Month: August 2008

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Datagrid & the WPF Toolkit (Marc)
• Prism, MEF and DI oh my (Glenn Block)
• The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App (Mike Taulty)
• Terrain Tutorial Part 2 – Using Transform Matrices to Create 3D Looking Terrain and Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 2) (Martin Grayson)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 10: A Practical Look at Silverlight Part 2 (Keith Elder)
• Incorporating Crystal Reports in a C# WPF Application (Sumair Shaikh)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO .NET Data Services: Data in the Cloud (Stephen Forte)
• ForEach, A Simple but Very Useful Extension Method (Glenn Block)
• The Tarantino Project – Automated Database Migrations and More (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Add Configuration Files to Your Visual Studio Project (Shahar Yair)
• Why Learning F# Is So Difficult (Kevin Hazzard)
• So What Happened to the WCF Extensions for Visual studio 2005 (Dan Rigsby)
• Curry for Dummies Cont’d – A Note on Purity (Bart de Smet)
• Fluent NHibernate – Configuration (Chad Myers)
• Poor Man’s Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
• SubSonic Scaling (Rob Conery)

 

Web Development

• Free Training on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and ASP.NET MVC (Marc)
• NPR Wants Suggestions for Their Next API Version (Andres Ferrate)
• IronNails: Some Progress (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6 (Ryan Farley)
• Integrating Google Maps Into an ASP.NET Page (Bartek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does Testing Lessen Quality? (Scott Schimanski)
• Scrum – A Not-So-Bad Development Methodology (Tim Barcz)
• Prevention v. Cure (Part 5) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• Good Design Is Not Subjective (Chad Myers)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – August 18, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• August Developer Events in PA (Rachel Appel)
• Continuous Improvement in .NET Software Development (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• Add Office 97/2003 Links to Windows’ "New" Menu (Kevin Purdy)
• 5 Tips for Hiring a Star Team (Steve Clayton)
• The Windows 7 Team (Steven Sinofsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for August 18, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2008 — #350 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 18, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #161 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 19, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Silverlight

• Silverlight/.NET vs Flash/Flex (or Not) and My Silverlight Wishlist (Pete Brown)
• From-To Animation vs. Linear Keyframe (Jesse Liberty)
• Passing Entities Between WCF and Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight 2 + WCF Service Deployment Issue (Rudi Grobler)

 

Design / Methodology

• Entities, How Many Ways Do I Count Thee? (Phani Raj)
• Why the Database as a Service Is a Bad Idea (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• The Perils of a FUI: Fake User Interface (Jeff Atwood)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables) (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

.NET /  Visual Studio

• Why You Should Always Unsubscribe Event Handlers (Davy Brion)
• Using LINQ to SQL XML Mapping Files – Step by Step (Dan Wahlin) – Link of the Day
• Rulesets on Operations in WCF with Validation Application Block (Thomas Bruusgaard)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Three-Tiered w/ Client-Side Data (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Invaluable CSS Resources (Dana Coffey)
• Will You Need a Javascript Framework on Your Next Project? (Brian Reindel)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Detailed Explanation of Transaction Lock, Lock Type, Avoid Locks (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lessons on Blogging From Jon Stewart (Tim O’Reilly)
• Twitters Adds Threaded Replies; Complicates Developers’ Lives (Mark Hopkins)
• PowerShell and SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Links #14 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #160 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #271 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Visual Studio Links #66 (Darren Stokes)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Frame Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available Today on Rough Cuts (Brad Abrams)
• It’s Time for IoC Container Detente (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Design and Testability (Chad Myers)

 

Web Development

• Search Engine Optimization for ASP.NET Web Sites (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #33 – Unit Test LINQ to SQL (Stephen Walther)

 

WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 2 (Christopher Bennage)

 

Database

• SQL Server XML – Split a Delimited String – Generate a Delimited String and SQL Server 2005 – Best Practices Analyzer (August 2008) (Pinal Dave)
• Only in a Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement by Changing a Few Lines of Code (Denis Gobo)

 

More Link Collections

• Link Listing – August 15, 2008 and Link Listing – August 16, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2008 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2008 – [Rough Cut] (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 266 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for August 17, 2008 — #349 (Dave Campbell)

 

Book of the Day