Month: October 2008

 

Web Development

• Troubleshooting ASP.NET Issues with HTTPERR Logs (Tess Ferrandez)
• The Weekly Source Code 35 – Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State (Scott Hanselman)
• GridView Paging Using ASP.NET AJAX Slider Extender (Suprotim Agarwal)
• New Book – "Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong" (Rachel Andrew)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• New MassTransit Screencast and Sample (Chris Patterson)
• The Windows 7 Blog for Developers (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Watermarked TextBox Control (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #65 – Adding a Mouse Wheel Event Listener to Your Controls (Mike Snow)
• Converting Text to Speech in a C# WPF Application (Arafat Tehsin)
• QuakeLight, the Silverlight Port of Quake, Is Coming (Adam Kinney)
• WPF & Silverlight LOB Form Layout – Searching for a Better Solution (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight 2 Immersion Begins and Silverlight 2 Immersivity: DataGrid Two-Way Data Binding (Dave Burke)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD and Complexity (Colin Jack)
• Pex 0.8 Released, Featuring Code Digger and Stubs (Nikolai Tillmann) – Link of the Day
• TODO.txt 2008 Ultimate Team Edition (Tobin Harris)
• Announcing the NCover 3 Beta Program (Joseph Feser)
• Product Parenting (Eric Sink)

 

Events / Community

• This Week on C9: Windows 7, Silverlight 2 Ships, and PDC Attendee Fun (Dan Fernandez)
• Survey Results: What .NET Framework Features Do You Use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Where to Find Me at PDC2008 (Paul Vick)
• NINE Questions with Kirstin Juhl (Chris G. Williams)
• MIX09 Registration Opens (Steve Clayton)
• Stack Overflow Notifier (Roy Osherove)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint and Its Partner Ecosystem – Addons to Extend the Platform (Joris Poelmans)
• Streamline Your SharePoint Code Using Extension Methods (John Holliday)
• Offline Content Database (Marwan Tarek)

 

Database

• Filestream Access Has Just Got Simpler (Simon Sabin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Cloud Computing Price War to Come? (Robert Scoble)
• Announcing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Office SP Team)
• More on Internet Explorer 8 and IP Licensing (Tom Rubin)
• Follow-Up: Windows Desktop Search (Chris McConnell)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight News for October 22, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• WSOAC#36 – SOA and the Economy (Dilip Krishnan)
• Links for 2008-10-21 (HushChamber)
• The Morning Brew #207 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News: Compatibility Updates, New Hard Rock Memorabilia, and More (Sarah Perez)

 

Book of the Day

 

Non-Techie Book of the Day

 

 

 

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)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Beta Source Code Release (CodePlex)
• HTML Mangling with Literal Controls in the <head> Tag (Rick Strahl)
• Creating Drop Shadows in Silverlight Using Nested Borders (Jamie Rance)
• Display AJAX Progress in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Silverlight.net Updated Code Samples and SilverlightContrib Releases Silverlight 2 Controls (Tim Heuer)
• Visual Studio Templates for MVC Views Without CodeBehind Files (Javier G. Lozano)
• SilverlightContrib Is Taking Off (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #63 – How to Monitor HTTP Traffic for Errors (Mike Snow)
• Leveraging Existing ASP.NET Features in ASP.NET MVC (Ben Scheirman)
• jQuery – Explaining Last Week’s Code (Dave M. Bush)
• State Machine Compiler and ASP.NET (Santosh Poojari)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mapping Entities to Multiple Databases with NHibernate (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: C# in Depth (Jan Van Ryswyck) – Another good review for this great book.
• Best Approach for Teaching First Exposure to Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Extend Unity and UnityContainer with Extension Methods in C# 3.0 (David Hayden)
• How to Localize Your Application Using String Tables (Shahar Yair)
• Back to Basics – The Default Keyword in Generic Code (Gil Fink)
• Crack .NET (Sacha Barber)
• P/Invoke Cheat Sheet (Tamir Khason)
• WPF, Experiments with the CodePlex Shader Library (Mike Taulty)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Controlling the Usage of Libraries (Patrick Smacchia)
• Dependency Inversion: ‘Abstraction’ Does Not Mean ‘Interface’ (Derick Bailey)
• The Code Review Potluck (Ben Northrop) – Link of the Day

 

Events / Community

• Deep Fried Bytes 15: Visual Studio Tips and Running an Agile Team with Sara Ford (Keith Elder)
• My PDC 2008 Session Agenda (Stephen Chapman)
• Elegant Code Cast on ALT.NET and Microsoft (Glenn Block)
• Next Microsoft Office to Make PDC Cameo (Ina Fried)
• MSDN Developer Conference (Dan Rigsby)
• Expressing Your Tag Preferences (Jeff Atwood)
• NINE Questions with Rob Windsor (Chris G. Williams)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Applied: 10 Things You Wish They Told You – Part 2 (Sahil Malik)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Quest for a Personal Information Manager: MyInfo vs Evernote (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Microsoft Releases Pro Photo Tools 2 (Jason Dunn)
• More DreamScenes for Vista Users (Sarah Perez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for October 20, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2008 — #401 and Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2008 – 2 — #402 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for October 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #205 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for October 21, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)

 

Book of the Day