Dew Drop – June 24, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallel Extensions for .NET (Mike Taulty)
• Crashing WCF 3.5 JSON Services with DateTime.MinValue (Rick Strahl)
• String Usage Guidelines (David Kean)
• LINQPad – Copy HTML to Clipboard (Chris Cavanagh)
• Entity Framework: Vote of No Confidence (Brian Ellis)
• EDM Tools | Options (Part 2 of 4) (Mike Kaufman)
• MOSS 2007 Testing with VS 2008 – Response to Comments (Liam Cleary)
• .NET WeakReference: GC Knows the Best (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Agile Tools Integration – Rally Announces Integration with TFS! (Stephanie Saad)
• Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip (Phil Haack)
• P/Invoke Interop Assistant (Justin Van Patten)
• Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Reading Feeds with XLINQ (Sacha Barber)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using ASP.NET Authentication in a Web Service with Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight Tattoo? (Frank La Vigne)
• Using the Shape Controls in Silverlight 2 Part 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight 2 Binding Modes Diagram (John Papa)
• Silverlight Desktop – Release v01.10.00 (CodePlex)
• WatermarkedTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Kathy Kam)

 

Web Development

• Announcing the Presdo API, and the Presdo iPhone 3G Contest (Presdo Blog)

 

Design / Methodology

• Automated Regression Testing: Why, What and How (Frank Kelly)
• Matrix Resource Management and Agile (Joe Ocampo)
• Revisiting the Ad-Hoc vs Stored Procedure Debate (Chris Love)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Ultimate Code Kata (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• Write For Us (James Avery)
• Inside the Applicant Tracking System (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• INETA Community Champions Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Bill Gates: Transitioning Into the Future (Charles Torre)
• What Makes Me NOT Want to Leave a Company/Client/Shop (Derik Whittaker)
• The Weekly Source Code 29 – Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus (Scott Hanselman)
• Capital Area .NET User’s Group June 24, 2008 (Sam Gentile)
• 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes (Deke McClelland)

 

SQL Server

• 10 Reasons Why SQL Server 2008 Is Going to Rock (Angry Hacker)
• SQL Server 2008 – Inline Variable Assignment (Pinal Dave)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 23, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the Week: June 23, 2008 (Chris Love)
• Daily Find #79 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for June 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2008 — #307 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #41 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #121 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #235 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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