Month: August 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Another Rhino Mocks Extension Method to Support Your AAA Style (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Book Review: LINQ in Action (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Optimization Modeling Language Sample Utilizing Microsoft Solver Foundation (Don Syme)
• Statically Typed Duck Typing in F# (Michael Giagnocavo)
• FSharpp to FSProj Converter (Chris Smith)
• Custom Enumerators (Jaime Olivares)
• Introduction to Attached Behaviors in WPF (Josh Smith)

 

Design / Methodology

• DDD and Huge Collections. Eeugh! (Tobin Harris)
• Architecture by Baseball: Stats (Larry Clarkin)
• Book Review: Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C# (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Revisiting the Onion (Kyle Baley)
• The Fable of the Perfect ORM (Shawn Wildermuth)
• "97 Things" – Architect Axioms (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

 

Web Development

• Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK 0.3 (Jimmy Schementi)
• "Secret" Questions (Sam Buchanan)
• Building Composite Apps with Silverlight (Glenn Block)
• Unable to Debug Web Site with Top Level Location (Rick Strahl)

 

Database

• PowerShell vs T-SQL & Why Learn PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)
• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to Table-Valued Parameters with Example (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why I Don’t Care About Feed Subscribers Count (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• WordPress – 10 Tips and Recommendations (Eran Kampf)

 

More Link Collections

• Some More Interesting Finds This Week (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – August 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

F#

• F# Addin for MonoDevelop (Don Syme)
• F# Releases September 2008 CTP! (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Welcome to the F# CTP Project System: Project Templates and Project Property Pages (Brian)
• Functional Programming and F#: Introduction and Functional Programming and F#: Newton Basin Fractal Example Code (Jonathan Birge)
• F# Optimization Modeling Language Utilizing Microsoft Solver Foundation – Release: F# Optimization DSL (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with LINQ’s Expression Trees Visually (Rob Conery)
• New Content Available: AI Flocking, Shadow Mapping, and Multipass Lighting Shaders! (XNA Team)
• C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool (MS Downloads)
• Code Analysis Dictionary Schema – Release: 2008.08.29 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Framework Design Studio – Release: FDS 1.1.3 Build 20080829 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Asynchronously Execute PowerShell Scripts from C# (Jean-Paul Mikkers)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Wrong with a Data-Driven Approach? (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Handling Passwords (DevPrime)
• MbUnit Combinational Test (Andrew Stopford)
• Recommended Books: Clean Code (Davy Brion)
• Unit Driven – Release v0.0.2 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Publishing Compliant HTML and Web Markup (Chris Love)
• Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Released and How a Method Becomes an Action (Phil Haack)
• FxCop for Ajax Code (Nikhil Kothari)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #40 – Don’t Cache Pages That Require Authentication (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 3) (Martin Grayson)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #34 – How to Center Your Silverlight Application in Your Browser (Mike Snow)
• Thoughts on MVP and WebForms (Chad Myers)
• Web Scraping, HTML/XML Parsing, and Firebug’s Copy XPath Feature (Chinh Do)

 

Events / Community

• NHForge.org for NHibernate (Chris Brandsma)
• jQuery Site Redesign – The Community Speaks (Rey Bango)
• Dear Joe: I’m NORM.Net (Keith Elder)
• Bambrick versus Hanselman: Bring It! (Leon Bambrick) – Best. Post. Ever… Link of the Day
• NINE Questions with Lisa Feigenbaum (Chris G. Williams)
• Steve Ballmer Inherits Bill Gates’ CES Keynote (Wolfgang Gruener)

 

Database

• Guaranteeing the Order of Results in SQL Server (Josh Twist)

 

SharePoint

• Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series (Arpan Shah)
• Creating Workflows in Microsoft Office Live (Rohit Puri)
• Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library (Randall Isenhour)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing New C# 4.0 LINQ Features and Book (Omer van Kloeten) – Ha… Very nice.   🙂
• Why I Made the Switch to Microsoft and Expression Web (Steve Hebert)
• Does Your Application Have a Blog? (Oren Eini)
• Download: Microsoft Research AutoCollage 2008 (MS Research)
• Trustworthy Browsing with IE8: Summary (Eric Lawrence)
• Boot Performance (Michael Fortin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2008.08.27~2008.08.29 (gOODiDEA)
• Some Interesting Finds This Week (Jason Haley)
• New on Tips and Tricks Blog! (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Top 10 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) Articles You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Morning Coffee 173 (Harry Pierson)
• Greatest Hits (Chinh Do)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Design / Methodology

• Current Coding Style (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• An Entry Into Lean (Raymond Lewallen)
• Agile 2008 – Conway’s Law and Distributed Teams (Ade Miller)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to XSD (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Palindromes in C# (Philip Fitzsimons)
• Visual Studio Next Wish List (Chris Love)
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 3 and Intermezzo: SOS in Visual Studio (Bart de Smet)
• Async Operations in WCF: Handling Exceptions (Dan Rigsby)
• The State of IronRuby on the ALT.NET Podcast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code #14 and TFS/VS Phantom Checkouts (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages Into the Visual Studio Fold (Rick Minerich)
• GhostDoc Tweaks (Roland WeigeIt)
• HealthVault Patient Connect and Master-Child App Sample – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Sneak Peeks Into the F# Project System, Part Two (Brian)
• How to Find the Intersection of Multiple Lists (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Sources Are Available! (Stephen Wilson) – Link of the Day
• An Update on My Illustrator Plug-In and Flash to XAML Conversion Tool (Mike Swanson)

 

Web Development

• Popfly Game Creator Now in Beta (Popfly Team)
• Screencast: Hosting WCF Services in ASP.NET/IIS (Aaron Skonnard)
• Creating Vista Style Login Screen with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and iPhone UI with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC (Preview 4) – Part III (Ivan Limansky)
• Building a Custom XML Configuration System for ASP.NET – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly (Jeff Atwood)
• Service Driven Apps with WCF and Silverlight 2 (John Papa)
• 10 Free Image Resources for Website Design (Dana Coffey)
• Getting Started with jQuery QUnit for Client-Side Javascript Testing (Chad Myers)
• Managing Long-Lived Transactions with MassTransit.Saga (Chris Patterson)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC Sitemap Provider with Security Trimming (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 Released (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• Query Execution Statistics in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Sumair Shaikh)
• LINQ to SQL Queries Involving Strings Cause SQL Server Procedure Cache Bloat (Denis Gobo) – Yikes! Watch out for this.

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 Is Now Available (Zach Rosenfield)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Creating Good Guidance for SharePoint Developers (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• IE8 Part I: Better Everyday Browsing and Part II (Paul Cutsinger)
• I’m in It for the Technology and Awesome 3D Spatial Navigation in Silverlight 2 (Pete Brown)
• 5 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting an iPhone (Mike Gunderloy)
• An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A (Ed Bott)
• Live Mesh: New Service Update (Sunshine)
• Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines (MS Downloads)
• Great Developers Are Hard to Find, Regardless of Language (Jay Fields)
• 10 Weblog Engines Reviewed (Glen Stansberry)
• Hug a Developer (Max Pool)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 270 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for August 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (8/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSDAC#17 – 97 Things Every Architect Should Know! (Dilip Krishnan)
• Innovation Notes: August 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2008 — #358 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – August 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for August 29, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• The Morning Brew #168 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #280 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Book of the Day