February 2008 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Bits – February 21, 2008

Posted on February 21, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Misc

Programming Self-Generating Code for Windows Applications (Jim Charles)
On Hiring a Brainy Developer (Jay Kimble)
Joystiq Live From the Microsoft GDC Keynote (G. Andrew Duthie)
Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard’s Approach to Multiplayer Game Design and Session: Taking Xbox Live Arcade Games to the Next Level (Dan Fernandez)
Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Zune (David Weller)
HealthVault: Opening Up the Vault! and HealthVault: Offline Access Sample (VaibhavB)
Which Is the Must-Have Skill For a Software Developer? (Abhijit Nadgouda)
Pattern Focus: Singleton v2.0 (Patrik Löwendahl)
The SharePoint Developer – New Job (Paul Andrew)
Dude, This Sucks! (Neil Versel)
The Mission of a Software Architect (Rainer Eschen)
SharePoint Bootcamp Tickets on Sale (Heather Solomon)
JackFlash Gadget Factory – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

.NET

Do try..catch Blocks Hurt Runtime Performance? (pheaven)
WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008 (Marc)
LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
The Weekly Source Code 15 – Duct Tape Edition (Scott Hanselman)
Working with Lambda Expressions (Brian Mains)
Workflow Foundation 101 (Maurice de Beijer)
Writing Better Code – Keepin’ It Extensible (Matthew Cochran)

Web Development

Manage Your ASP.NET Web.config Files Using NAnt (JKealey)
Update to wwScriptVariables Server to Client Variable Container (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio

P/Invoke Library – VS 2005 & 2008 Add-In (Ernest Laurentin)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-02-21 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #37 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on: Books: Craig McMurtry,Marc Mercuri,Nigel Watling

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Daily Bits – February 20, 2008

Posted on February 20, 2008 | by Alvin A.

SQL Server

How to Login to SQL Management Studio If Your Default Database Has Been Deleted (Derik Whittaker)
SQL Server Alerts: Soup to Nuts (Robyn Page & Phil Factor)
SQL Server 2008 Feb CTP, MS SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack CTP, Feb 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Books Online CTP (Feb 2008) (MS Downloads) – Updated samples are also available on CodePlex.
Start PowerShell in Management Studio (Allen M. White)

.NET

LINQ to SQL and Stored Procedures (David Hayden)
.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap (Scott Guthrie)
Visual LINQ: Watch Query Expressions as They Happen! (Jon Skeet)
Creating Your Own Provider Framework (Joel Ross)

WPF

The Importance of Learning Expression Blend (Josh Smith)

Misc

10 Things Project Managers Wish Developers Understood (Frank Kelly)
Development of Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)
Blog Roll: VS Team System Team, Blog Roll: VS TFS Team and Blog Roll: VS Team System Development Team (Charles Sterling)
Building Sandcastle Documentation with Team Build (Grant Holliday)
It’s Not OK to Skip the Standup (Travis Illig)
Top 10 Application Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen)

Visual Studio

VSX: Migrating VS 2005 Packages to VS 2008 (Quan To)

Web Development

Creating an AJAX-Enabled Calendar Control (Scott D. Smith)
Silverlight 2.0: The Wait Is Almost Over (Kathleen Richards)
ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, AppDomain and Friends (Gustavo Duarte)
Precompilation in ASP.NET 2.0 (K. Scott Allen) – An oldie but a goodie.
A JavaScript Stack Trace in ASP.NET AJAX (Joel Rumerman)
High Memory Usage with UserControls in IE (Using Debug Diag) (Tess Ferrandez)
Creating CodeSmith Templates (Brian Mains)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 18, 2008 and Link Listing – February 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
6 Links Today (2008-02-19) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for February 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (2/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #36 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series): Books: Martin Fowler

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, .net, wpf, asp.net, books, sql server

Daily Bits – February 19, 2008

Posted on February 19, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Miscellaneous

Advanced Messaging with a Dash of DDD (Udi Dahan)
Microsoft Releases Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats (via DotNetKicks)
First News About “Office 14” (Joris Poelmans)
DreamSpark: Free Microsoft Software For Students (Dan Fernandez)
Team System Website on MSDN – We Are Listening and Tutorial on Creating Your Own FXCop Rules (Charles Sterling)
Understanding IoC Container (Sean Feldman)
7 Habits of Highly Effective Freelance Programmers (Sunil Bhatia)

.NET

LINQ Books (Charlie Calvert)
Creating a Real-Time Trace Listener with WCF (Paul B.)
Coolite: Ext JavaScript ASP.NET Web Controls (via DotNetKicks)

WPF

The Complete List of XAML Tools (Miguel Carrasco)
Having a Wii Bit of Fun (Rudi Grobler)

Silverlight

Islands of Richness with Silverlight on an ASP.NET Page (Brad Abrams)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration (Vishal R. Joshi)
Building an N-Layer ASP.NET Application with LINQ, Lambdas and Stored Procedures (Dan Wahlin)
Simple GridView Radio Button Row Selector (Adam Crawford)

SharePoint

Advanced SharePoint Videos and Whitepapers (SharePoint Team)
SharePoint SmartTemplates for Visual Studio 2008 v0.2 (CodePlex)

SQL Server

Command-Line SQL Static Code Analysis (Gert Drapers)
SQL: If Exists Update Else Insert (Jeremiah Clark)
Visual Studio 2008 Support for SQL Server 2008 CTP (MS Downloads)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: February 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #35 (Chris Alcock)
10 Links Today (2008-02-18) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects: Books: Jared Richardson,William Gwaltney

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