Dew Drop – October 7, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ GroupBy Query with Projection (Josh Twist)
• Dynamic Data in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Wallace B. McClure)
• Save DataSet Contents to XML and Null Values (Derik Whittaker)
• The Compare Contract (Kim Hamilton)
• Visual Studio 2010 (Formerly Known as Rosario) Videos (Clemens Reijnen)
• Preventing Third-Party Derivation, Part Two (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Master Complex Builds with MSBuild (Tapas Pal)
• Did You Know… You Can Configure the MSBuild Verbosity in the Output Window? (Sara Ford)
• Adding Storage Management Abilities to Your Windows Application Using VDS (Virtual Disk Space) (Jose Barreto)

Web Development

• Writing Text on a Path in Silverlight and Silverlight 2 UI Templates (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #56 – Accessing the HTML DOM From Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• ASP.NET MVC with NHaml – F# Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Custom Field Templates in ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Rachel Appel)
• Using jQuery to Enhance ASP.NET AJAX Progress Indication (Dave Ward)
• Updates for AJAX in IE8 Beta 2 (Sunava Dutta)
• The ProgressBar Control in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)

Design / Methodology

• Refactoring Exercise: The Single Responsibility Principle vs Needless Complexity (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: September 2008 CTP (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Design Patterns – Part 5 (Granville Barnett)

SharePoint

• Developing a Custom Master Page (Master Pages and SharePoint Part 3 of 6) (Greg Galipeau)

Database

• Npgsql2 – The PostgreSQL .NET Data Provider Written 100% in C# Has Been Released and The Code Name for the Next Version of SQL Server is Kilimanjaro (Denis Gobo)
• Temporary Tables – SQL for Programmers (Dave M. Bush)

Events / Community

• Events This Week – October 6th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IASA Free Virtual Event – Global Certification Summit (Clemens Reijnen)
• PDC2008 Is in 3 Weeks. A Boy Band, A WomenBuild Event and Windows 7! (Dave Isbitski)
• Upcoming October Developer Events (Lindsay Rutter)

Miscellaneous

• HealthVault Connection Center Beta 2 for Vista (MS Downloads)
• Five Questions with Dave Liebreich (Michael Hunter)
• 30+ (More) Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks (Hongkiat)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• September 2008 Monthly Roundup and Blog Stats (Amit Raz)
• Daily Find #103 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for October 6, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.05~2008.10.07 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2008 — #389 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #195 (Chris Alcock)

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