Dew Drop – August 1, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Regions in Code Files (Chris Love)
• VS + ViEmu + (ReSharper Modded with AutoHotkey) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Playing with ADO.NET Data Services (Mike Hadlow)
• How to Program Visual Basic 2008 – A Master Text (Joe Stagner)
• .NET Rocks! – Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke on Active Reports and More (MS Downloads)
• LINQ to AD – Refresh Release 1.0.1 Available (Bart de Smet)
• Extension Methods Roundup: Intersect, Union, AsNullable and GroupEvery (Omer van Kloeten)
• RockScroll FTW (Shawn Wildermuth) – I’ll have to give this tool another try. I had some serious performance issue in Visual Studio the last time I tried it.
• Trusted Subsystem, WCF and IIS 5 – Revisited (Jimmy Bogard)
• Monadic Philosophy Part 3 – The Parser Monad in C# (Harry Pierson)

 

Blogging / Community / Events

• My Favorite .NET Link Blogs (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Thanks, Keyvan. There are a lot of good ones out there now. Personally, I’m a big fan of Arjan’s World.
• Some Stuff You May Have Missed (Davy Brion)
• Codestock Is One Week Away (Chris G. Williams)
• 15 Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed (Glen Stansberry)
• Stack Overflow Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 – ASMX Services & XmlSerializer (Mike Taulty)
• Learning WPF with BabySmash – Manually Managing ClickOnce and Some More Designer Goodness (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Methodology

• Entities Dependencies Best Practices and Logging the AOP Way and Code Reivews Are Not Just About the Code (Oren Eini)
• Getting Done the Lean Way (Raymond Lewallen)
• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Remote/Distributed Teams (MS Downloads)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #27 – Create ASP.NET MVC Specific Visual Studio Add-Ins (Stephen Walther)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available (Pete Brown)
• How to Implement a Pingback Handler in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• New Messenger Library – and a Word About Windows Live Dev (dev.live.com) (Kip Kniskern)

 

Miscellaneous

• Logic Puzzle: Buying Donuts Puzzle (Tom)
• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Vision Scope (CodePlex)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight News for July 31, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Interesting Finds: July 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 260 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.30-2008.08.01 (gOODiDEA)
• Links (7/31/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Link Listing – July 31, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #149 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 1, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Double Shot #261 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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