Daily Links – Page 1462 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Bits – March 4, 2008

Visual Studio

More “How Do I?” Videos for TFS 2008 (Angela Binkowski)
The ABCDEFGHI of Setting Up Visual Studio for Demos (Daniel Moth)

Events/Community

Big Things Happening This Week (Frank La Vigne)
MIX08 Schedule Picks (Brad Abrams)
MIX08 for Non-Attendees (Tim Sneath)
Heading to MIX08 and Tweeting Along the Way (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight/WPF

Slide.Show (G. Andrew Duthie)
New Devs4Devs Video Released! Silverlight – What, Where and How? (Dave)
Microsoft and Nokia Get Together on Silverlight (Robert Scoble)
Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition Joins 4 Others in the WPF Showcase (WindowsClient.net)

Web Development

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Why My ASP.NET AJAX Forms Are Never Submitted Twice (Dave Ward)
Now This Is Ridiculous (Generics in JavaScript) (Adrian Kosmaczewski)

.NET

Followup on .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool Bug (Michael C. Kennedy)
LazyParser.NET 0.9.1 Has Been Published on CodePlex (Philippe Leybaert)
.NET Reflector 5.1 Released (Lutz Roeder)
C# Code Samples for the Live Search API (MS Downloads)

Misc

Six Months in the Inside – Am I Evil Yet? and 2008 Windows Scription Games – Advanced PowerShell Event 7 (Scott Hanselman)
101 x 101 Articles on Becoming an Architect (Simon Guest)
45 Photoshop Tutorials for Better Navigation (Vandelay)
Three Cheers for Microsoft! The Web Is About to Improve Big-Time (speednet)
MSN Toolbar Beta Now Available for Download (Simon Kerbel)

SQL Server

A Simple Way to Defragment All Indexes in a Database That Is Fragmented Above a Declared Threshold (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Now Available: SharePoint End User Handbook (Andrew Connell)
What the 0x80072020? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for March 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #45 (Chris Alcock)
Bits for March 3, 2008 (Dave Burke)
Morning Coffee 152 (Harry Pierson)
2 Links Today (2008-03-03) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures: Microsoft Corporation: Books

Technorati: MIX08, daily links, microsoft, IE8, .net development, asp.net, sharepoint, sql server, silverlight, wpf, software architecture, web security books

Daily Bits – March 3, 2008

Web Development

Next Generation Web Applications (Dino Esposito)
The Offline Wars About to Heat Up? (Robert Scoble)
Microsoft About to Reveal Web Apps Strategy? (Steve Clayton)

.NET

Json.NET 2.0 Beta 2 (James Newton-King)
Interesting LINQ Bits (David Vidmar)
Layering MMC 3.0 Snap-Ins on Top of Windows PowerShell (Bart De Smet)
Reusable Generic Directory Poller Utility Class for .NET (Troy DeMonbreun)

Blogging

Keyvan and His Feed – Last Episode (Keyvan Nayyeri)
10 Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Blogs (QTO)

SQL Server

Great SQL Server Blogs (Rhonda Tipton)
Is It Important to Declare Your Columns as NOT NULL (Simon Sabin)
The Requirements Are Always Wrong, or, Iterative Database Development (Kenneth Downs)

Silverlight/WPF

How To: High Performance Graphics in WPF (Tamir Khason)
Silverlight in SharePoint (Sahil Malik)
Design Tip for Developers – Proper Color/Alpha Values in Gradients (Dax Pandhi)

Misc

8+ Ways to Train Yourself to Be Creative (Travis Wright)
Recommended Book: Advanced Windows Debugging (Jason Zander)
Google’s Engineering Philosophy (Alex Chitu)
No Surprise Here – Offshoring Losing Popularity (Frank Kelly)
Focusing on Design (James Avery)
Microsoft Preps StartKey: A “Windows Comanion” on a USB Stick (Mary Jo Foley)
FastCompany.TV Launches (Robert Scoble)
Unit Testing, Playing Tennis, and the Lack of Absolutes in TDD (Jeremy D. Miller)
What Does It Take to Become a Grandmaster Developer? (Jeff Moser)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for March 2, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Weekly Link Post 31 (Rhonda Tipton)
Weekly Crumbs #9 (Dilip Krishnan)
Link Listing – March 2, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #44 (Chris Alcock)
2 Links Today (2008-03-02) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Mario Hewardt,Daniel Pravat: Books

Technorati: daily links, windows debugging, microsoft, .net development, sharepoint, silverlight, wpf, sql server

Daily Bits – March 2, 2008

.NET

Book Review: LINQ in Action (Patrick Smacchia)
WCSF 2.0 Hidden Gem – Creating Interface Projects (Glenn Block)
Polymorphism and the Validation Application Block (Tom Hollander)
‘Move with Replace’ C# Method (TD)

Events/Community

Speaking on SOA: The Paradigm Shift and IO in Denver Tuesday (Sam Gentile)
What’s on the Cards For MIX08? (Chris)

Visual Studio

Visual C++ in Visual Studio 10 Will Use SQL Server Compact Instead of NCBs (Granville Barnett)
Problems That Are Fixed in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Database Pro Post SR1 Rollup Package 1 and How To: Output Trace String on a Machine Where Visual Studio Is Not Installed (Scott Cate)
Test Case Generator – Release v1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
The Future of IntelliSense (SteveX)
Setting the Default Browser Inside Visual Studio (Jimmy Bogard)

Misc

The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing (Sramana Mitra)
Obsolete Skills (Brad Kellett) – Great list of things no longer in demand.
Comic Reader – Alpha Release (CodePlex) – A .NET app that reads CBZ and CBR files.

SharePoint

10 Solutions Every SharePoint Developer Should Know How to Create and Hiding Individual Menu Items on SharePoint Toolbars (Scot Hillier)
MSDN Forums For SharePoint Developers (Ishai Sagi)

Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 1, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft)): Steve McConnell: Books

Technorati: daily links, visual studio, microsoft, .net development, sharepoint, books, developer community

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