February 2008 – Page 10 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Daily Bits – February 8, 2008

Misc

How to Build Cool Games by Using XNA Framework (Tamir Khason)
Windows Vista SP1 Final Scorecard (Paul Thurrott)
10 Cool Things You Can Do with PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

.NET

How Do You Pronounce => ? (Jesse Liberty)
Transparent Labels in WinForms (Rick Strahl)

WPF

Using the Source Code Editor for XAML in Visual Studio (Josh Twist)
Visual Studio
VSX Community Letter for February 2008 (Ken Levy)
Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery (Scott Hanselman)
Visual Studio Gallery (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Other Link Blogs

Wednesday (02-06-08) Edition of the d’bug Link Farm (Brian Reindel)
9 Links Today (2008-02-06) and 9 Links Today (2008-02-07) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: February 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 6, 2008 and LINKBLOG for February 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-02-07 and links for 2008-02-08 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #27 and The Morning Brew #28 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – February 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Links (2/7/2008) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0 : Patterns & Practices: Books: Microsoft Corporation

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, wpf, .net, books

Daily Bits – February 6, 2008

SharePoint

SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool v1.0 (Mark Harrison)

Web Development

Boost ASP.NET Performance with Deferred Content Loading (Dave Ward)
Silverlight Tip of the Day Gadget Version 2 (Jesse Liberty)
ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed – Book Review (Chris Love)
Do Not Name a Web Form “Login.aspx” on VS2008 with ASP.NET 2.0 (Al Pascual)

WCF

Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks (Rick Garibay)

WPF

Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications (Josh Smith)
The Rise of WPF vs. WinForms (John-Daniel Trask)
How Do I Wrap Text in the ComboBox? (Matthias Shapiro)

.NET

Irony: A .NET Compiler Construction Kit (David Brabant)
Welcome, Wayne Kelly! (John Lam)
Update to LINQ to SQL Business Object Wrapper Sample (Rick Strahl)
C# 4, Part 1: Looking Back at the Past (Jon Skeet)
For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerations, or None of the Above? (Jeff Moser)
A “Transactional” Generic DbHelper for LINQ to SQL (Tanzim Saqib)
LINQ to Objects – Measuring Performance Implications of the WHERE Clause (Steve Hebert)
Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader (John Robbins)

Misc

Thinking or Worried About Getting Your Microsoft Certification for SQL Server 2008? (Robert Shelton)
PowerShell Podcasts (Rhonda Tipton)
Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts From the Best Colleges in the World (OEDb)
BuildCop v1.0 Release (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (Dan Miser)
CodeIt.Right v1.0 Released! (Serge Baranovsky)

Other Link Blogs

New and Notable 223 (Sam Gentile)
10 Links Today (2008-02-05) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: February 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links (2/5/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
links for 2008-02-06 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #26 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – February 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Feb 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, WPF (Scott Guthrie)

Book of the Day

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5: Books: Omar AL Zabir

Technorati: daily links, programming, .net, microsoft, wpf, linq, books, podcasts

Daily Bits – February 5, 2008

Career

Word of Mouth Career Advice (Steve Clayton)

Misc

Battle of the Technorati Challenged (Russell Ball)
The Quest For Perfect Proportions in Your Software (Max Pool)
Official: Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing – Headed Your Way… in March (Thomas Ricker)
Windows Server 2008 Has RTM’d (Bob Fox)
Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008 (MS Downloads)
Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development (Ian Cooper)
SharePoint Search Ranking Rules and Running It Programatically (Sahil Malik)
TFS Sticky Buddy CodePlex Project (Martin Hinshelwood)

.NET

Shell Style Drag and Drop in .NET (WPF and WinForms) (Adam Root)
Fluency in Fluent Interfaces (Matthew Podwysocki)
LightSpeed 1.2 Released (John-Daniel Trask)
Exploring the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Brian Dawson)
Why I Changed My Mind About Extension Methods (James Newton-King)
Google Chart C# API (Steven Hildreth)
Zip/Unzip Folders and Files with C# (Peter Bromberg)
The Weekly Source Code 15 – Tiny Managed Operating System Edition (Scott Hanselman)
ORMs… Their Real Benefit (Jay Kimble)
Ruby.NET Is Dead (Antonio Cangiano)
LINQ to SQL DataContext Lifetime Management (Rick Strahl)

WPF

Connecting to the Wii Control with WPF (Rick Barraza)

Database

Get Your Database Under Version Control (Jeff Atwood)
Close Those Loopholes: Stress-Test Those Stored Procedures (Alex Kuznetsov)

Visual Studio

VS 2005 AddIns: NAntAddin and NUnitAddin
Breaking on Exceptions Reveals the Ugly Truth of Your Application (Derik Whittaker)

Events and Community

Presenting Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) at IASA Tampa Meeting in February (David Hayden)
Thinking Digital Conference (Steve Clayton)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 2, 2008, Link Listing – February 3, 2008 and Link Listing – February 4, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LinkList 03022008 – Dynamic Programming Design Patterns, Erlang/C# AMQP Client, AOP (Nauman Leghari)
LINKBLOG for February 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #25 (Chris Alcock)
links for 2008-02-05 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Books: Rebecca M. Riordan

Technorati: daily links, microsoft, programming, .net, database, books

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