Dew Drop – May 10, 2008

 

Career

• Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects (Celine Roque)
• Live Mesh Are Hiring (Steve Clayton)

 

Visual Studio

• 6 Useful Visual Studio Tweaks You Need to Know (Shahar Yair)
• Introducing RockScroll (Scott Hanselman) – Awesome free tool written by Rocky Downs. Link of the Day.

 

WPF / Silverlight

• Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (MS Downloads) – This 5/9 refresh works with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta.
• Metadata – A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Hey! I’m Over Here (Karl Shifflett)
• Death, Taxes, and Deep Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Build a Game in Silverlight and Win an Xbox 360! (Joe Stagner)
• Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One (Faisal Khan)
• How to Convert an Excel Graph to a Silverlight Application (Andrej Benedik)
• BBC Goes DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

 

.NET

• Another Domain Developer’s View of Entity Framework and Lazy Loading (Julie Lerman)
• Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep: Skinning Your WinForms Applications (Jacob Lauzier)
• SecureString in .NET 2.0 (Satheesh Babu)
• Using LINQ to Perform “WHERE IN (Value1, Value2)” Queries (Dan Wahlin)
• LINQ Query Operators: Lost That foreach Already! (Jimmy Bogard)
• Taming Trees: Building Branching Structures (Rod Stephens)
• TypeConverters: There’s Not Enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the World (Scott Hanselman)
• The Weekly Source Code 26 – LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)
• Read Brian’s Blog on F# (Bryan Bell)
• Shoutcast.NET – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Fun, Fun, Fun with ADO and Unicode Characters (Gary Sherman)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices (Tanzim Saqib)
• Creating Great Thumbnails in ASP.NET (Matt)
• String Performance: An Analysis (Tom Trenka) – A performance analysis of JavaScript string operations in various browsers.
• Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Miscellaneous

• DZone Refcardz (dzone) – Free PDF cheatsheets quick reference cards.
• 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog From Sucking (Tess Ferrandez)
• Having Fun with Project Managers! (or: Why You Should Lock Your Desktop) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Behind Live Mesh: What Is MOE? (Richard Chung)
• Remoting with PowerShell QuickStart (Krishna Vutukuri)
• SharePoint End User Security (Arpan Shah)

 

Link-O-Rama

• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/09 (Rob Relyea)
• Link Listing – May 8, 2008 and Link Listing – May 9, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 09, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-09) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #66 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for May 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 — #271 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.10 (gOODiDEA)
• New and Notable 240 (Sam Gentile)

 

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