Month: November 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional .NET 4.0 – Tuples and Zip (Matthew Podwysocki)
• MrEpl a Fun Way to Learn MSchema (Josh Williams)
• Controlling Authentication with the WF 3.5 SendActivity (Jon Flanders)
• Chain of Responsibility Using Castle Windsor and a First Experience with StructureMap – Part 1 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Compiler Enforced Disposal? (Davy Brion)
• What Does That .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.* (Brad Abrams)
• Single Letter Variable Names Still Considered Harmful (K. Scott Allen) – Link of the Day
• Dynamic Data: Come for the Scaffolding, Stay for Everything Else (Jonathan Carter)

 

Silverlight

• Update on Silverlight 2 – and a Glimpse of Silverlight 3 (Scott Guthrie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Common Interfaces for Tool Families (Colin Ramsay)
• The Fallacy of IRepository (Oren Eini)
• Agile Development Going Downhill? (Davy Brion)
• Thoughts on the Decline and Fall of Agile (Jeremy D. Miller)
• PTOM – The Decorator Pattern (Sean Chambers)

 

Web Development

• Rendering a Single View Using Multiple ViewEngines (Phil Haack)
• Embed Zoho DB & Report’s Interactive Charts in Your Blog/Website (Raju Vegesna)
• Tips and Tricks When Working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX (Muhammad Mosa)

 

Events / Community

• How We Use TFS at Microsoft – Additional Decks from PDC and from TechEd EMEA (Stephanie Saad)
• Internal DSL Workshop Videos Posted (Chad Myers)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 14 Hits the Web (Joris Poelmans)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2008 — #429 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #27 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for November 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (11/16/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 68 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #224 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 17, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Web Development

• How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Simone Chiaretta)
• Useful HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Don’t Be Sloppy in Your Scripts (Sergio Pereira)
• Hello from the Live Framework Team (Kevin Ledley)
• ASP.NET MVC in the Clouds (Phil Haack)
• Live Meeting Series: Azure Services Platform Overview (Steve Clayton)
• RESTful Live Search Service (Nikhil Kothari)
• php|architect’s Guide to Enterprise PHP Development (Grant Palin)
• Limiting the Page Payload with IIS HTTP Compression (Andrew Connell)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot (Shahar Yair)
• XNA & Extension Methods 2 (Pete)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #19: Surface and Looking into the C# Crystal Ball with Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner (Keith Elder)
• Update on the GDR That Is Coming for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express (MS Downloads)
• Subsonic 3.0 – Generate Data Access Layer and O/R Mapper Using T4 Templates (David Hayden)
• SpankyJ Is an Oslo Star! (Chris Sells)
• Is IronErlang (or Erlang.NET) a Good Idea? (Frank Thomsen)
• Pax-Reflector Plugin (Jason Haley)
• BitTalkCop – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Correct Event Handling (Oren Eini)
• Early Thoughts on MEntity (Alex Thissen)
• What’s the Score with LINQ to SQL? (Simon Sabin)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #70 – Data Collection Support in Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• IronPython and WPF Part 2: Loading XAML (Harry Pierson)
• Sobees – So WPFee! (Frank Arrigo)
• Vectorform Wins PhizzPop New York with Study Right (Adam Kinney)
• SurfaceDJ from Vectorform (Faisal Khan) – A couple of very cool apps from Vectorform… Good guys too.
• WPF and Silverlight BookControls – Release for SL2 RTW (CodePlex)
• Sending Email from Silverlight (Jeff Paries)
• Billy Hollis: A Walkthrough Basic WPF/Silverlight Layout + XAML Concepts (Rob Relyea)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windsor Components, the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and Bug Verification Tests (Tim Barcz)
• .NET Code Contracts and TDD Are Complementary (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Some Reading on Essence vs. Ceremony (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Manual v. Automated Testing Again and No More Testers? (James Whittaker)
• Service Custodian (Martin Fowler)
• You’re Not Going to Need It (Andrew Stopford) – YAGNI!!!
• Testing Is Hard but Debugging Just Sucks A$$ (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• Application Architecture Checklists Posted to CodePlex (J.D. Meier)
• TechEd 2008 Developers – How to Start Testing (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Database

• Troubleshooting Blocking 101 on SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• How We Did – Automating Service Requests Using InfoPath Forms Services (Pete Skelly & Eric Bowden & Danny Ryan)

 

Miscellaneous

• 16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers (Darren Rowse)
• PDC 2008 Viewer and Downloader – Release: v1.0.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Windows Live Announcements Recap: What a Week We’re Having! (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft to Launch Online SharePoint, Exchange on Monday (Elizabeth Montalbano)
• The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship (Michael Arrington)
• Your Favorite NP-Complete Cheat (Jeff Atwood)
• Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility – Release: v0.2 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Windows Live Toolbar – Upcoming New Features, Sync, SkyDrive and Favorites Integration (damaster)
• Teach Kids Programming with Small Basic from Microsoft (Imran Hussain)
• Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems (Ryan Sholin)
• The 10 Most Useful Google Reader Productivity Tips (Abhijeet Mukherjee)
• Man Writes Software, Blogs About It, Makes $100k in 5 Months (Marshall Kirkpatrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 14, 2008 — #428 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for November 14th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for November 14, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Flagged Links #5 (Jason Bock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Please Don’t Read This Blog Post (Jesse Liberty)
• Ayende on Advanced NHibernate (Dave Laribee) – Link of the Day
• Syntax Coloring for Your Custom Mg Language with Intellipad (Justin Bailey)
• Using Crowdsourcing for Expanding Localization of Products (Scott Hanselman)
• Mapping with Expressions (K. Scott Allen)
• How Can I Expand Items in a TreeView? – Part II (Beatriz Stollnitz)
• Windows Vista Bridge Sample Library = A Managed API for Windows (Yochay Kiriaty)
• WiimoteLib v1.6 Released and WiiEarthVR Article and Source Code Posted (Brian Peek)
• New XNA Game Studio 3.0 Samples! (XNA Team)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: v8.11.12.1 Alpha (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• TextBoxFor(u => u.Name) – Unleash the Power (Karl Seguin)
• The Future of WebForms and ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar (Ryan Lanciaux)
• SEO Starting Guide for ASP.NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• Professional ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB (Dave M. Bush)
• Virtual Earth Basics Part 1 – Loading the Map (John O’Brien)

 

Silverlight

• Tutorial #9: Embedding Fonts in Silverlight 2 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Expression Encoder 2 SDK Updated for Service Pack 1 (Dean Rowe)
• A Fun Little Silverlight Twitter Application (Mike Ormond)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Approach Development (Tim Barcz)
• Unit Testing Change Notification (Christopher Bennage)
• Video – The Langston’s Ant (Sergio Pereira)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Its Windows Live Services (Eran Kampf)
• Web-Based Office to Work on Macs, iPhone (Ina Fried)
• SketchPath XPath Editor (Alex Mueller)
• Some of the Pitfalls of Windows 7 M3 Build You Need to Be Aware Of (Kit Kai)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2008 and Innovation Notes: November 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 13th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• Checkout Tip#13 to Tip#23 on Our Tips and Tricks Blog (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2008 — #427 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.11.12~2008.11.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #223 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 14, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

Book of the Day