Day: April 8, 2008

 

New “Link of the Day” feature starting today.

 

Web Application Blocks (MS Downloads)

• Web Client Composite Library for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Composite Library for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Contextual AutoComplete Application Block for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Contextual AutoComplete Application Block for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Model View Presenter Application Block for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Model View Presenter Application Block for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Responsive Composite Reference Implementation for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Responsive Composite Reference Implementation for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Modularity Application Block for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Composite Automation for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Validation Application Block for .NET Framework 2.0
• Web Client Search Application Block for .NET Framework 3.5
• Web Client Search Application Block for .NET Framework 2.0

 

Silverlight/WPF

• Silverlight 1.0 – New Maintenance Release Available and Controlling the Distribution of Silverlight Updates in the Enterprise (Tim Sneath)
• Why WPF Rock… (The Content Model) (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight Cross-Domain Policy File Helpers (Tim Heuer)
• XAML Tip: Adding a Line Break to a TextBlock (Jason N. Gaylord)

 

.NET

• LINQ and Delayed Execution (Derik Whittaker)
• Connecting to Pre-Release Versions of SQL Server 2008 – Part Deux (Debra Dove)
• Trying Out LINQ for NHibernate (Kyle Baley)
• Miado – Much-Improved ADO.NET (Chris Rauber) – Additional info on Chris’ blog here.
• Grouping LINQ Aggregates in C# (Justin Etheredge)

 

Events/Community

• Things Are Really Changing in the .NET Community (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Philly.NET Users Group Meeting – April 23rd (Bill Wolff)

 

Visual Studio

• CREATE ASSEMBLY Issue with Visual Studio SQL Server Database Projects (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Web Development

• MVC UI Validation Framework (Matt Hawley)
• 13 Reasons Why CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design (Matt Jurmann)
• ASP.NET MVC: Introducing the MVC Storefront Series and MVC Storefront, Part 2 (Rob Conery)
• Introducing Google App Engine + Our New Blog (Paul McDonald)
• Google App Engine: Your Apps in the Cloud (John Musser)
• WCF REST Services and Could Not Load File or Assembly… Error? (Rick Strahl)
• AjaxView – Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications (MS Research)

 

Design/Methodology

• Security Principles (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: Software Architecture in Practice (Evan Hoff)
• Time-to-Login-Screen, and the Absolute Basic Requirements for Good Software (Chris Myers)

 

Career

• How to Impress at Your Next Interview (Andrew Tokeley)
• When You Apply For a Job, Read the Job Posting! (Jonathan Cogley)

 

PowerShell

• My Notes For Extending PowerShell to Do Image Processing, Part I (Lou Franco)
• A Book Review of Manning’s Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette (Peter Kellner)

 

Blogging

• Strip Down Your Blog: CSS Naked Day (Lorelle VanFossen)

 

Miscellaneous

• New MSDN Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys UI – Coming Mid-Week (SubscriptionsBlogger2)
• Embedding the SharePoint Version Number Into a Word Document (Bill English)
• 5 Offbeat, Free Utilities for Everyday Tasks (Samuel Dean) – I like the screen ruler.
• Two New WSS 3.0 MSDN Visual How To’s Published (Andrew Connell)

 

Link Collections

• Morning Coffee 161 (Harry Pierson)
• Links Today (2008-04-07) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #52 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for April 7, 2008 – #246 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 4,5,6 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Finds of the Week – April 6, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #68 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day