Day: May 9, 2008

 

.NET

• Enhancing Mappers with LINQ (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx – Part VII – Merge Modules/GAC (Dave Campbell) – CR was created for just that purpose… to kick our axxes…
• Brain Teaser #3 (Ben Martens)
• Mock Framework Benchmarks (Aaron Jensen)
• Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers (Charlie Calvert) – I believe I’ve posted this link before.
• The LINQ SelectMany Operator and IEnumerable ForEach Extension Method (Justin Etheredge)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 110 – Microsoft Research: Spec# (Scott Hanselman)
• Debugging IronPython Code in Visual Studio (Harry Pierson)
• .NET and Web 3.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Designing with Lambdas – Part IV (Sergio Pereira)
• How Do I Get a Hotfix for .NET or Visual Studio? (Tess Ferrandez)
• LINQ to SQL Instantiation (Brian Mains)
• VS2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Is Now Available (Lai Hoong Fai)

 

Web Development

• MVC Storefront, Part 9: The Shopping Cart (Rob Conery)
• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Providing Visual Feedback with the UpdateProgress Control (Scott Mitchell)
• The Revenge of Captain AJAX (Daniel Larson)
• ASP.NET MVC – Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern (Matt Hawley)

 

WPF

• Making Your WPF Applications Speak (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF, From This to That… Wow! (Glenn Block)
• Whitepaper: WPF Application Quality Guide (WPF Team)
• Video: How Do I: Create and Use a Converter to Change DataTypes (Todd Miranda)
• Standalone Validation Block (Marc)

 

Design / Methodology

• Your API Fails, Who Is at Fault? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Unreliable Software (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Project Failures – Blame the Process, or the People? (Casey Charlton)

 

Blogging / Community

• 12 Reasons to Start Twittering (Michael S. Hyatt)

 

SQL Server

• SQL Teaser: @@ROWCOUNT (Denis Gobo)
• How to Log When a Function Is Called? (Denis Gobo)
• SSMS Tools PACK 1.0 Is Now Available (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Announcing LINQ4SP (Agnes Molnar)
• SharePoint Extranet Topology (Joris Poelmans)
• Server Side Integration of SharePoint and Facebook (Brendon Schwartz)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Transactions QuickStart (Lee Holmes)
• Fun With Script cmdlets (James Brundage)
• WPF From PowerShell – Updating Windows (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Are Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman the Same Person? (Troy DeMonbreun)
• Microsoft Gears Up to Release Xbox 360 with New Chips (Paul Thurrott) – I’m really hoping for Salt & Vinegar.
• Book Review: C# in Depth (David Hayden) – Just got this book myself, and it is fantastic so far.
• Opera 9.5 Looking Good (Mike Gunderloy)
• Bookpool May Sale – 45% Off MS Press, Cisco Press, and New Releases (Angela Binkowski)
• Best Programming Jokes (Timm Webb)
• MSDN and TechNet Are Virtualized (Chad Brooks)
• Zoho Wiki : Improved Free Plan, Domain Level Permissions, etc. (Arvind)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – May 7, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: May 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-08) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #65 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2008 — #270 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Microsoft Oriented Crumbs #3 and Weekly SOA Crumbs #16 and Weekly Software Development and Architecture Crumbs #3 (Dilip Krishnan)
• Everyman Links for May 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #90 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day