Dew Drop – June 25, 2008

 

Long list of quality posts today. Enjoy!

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Synchronized Dictionary (Schalk Neethling)
• F-In-Box (via DotNetKicks) – A .NET Flash container control.
• .NET Rocks! – Naveen Yajaman on Visual Studio Tools for Applications (MS Downloads)
• VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• The Dreaded No Such Interface Supported Error (Darren Stokes)
• Oh That No-Confidence Vote on E.F. and Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL and EF (Julie Lerman)
• Dissecting LINQ Expression Trees – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Back to Basics: var != Dim (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day (tie)
• WCF Unity (CodePlex)
• Twitter WCF Client (Petar Vucetin)
• An xUnit.net Assert.Throws Code Snippet (Ade Miller)
• Foundations of Programming Ebook (Karl Seguin)
• Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET (MS Research)
• Design of LINQ to SQL – What Was I Thinking or Was I? (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• The var War is Brewing (Derik Whittaker)

 

Web Development

• Resolving HttpContext Members Using Ninject Providers (Matt Hinze)
• Tools to Block and Eradicate SQL Injection (Joe Stagner)
• Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection (MS Downloads)
• MVC Storefront: What’s Next with Episode 15 (Rob Conery)
• Hosting an Entire ASP.NET MVC Request for Testng Purposes (Chad Myers)
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles and Profile – Part 11 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC Content Aggregator (Simone Chiaretta)
• Doesn’t Anyone Bookmark Anymore? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #1 – Create New HTML Helpers with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)

 

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 2 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Looking at nServiceBus – Added to Tonight’s Presentation (Sam Gentile)
• DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling (Cameron Skinner)
• Designing Controllers (Sean Chambers)
• The Art of Software Estimation (Joel Ross)
• Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) (Max Pool)
• Does Our Addiction on Visual Tooling Harm the Rate of Innovation in the .NET World? (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day (tie)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight and PrismAG (Gunther Lenz)
• Client-Side Database with Silverlight? (Peter Bromberg)
• Silverlight Soft-Body Physics (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight 2 Media Player Project Now Open Source (Tim Heuer)
• Fish Eye Control in Silverlight (Andrew Woodward)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Animating Controls (Martin Grayson)
• Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ (Beth Massi)
• WPF Flickr Viewer Using LINQ to XML (Sacha Barber)
• CSLA Light Data Portal and N-Level Undo (Rocky Lhotka)
• Tweening Equations for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)

 

Miscellaneous

• Evernote 3.0 Polishes Interface, Add Mac Client (Kevin Purdy)
• Dime Casts – Great Ten Minute Development Tutorials (Rhonda Tipton)
• Replacing Notepad with Notepad 2 and Quite Tip: Making Firefox Work with SharePoint (Brian Ellis)
• Microsoft VP Confirms Windows 7 Ship Date: January 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood)
• ATM Fail! (FAIL Blog) – Windows activation message on an ATM screen. Nice.
• PowerShell Authenticode Signatures and Trust… (Joel Bennett)
• Discovering Great XP and Vista Themes (Sarah Perez)

 

SharePoint

• Indexing and Searching Documents in Multiple Languages (Part I) (Patrick Tisseghem)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 24, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (6/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSDAC#8 – MVP MVC and Everything In-Between and WMOC#8 – Functional Programming in C# and WSOAC#21 – Service Design (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #122 (Chris Alcock)

 

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