.NET / Visual Studio
- ImmutableStack in F#, Part 2 (Jared Parsons)
- NAnt and Setup Projects (*.vdproj) (Kevin Hurwitz)
- Smarter Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
- Probably the Most Powerful LINQ Operator: SelectMany (Bart de Smet)
- Clone Detective for Visual Studio – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex) – Looks like this could be useful for refactoring when doing Brownfield development.
- Pluralsight’s WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series (Aaron Skonnard)
- C# Inline Methods and Optimization (Ade Miller)
- What’s in NetFX 3.5 SP1? (Kevin Frie)
- Microsoft StyleCop – Release v4.3 (MSDN Code Gallery)
- Thank You, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Davy Brion) – Awesome!
Design / Methodology
- Design Patterns – Part 1 (Granville Barnett)
- What First – CI or Unit Testing? (Tim Barcz) – Davy Brion responds.
- Priority Filter (Corey Ladas)
- Pretty Simple Software (Tobin Harris)
- Tasty Beverages (Eric Lippert)
- On Good Design and Defining Success and DDD, Repositories and ORMs (Jimmy Bogard)
- Two-Phase Initialization (Sasha Goldshtein)
- I’m Thinking of Using Agile Software Development – But Should I Use Lean Software Development Instead? (Martin Fowler)
Silverlight / WPF
- Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners (Mike Snow)
- Building a WPF Application: Part 3 (Christopher Bennage)
- Teitlebaum’s WPF Graphic Demos, Part 1 (Adam Kinney)
- Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex! (William Cornwill)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC Tip #34 – Dispose of Your DataContext (or Don’t) (Stephen Walther)
- Logging with ASP.NET MVC Action Filters (Timothy Khouri)
- Quick Tip: Dynamically Add an Icon for External Links (Karl Swedberg)
- Creating a Dynamic, Data-Driven User Interface (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
Database
- SSIS: Validating Your Package to See If It Will Execute (Jamie Thomson)
- Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
Events / Community
- Kaizenconf – Calm Down People (Scott C. Reynolds)
Self-Help for Developers
- Rainy Day Coding (Jeremy Jarrell)
- Importance of a Personal Development Plan (Scott Nichols) – Link of the Day
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft to Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month and Office 14: Alpha Testing to Begin Before Year-End (Sumeeth Evans)
- The Blue Monster Book Club Continues (Steve Clayton)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 19, 2008 – [Final Cut] and Innovation Notes: August 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Daily Find #94 (Tim Boland)
- Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 — #351 (Dave Campbell)
- LINKBLOG for August 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Silverlight News for August 20, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
- The Morning Brew #162 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Enterprise 2.0: How Social Software Will Change the Future of Work: Niall Cook, Don Tapscott: Books
Technorati: .net 3.5 sp1, visual studio 2008 sp1, wpf, wcf, silverlight, linq, asp.net mvc, jquery, agile development, ddd
