Dew Drop – April 24, 2008

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Just Announced (Aaron Skonnard)
• Consolas Font: Old Age & Tired Eyes! (Jeff Lynch)
• A History of King’s Quest (Paul Thurrott)
• SharePoint Load Tests (Adam Gallant)
• The Technical Manager (Jacob Proffitt)
• Book Review: Brownfield Application Development – Upcoming Book from Manning Publications (Derik Whittaker)
• SvnBridge 2.0 Released! (Oren Eini)
• Windows XP SP3 Patch Now Available to MSDN Subscribers – Through Top Downloads List (msdn blog)
• Why I’m Not Using .NET (Steve Tibbett)

Silverlight

• Got Duplex? (Silverlight 2 and WCF Duplex Communications) (Pete Brown)
• Prototype Silverlight Data Portal (Rocky Lhotka)
• How Do You Know INotifyPropertyChanged Is Working (Jesse Liberty)
• Video: Write Your First Silverlight Game (J. Michael Palermo IV)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Calendar and DatePicker Starter Guide (Kathy Kam)

Web Development

• Use Fiddler to Test RESTful WCF Services (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Bits Posted (Brad Abrams)
• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 4 (Rob Conery)

.NET

• LINQ Extensions Release 2 Now on CodePlex (Omer van Kloeten)
• Increasing the Size of Your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3) (Rick Minerich)
• Random Exceptions (Sean)
• Performance Impact of the readonly Keyword (Julien)
• xUnit.net 1.0 Released Today (James Newkirk)
• Using NAnt with Visual Studio (Richard Brown)

Design/Methodology

• Solo A Pensoso (Mike Nichols)
• Source Control Practices to Be Abolished: The Large Checkin (Oren Eini)

SQL Server

• SQLExamples: A Great New SQL Server Resource (Joe Webb)
• Column Headings from SQL Results (Rhonda Tipton)

Blogging

• 13 of the Best WordPress Plugins (David Airey)
• WLW Code Formatting (Scott Watermasysk)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2008 – limited and Interesting Finds: April 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #21 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-04-23) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2008 – #257 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #59 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.24 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #80 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day