Month: October 2008

 

Web Development

• Want to Do Cool Things with ASP.NET MVC? (Aaron Jensen)
• Silverlight and Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight and the Enterprise (Bart Czernicki)
• 7 of My Favorite jQuery Plugins for Use with ASP.NET (Dave Ward)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting ReSharper and VS to Play Nice with MSpec (Aaron Jensen)
• "The C# Programming Language Third Edition" and Thoughts on Language Evolution (Bart de Smet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BDD – Consider Your Audience (Aaron Jensen)
• Bringing Prism to WinForms and Finding the Right Level of Coupling (Glenn Block)
• Bugs vs. Flaws (John McDonald)
• Is Code Coverage Important? (Meera Subbarao)

 

Database

• The Argument for Denormalization (Ken Downs)
• SQL Server – Transaction and Local Variables – Swap Variables – Update All at Once Concept (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is Product Splintering the Future of Software (Max Pool)
• The PDC Prep Death March – It’s Almost Over (Harry Pierson)
• Podcast Roundup (Russell Ball)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the Week #57 (week 42/2008) (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 64 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #23 (Grant Palin)
• LINKBLOG for October 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (10/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2008 — #400 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #204 (Chris Alcock)

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Developing with Source Control Best Practices Part 1 (Peter Ritchie) – Link of the Day
• Protectionism via Self-Improvement (Kyle Baley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Check If an Enumeration Value Is Defined (Richard Carr)
• Using StructureMap 2.5 to Scan All Assemblies in a Folder (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Immutable and Mutable Objects in C# (Buddy Lindsay)
• Eventing in WCF (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Power Toys 3.4 Released (Karl Shifflett)
• Load and Play Media Files at Runtime Using Silverlight 2 (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

SharePoint

• MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Michael Cummings)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Introduction to CLR – Simple Example of CLR Stored Procedure (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Group Options in Messenger Wave 3 Activated – Featuring Groups Calendar (damaster)
• The Beginning of BeginnerIntermediate (Buddy Lindsay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.16~2008.10.18 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2008 — #399 (Dave Campbell)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Charcoal Visual Studio Settings (Dave Donaldson)
• SSDS: Getting a List of Authorities in C# (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft Posts Touchless SDK on CodePlex (Jeffrey Schwartz)
• Frustration Friday – How NHibernate Can Waste Your Day (Casey Charlton)

 

Web Development

• A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast (Brad Abrams)
• Why the Web Application Installer Rocks (Rob Conery)
• WCF vs ASMX Web Services (Keith Elder)
• MVC Contrib – MvcContrib.org – Release: v0.0.1.168 for MVC Beta 1 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Automation Brain Dump (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Transitioning from NAnt to Rake (Dave Laribee)
• MSTest 2008 Reports for CruiseControl.NET (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Architecture By Baseball: The General Manager (Larry Clarkin)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008 (MS Downloads)
• Scaling Out SQL Server Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
• Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 (Joel Reyes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome to Add Greasemonkey Support (Alex Chitu)
• PowerShell: Emit-XML (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Events / Community

• Re-cap of the Philly Code Camp (and My Code Sample) (Erik Peterson)
• Stack Overflow Search – Now 51% Less Crappy (Jeff Atwood)
• .NET Rocks! – Catching Up with Charles Petzold (Carl Franklin)
• Microsoft PDC to Feature Various Technologies (Paul Krill) – Most generic headline ever. I think you could reuse this for every tech conference.
• Not Going to PDC? You Won’t Miss Much! (Stephen Chapman)
• Omar Shahine on Growing Up with Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Add "Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0" to Your PDC Schedule (Daniel Moth)
• The Next SharePoint Best Practices Conference Announced (Bill English)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for October 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2008 — #398 (Dave Campbell)

 

Book of the Day