosted on GotDotNet) (Stefan Goßner)
An Easier Way to Create SharePoint Feature Solutions (Adam Hems)
MySite Pages and Architecture (Mark Arend)
Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map v2 (Erika Ehrli & Rob Barker)
Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Geographically (Brenda Carter)

Misc

Open Thread: Do You Wiki? (Mike Gunderloy)
Major Sea-Change for Microsoft and Open Source (Bill Zack)
You Suck at Photoshop #7 (Donnie Hoyle)
TDD Considered Harmful? (Jacob Proffitt)

PowerShell

Help Wanted: PowerShell Usability Studies in Redmond (Jeffrey Snover)
Embedding PowerShell in IronPython and Vice Versa (Steve Gilham)

Career

Balancing Work & Family (Allan Branch)
An Effective .NET Interview (admin)

Web Development

Unity IoC Screencast (David Hayden)
TRULY Understanding ViewState, the Comment Index (Dave Reed)
ASP.NET MVC: Making Strongly-Typed ViewPages More Easily (Steve Sanderson)

Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: February 22, 2008 (partial list) and Interesting Finds: February 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Link Listing – February 22, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
LINKBLOG for February 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
3 Links Today (2008-02-22) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed: Stephen Walther: Books

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Daily Bits – February 22, 2008

Posted on February 22, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Community

Code Camp – So What If They Laugh at You? (Justin Saraceno)

WPF/Silverlight

WPF and Silverlight 2.0 Themes – Reuxables (Pete Brown)
WPF Master Pages (Rob Relyea)
A RedmondMag Article on Silverlight 2.0 Beta Availability, MIX08 and … (Zhiming Xue)
View Antique Books with Silverlight (or WPF) (G. Andrew Duthie)

.NET

Discovering Empty Try/Catch Blocks (Christopher Bennage)
C# .NET Gmail Tools (quamtar)
Coming Soon to LINQ to SQL (Faisal Mohamood)
ADO.NET Sync Services (Daniel Moth)
.NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool (Michael C. Kennedy)

Misc

HealthVault and Openness (Eric Gunnerson)
Testy Development (Jacob Proffitt)
Versioning Issues with Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces (Phil Haack)
The Sweet Sound of a Million Microsoft Haters’ Heads Exploding (Craig Shoemaker)
Do Not Learn Ruby (webmat)
Tools for Authoring NAnt Build Files (Boyan Kostadinov)
LINQ to Mock: MoQ Is Born (Daniel Cazzulino)
Microsoft Research Virtual WiFi (MS Research)

Visual Studio

SharePoint

SmartTools for SharePoint – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 20, 2008 and Link Listing – February 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
LINKBLOG for February 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (2/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: February 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
1 Link Today (2008-02-21) (Matt Hinze)
The Morning Brew #38 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008: Joseph C. Rattz: Books

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