Category: Patterns

.NET

• Brownfield Application Development in .NET (Kyle Baley)
• Comparing RegEx.Replace, String.Replace, and StringBuilder.Replace – Which Has Better Performance? (Roberto Farah)
• LinqToCodeModel Sample Class Library on Code Gallery (vsxteam)
• Things I Hate About .NET and I Still Say Use Stored Procedures! (Chris Love)
• Compiled Queries in Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• LINQ to SQL: Returning Complex Objects (Guy Barrette)
• Visual LINQ Query Builder (VLinq) – A Visual Studio Add-In to Help Build LINQ to SQL Queries (Greg Duncan)
• CSLA .NET v3.5 Is Now Available (Rocky Lhotka)

Silverlight/WPF

• LightReader – My Foray into the World of Open Source Software Development (Michael Eaton)
• Exploring Silverlight with Dynamic Languages (Jimmy Schementi)
• Xbox Friends Watch – Releasing v1 of the New Gamercard (Adam Kinney)
• Handling and Reporting WPF Data Binding Validation Errors and Exceptions (Karl Shifflett)
• String Format – Made Simple (Toolico) – A handy tool written in Silverlight.
• Is WPF Data Binding Thread Safe? (Shahar Abramovich)

Web Development

• Creating an Online Boggle Solver – Building the User Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the ListView and DataPager Controls (Matt Berseth)
• IE8 Beta with VS2008 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Client-Side Templating with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Scrolling Data Pagination Using Ajax(extjs), Json(jayrock) and LINQ (Jason Witty)

Design/Methodology

• Heavyweight Tests == Lots of Future Pain (Derik Whittaker)
• Using the Observer Pattern (Jack Altiere)
• Internals Are Evil (Oren Eini)
• The Past, Present and Future (?) of Mocking (Aaron Jensen)
• Reactive Programming (Paul Stovell)
• Database Refactoring Interview with Scott W. Ambler (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Some Thoughts About Random Generation (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Wireshark 1.0 Released (via DotNetKicks)
• Building a MOSS Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and InfoPath (Scot Hillier)
• What Does S+S Mean For a Developer (David)
• SlickEdit Editing Toolbox (James Avery)
• How to Branch Properly (Dan)
• Book Review: jQuery in Action (Brian Reindel)

Events/Community

• HLS DevCon (Pete Brown)
• Agile Boot Camp for .NET Developers: April 30-May 2 (Spots Available) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Career

• The Most Important Quality of a Developer: Self-Criticism (Simone Chiaretta)
• Job Search Tip #1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development (Ben Watson)

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 2, 2008 and Interesting Finds: April 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-02) (Matt Hinze)
• Morning Coffee 160 (Harry Pierson)
• Silverlight Cream for April 2, 2008 – #242 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 2, 2008 and LINKBLOG for April 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #16 (Darren Stokes)
• The Morning Brew #65 (Chris Alcock)
• Bits for April 2, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Silverlight

• Silverlight Charts and Graphs – with Source Code (Pete Brown)

Events/Community

• Spontaneous New York Ethiopian Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

• A Web Server in 30 Lines of Code and NHibernate 2.0 Alpha Is Out (Oren Eini)
• Using LINQ to Access the File System (Derik Whittaker)
• Extension Methods Under .NET Framework v2 and v3 (Phil Curnow)
• C# DateTime.MinValue Is Not the Same As SqlDateTime.MinValue (Justin Bezanson)
• If You Are Using a Loop, You Are Doing It Wrong (Chuck Jazdzewski)
• How To: Optimize the Memory Usage with Strings (Eugen Ciuta)

Design/Methodology

• Developers’ Three Favorite Abstractions/Patterns (Evan Hoff)
• We Need ALT.NET to Supplement the Traditional .NET Leadership (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Best Coding Design Guidelines Ever (Milan Negovan)
• CHAPTER 1: Problems and Causes with the Way We Develop Software (Dan Bunea)

SQL Server

• How the SQL UNION Affects Table Design (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

• -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue => -EA 0 (Jeffrey Snover)

Link Collections

• Links (3/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 35 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #62 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day