Dew Drop – April 15, 2008

Silverlight

• Silverlight – Dynamically Loading an Assembly (Mike Taulty)
• MS Silverlight 2.0 Goodies – Open Source Rich Charting Controls and a 3D Library (Dave)
• Silverlight 2: Layout and Rendering Engines (Ashish Shetty)
• Create a Video Player in Silverlight 2 – Part 2 (Corey Schuman)
• IsolatedStorage in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight / IronRuby Using Controls (Jim)
• Microsoft Silverlight Boom Predicted (Cristian)

Web Development

• DLRScript 0.5 Notes… (Jay Kimble)

.NET

• Unhandled Exceptions – Handle Them (Shahar Yair)
• WCF Security Guide from Patterns and Practices (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Automating DOC to PDF Conversion (Josh Poley)
• Session, ForEach, and a ShallowCopy Walk Into a Bar… (Michael C. Neel)
• LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 2: Building the Client (Beth Massi)
• .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• The LINQ ‘let’ Keyword (Justin Etheredge)
• Designing With Lambdas – Part II (Sergio Pereira)
• Batch Updates and Deletes with LINQ to SQL (Chris Cavanagh)
• IronRuby Revision 93 Posted (Aaron Junod)

Design/Methodology

• Test First Development (Evan Hoff)

SharePoint

• MOSS2007 – Visual Studio 2008 Testing (Search) and MOSS2007 – Visual Studio 2008 Testing (Load Test) (Liam Cleary)

SQL Server

• SQL Puzzle: Hours Stored As Integers (Denis Gobo)
• Change Order of Column in Database Tables (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• INETA Gets a New Look (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Dino’s .emacs File (Dino Chiesa)
• Being Agile Is Our Favorite Thing (Bil Simser)
• Build a Book on Facebook With Blurb (Mark Hendrickson)
• Average North American Game Developer Salary: $73,600 (Andy Robinson)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Running Inside of Emacs and IIS 7.0 PowerShell Support (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 14, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-14) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 14, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2008 #251 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Find #56 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #19 (Darren Stokes)
• Link Listing – April 14, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #73 (Chris Alcock)

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