Category: Daily Links

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to SQL, EF, and the Thunderdome Solution (Ian Cooper)
• C# 4.0, Dynamic Programming and JSON (Nikhil Kothari)
• Microsoft "Oslo": What’s in a Name? (Brian Loesgen)
• Introducing "Oslo" (Aaron Skonnard) – Link of the Day
• More PDC 2008 Bits Exploration: Visual Studio 2010 (Ted Neward)
• WPF and Silverlight Toolkit (Faisal Khan)
• WPF Developers: PDC Wrap-Up and Visual Studio Tooling Update (Tim Sneath)
• Tiny Victories Inside Microsoft – SmallestDotNet Makes Headway (Scott Hanselman)
• NH Prof: A Guided Tour (Oren Eini)
• C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 3 – Intermezzo: LINQ’s New Zip Operator (Bart de Smet)
• LINQ to SQL – Goneburger (John-Daniel Trask)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and Rhino Tools Sample (Davy Brion)
• LiveFX: Windows Live Services and Live Mesh Converge and LiveFX: Recursing Hierarchical DataEntries and LiveFX: Comparing Performance of Local Versus Cloud LOE (Jamie Thomson)
• Chad & I Get Opinionated About the ASP.NET MVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Unobtrusive JavaScript Part 2 — Separating Content, Style and Behavior (John Teague)
• Windows Azure from a Developer’s Perspective (Dare Obasanjo)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Using Encoder Templates in Your Silverlight Application (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #67 – Silverlight Performance Tips and #68 – Great Silverlight Sessions to Watch from PDC 2008 and #69 – Silverlight 2 Developer Reference (Mike Snow)
• Debugging a WCF REST/AJAX Serialization Problem (Rick Strahl)
• Reading RSS Powered by FeedFlare Using ASP.NET and LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology

• Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction (Rob Conery)
• Test First or Test Driven, Who Cares? (Tim Barcz)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – November 3rd, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Rare, Exclusive Interview with the Channel 9 Guy About the MDC @ the PDC (J. Barnes)
• PDC2008 Keynote and Session Video Links (Mike Swanson)
• Where to Download "The Goods" for PDC 2008 (Habib Heydarian)

 

Database

• Random in SQL – SQL For Programmers (Dave M. Bush)
• Gotchas in Management Studio 2008 (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• How We Did It – Allowing Connecitons to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Parts (Pej Javaheri)
• Recommended Books (Paul Galvin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Will Windows Azure Succeed? (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Azure vs Google App Engine (Jon Paul Davies)
• Tips for Preparing for a Technical Presentation (Scott Hanselman)
• The "Unlocked" Windows 7 Taskbar Is Also Unfinished (Ed Bott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2008 — #418 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for November 3rd, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 9 (Mike Snow)
• LINKBLOG for November 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #108 (Tim Boland)
• Everyman Links for November 3, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #215 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 04, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

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I have decided to ignore all posts in Google Reader from 10/26 thru 10/31 for the time being. If I have time at some point this week, I will go back and wrap up the links from that period.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Three Model Archetypes for Oslo… (Clemens Reijnen)
• A Journey Into Expressions (Sacha Barber)
• C# 4.0 New Features Part 3 – Generic Covariance (Justin Etheredge)
• F# Elevator Pitch (Chris Smith)
• Fun with Live Mesh, Live Tools, Windows Mobile and Home Server (Keith Elder)
• C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 2 – Named Parameters (Bart de Smet)
• Oslo : First Impressions (Michael Cummings)
• TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Threading/Concurrency vs Parallelism (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• Silverlight + IIS Smooth Streaming Is WOW (Brian Goldfarb)

 

Database

• SQL 2008 Full-Text Search Problems (Jeff Atwood)
• Keeping Denormalized Values Correct (Ken Downs)

 

Events / Community

• Kaizencomf Day 1 Wrap-Up (Derik Whittaker)
• Hazy Recollections of PDC 2008 (Phil Haack)
• PDC 2008 – Silverlight 2 Wrap-Up (Bart Czernicki)
• My PDC 2008 Wrap Up (Rick Strahl)
• Thoughts of a PDC Gone By (Ted Neward)

 

Miscellaneous

• My Favorite Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Ensure Your Resume Doesn’t Get Thrown in the Trash (Max Pool)
• Enable the Awesome Bar in Windows 7 M3 (Paul Thurrott) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft 3.0 (Steve Clayton)
• An Early Look at Live Mesh for Mobile (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Oslo Week One Wrap-Up (Chris Sells)
• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #84 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2008 — #417 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #25 (Grant Palin)
• LINKBLOG for November 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (11/2/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 66 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #214 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the Week #58 (Week 44/2008) (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight News for 3 November, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Link blog posts could be limited during PDC, but be sure to check out my daily posts on DZone’s .NET Zone next week. Also check out some of the other fine link blogs linked to below.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• PDF/A – 1b Is Now Supported by Aspose.Pdf for .NET (Usman Sarfraz)
• IronPython 2.0 Release Candidate (Harry Pierson)
• IntelliSense Luv for a Friday (Dave Burke)
• HOL: MSDN Virtual Labs (Joel)
• ReSharper Jedi – FizzBuzz in Under 4 Minutes (Chad Myers)
• PDC 2008: New .NET Logo (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• "The C# Programming Language Third Edition" and Thoughts on Language Evolution (Bart de Smet)
• .NET Rocks! – Frans Bouma on ORM! (MS Downloads)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Immersivity: DataGrid to ComboBox Data Binding (Dave Burke)
• Building an Error Icon in WPF (Bil Simser)
• Prism v2 – Drop 4 (Erwin van der Valk)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash: Redux (Kirstin Juhl)
• Display Images from Database in Silverlight 2 (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Storefront Part 23: WebForms and Dynamic Data (Rob Conery)
• Escaping ASP.NET Tags in Code Smith Templates (Chris Love)
• Windows PowerShell Snap-In for EC2 – Release: 1.0 (Preview 1) (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology

• SCRUM Development Process — by Ken Schwaber (Manish Agrawal)
• A Spoonful of Governance for SOA (Steve Stefanovich)

 

Events / Community

• Getting Sorted for PDC2008 (Frank Arrigo)
• LiveSide Live from PDC! (We Hope) (Kip Kniskern)
• KaizenConf – Functional Programming – Is It a Game Changer? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Taking Off for the PDC and an Eleven Hour Flight (Clemens Reijnen)
• Keep Your Laptop Safe When Travelling (Adam Pash)
• Sara Ford Visual Studio Book Signing at PDC 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• If There’s One Thing You See at PDC… (Mark Miller)
• Where I Will Be During Microsoft PDC 2008 (Dan Rigsby)
• BCL Team at PDC 2008 (Justin Van Patten)
• Where You Can Find Me at PDC 2008 (Me)
• PDC 2008 – Here We Go! (Andrew Connell)
• PDC 2008 – The Main Event (Andrew Woodward)
• Introducing the Release Development Status Field, and Other New Features (Sara Ford)
• PDC Sessions Master List… and More and Watch Out for Hoobert at PDC (Steve Clayton)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Simulate INNER JOIN Using LEFT JOIN Statement – Performance Analysis (Pinal Dave)
• Did You Know? You Can Win a Copy of My Next Book (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• NXE – What You Want to Know: Netflix and Video Store (Sara N.)
• Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta and Download Microsoft PC Advisor and Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery (Paul Thurrott)
• Learn to Develop iPhone Applications Screencast Series from Pragmatic Programmers (David Hayden)
• Best MSFT Benefit: "Getting to Be Who I Am" (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• JetBrains Seeder Program (Mo Khan)
• Further Examination of .NET Framework Features Survey (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Aaron and Mike Show (Aaron Lerch)
• The New Xbox Experience Preview Program (Larry Hryb)
• Heads Up: Required Update to Live Mesh Coming Next Week (Live Mesh Team)
• Manage WordPress Blog Comments in AIR (Josh Lowensohn)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 — $405 and Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2008 – 2 — #406 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #81 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for October 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.24~2008.10.25 (yuanjian)

 

Book of the Day