Dew Drop – October 22, 2008

 

Huge list today.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some Common Operations Using LINQ to XML – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks That Every Developer Should Know (Stephen Walther)
• A Game Lobby System in C# (Bob Janova)
• Memoization for Dummies (Bart de Smet)
• Terrible Code Example – Methods From Hell (Amit Raz)
• Due Out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith (Chris Smith)
• Sybase’s SQL Anywhere ADO.NET Provider Supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework! (David Sceppa)
• Why Use Computation Workflows (aka Monads) in F#? (Chance Coble)
• CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and Silverlight Beta 2 Release! (Rockford Lhotka)
• Mass Transit – Part 2 of N (Tim Barcz)
• NHibernate Intro Screencast Source (Chad Myers)
• Visual Studio Plug In Idea (Tony Rasa)
• If You Ever Wanted to Play Fur Elise in the Console (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• The Fifth Assembly (Harry Pierson)

 

Web Development

• Rendering a Tree View Using the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)
• CarTrackr – Sample ASP.NET MVC Application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Tip #15: Did You Know… How to Use Tracing with ASP.NET Ajax? (Federico Silva Armas)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList and HTML Attributes (Rob Conery)
• Making Element Position Absolute with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 13 (Scott Mitchell)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Isolated Storage Settings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #64 – Deploying a Silverlight Application with a Web Service (Mike Snow)
• Sizing in Silverlight – Pixels and Stars (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF Sources for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Are Available! (Steven Wilson) – Link of the Day
• Designer – Developer Workflow (John Stockton)
• Silverlight 2 GUIMark – Big Performance Boost in Silverlight 2 RTW (Bart Czernicki)
• Principles, Patterns, and Prism Presentation (James Kovacs)
• Creating an Outlook Calendar Using WPF (Part 1) (Rudi Grobler)
• Rounded Windows and Blur Sample Code (Adam Kinney)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Encapsulation and Thinking Behaviorally and Where Are the DDD Sample Applications? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Pex It: The File System, Abstraction, Mocking, Modeling (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Cheat Sheet: patterns & practices Pattern Catalog Posted to CodePlex (J.D. Meier)
• Sneak Preview: Code Digger – The New Pex Experience (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Mocks vs. Stubs and My ‘Ah ha’ Moment (Derik Whittaker)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Presenting the KaizenConf Workshops (Dave Laribee)
• NINE Questions at PDC (Chris G. Williams)

 

Database

• SQL CURSOR Performance – SQL for Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• PowerShell: Deploying SSRS Reports in Integrated Mode (Reza Alirezaei)

 

Miscellaneous

• Connected Health Whitepaper (MS Downloads)
• Straighten Up! (Arwa Tyebkhan) – A Windows Live Photo Gallery tip.
• New in Labs: Canned Responses (Chad Parry)
• Shoutout to My Fellow Linkbloggers (October 22, 2008) (Arjan Zuidhof)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs and What I’m Hearing from Customers and Partners About Microsoft’s Virtualization Solutions (Zane Adam)
• Xbox Live Primetime Launch Pushed to Spring (Tim Conneally)
• Windows 7 Targets October 2009 RTM, Retail Soon After? (Long Zheng)
• Why New Developers Should Consider Contracting (Max Pool)

 

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #79 and Visual Studio Links #80 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• XNA Creators Club Communiqué 05 (Kathleen Sanders)
• LINKBLOG for October 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Triple Shot Links #7 (Russell Ball)
• WMOC#23 – ASP.NET MVC Beta and Silverlight 2 Released (Dilip Krishnan)
• Daily Find #106 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2008 — #403 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #206 (Chris Alcock)

 

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