Dew Drop – May 20, 2008

 

SharePoint

• When to Dispose of Objects in SharePoint API (Greg Galipeau)
• Number 41… yeehaa! (Cornelius van Dyk) – I somehow managed to make #35 on Joel Oleson’s Top 100 SP list. Good SEO, I guess.
• SQL Monitoring and I/O (Dan Blood)
• Developers, Developers, Developers! SharePoint Wants You! (Lawrence)

 

Entity Framework

• Reviewing the Entity Framework Source Control Support (Oren Eini)
• Entity Framework: Our Albatross (Dave Laribee)
• What Dan Simmons Forgot to Tell You About the Entity Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
• More Entity Framework Thoughts (Jimmy Bogard)
• EF Long Term Plans (Greg Young)
• On Comparing Current Tools to Futureware (Evan Hoff)
• Why Use the Entity Framework? Yeah, Why Exactly? (Frans Bouma)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unit Tests for WCF (and Moq) (Pablo M. Cibraro)
• 101 LINQ Samples (Frank La Vigne)
• A Generic Constraint Question (Eric Lippert)
• Enum Description Values (Mike Oggoly)
• Use the Right Tool For the Job (Oren Eini)
• What Is the Story with These Files Ending with ni? (Tom)
• Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta Has Shipped (Quan To)
• ReSharper 4 Approaching Beta Status (Simone Chiaretta) – It’s installing on my machine at the moment. I hope it is actually stable.

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Binding.StringFormat (Rudi Grobler)
• WPF 3.5 SP1 Feature: StringFormat (Lester
• WPF – Point an Image to an Embedded Resource (Chad Campbell)
• Trying Code For My Book in VB and C# (John Papa)
• In Silverlight, Tags Are Just Strings… (Jesse Liberty)
• XAML: Level 100 (Daniel Moth)
• 50 New Silverlight Screencasts – Short and Snappy (Tim Sneath)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 5 – OutOfMemoryException (Tom)
• MVC Storefront: Brainbender Intermission and Intermission’s Over, Made Some Changes (Rob Conery)
• Google Health API Released (John Musser)

 

Design / Methodology

• The Little Things Do Matter (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Visual Designers Don’t Scale (K. Scott Allen)
• Why Do Some SOA Projects Succeed? Why Do Some Fail? (Brian Loesgen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Neuron 2.0 General Release Distribution, Case Study, and SOA Software (Sam Gentile)
• Bill Gates Demos TouchWall – Like Surface For the Office (Sarah Perez)
• Google Health Beta Test Begins (Stephen Shankland)
• Google Health: Some Observations (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Nice MSDN URLs (Mike Stall) – This is fantastic (and long overdue). Link of the Day.
• Hanseminutes Podcast Catchup (Scott Hanselman)
• Twitter: How Not to Crash Responsibly (Jeff Atwood)
• What’s New in MSDN Downloads? (Tamir Khason)
• I Now Present You With Bitter (Mike Hall) – Mike’s new Twitter client. I was one of Mike’s usability testers, and I’ve been very happy with the app.
• Generating Code Coverage From PowerShell Scripts (Lee Holmes)
• Atari 7800 Lounge at Milwaukee Grocery Store: The Horror, The Horror… (John Brownlee)

 

Events / Community

• Webcast: Software + Services for Developers (Joel)
• PDC2008: A Day in the Life #1 (Mike Swanson)
• Central Penn .NET User’s Group Tomorrow Night (Sam Gentile) – Tonight, May 20th.

 

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 243 (Sam Gentile)
• Link Listing – May 18, 2008 and Link Listing – May 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Visual Studio Links #29 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for May 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2008 — #277 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.20 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #97 (Chris Alcock)

 

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