Daily Bits – March 4, 2008

Visual Studio

• More “How Do I?” Videos for TFS 2008 (Angela Binkowski)
• The ABCDEFGHI of Setting Up Visual Studio for Demos (Daniel Moth)

Events/Community

• Big Things Happening This Week (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX08 Schedule Picks (Brad Abrams)
• MIX08 for Non-Attendees (Tim Sneath)
• Heading to MIX08 and Tweeting Along the Way (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight/WPF

• Slide.Show (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New Devs4Devs Video Released! Silverlight – What, Where and How? (Dave)
• Microsoft and Nokia Get Together on Silverlight (Robert Scoble)
• Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition Joins 4 Others in the WPF Showcase (WindowsClient.net)

Web Development

• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why My ASP.NET AJAX Forms Are Never Submitted Twice (Dave Ward)
• Now This Is Ridiculous (Generics in JavaScript) (Adrian Kosmaczewski)

.NET

• Followup on .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool Bug (Michael C. Kennedy)
• LazyParser.NET 0.9.1 Has Been Published on CodePlex (Philippe Leybaert)
• .NET Reflector 5.1 Released (Lutz Roeder)
• C# Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)

Misc

• Six Months in the Inside – Am I Evil Yet? and 2008 Windows Scription Games – Advanced PowerShell Event 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• 101 x 101 Articles on Becoming an Architect (Simon Guest)
• 45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation (Vandelay)
• Three Cheers for Microsoft! The Web Is About to Improve Big-Time (speednet)
• MSN Toolbar Beta Now Available for Download (Simon Kerbel)

SQL Server

• A Simple Way to Defragment All Indexes in a Database That Is Fragmented Above a Declared Threshold (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Now Available: SharePoint End User Handbook (Andrew Connell)
• What the 0x80072020? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #45 (Chris Alcock)
• Bits for March 3, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Morning Coffee 152 (Harry Pierson)
• 2 Links Today (2008-03-03) (Matt Hinze)

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