Dew Drop – July 27, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Observations on Saving to a File and Testing Interleaved Async File Writing and Mocking the File System (Oren Eini)
• Using Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (LDS) in Windows Server 2008 (Bart de Smet)
• Default Files in Visual Studio Test Projects (David Starr)
• Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Two (Brian)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master (Series Part 3 – Blend) (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight Problems That Affect Me (Rob Eisenberg)
• In-State Animation in a Nutshell (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology

• The Difference Between Best Effort and Assurance (Oren Eini)
• The Request/Response Service Layer (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• The ASP.NET MVC Definition (Michael C. Neel)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #25 – Unit Test Your Views Without a Web Server (Stephen Walther)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 258 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2008 — #335 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – July 26, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Bookmarking the Web – w30/2008 (Erwin)

Book of the Day

Programming WPF: Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths: Books