Month: August 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• On Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• Enumeration Classes (Jimmy Bogard)
• Updated Entity Framework Samples for RTM (Jaroslaw Kowalski)
• Problems with Team Explorer After Installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM (Martin Hinshelwood) – Luckily I didn’t encounter this problem.
• WCF: The Type Provided as the Service Attribute Could Not Be Found (Josh Twist)
• Concurrency on a Single Thread (G. Neverov)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 7 (Justin Etheredge)
• ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions – Release for VS 2008 SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Contextual Binding with StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build and Continuous Integration – Toolgasm Achieved (Roy Osherove)
• Testing Browser-Based WPF Applications (Charles Sterling)
• Encapsulating Test Data and Expectations (John Teague)
• Recovering a Project with ASP.NET MVC and Agile (Casey Charlton)
• Who Do You Design For: Clients or Users? (Brian Haught)
• Business Requirements Are Bullshit (Steve Yegge)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using CSLA Light Part 4 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Custom Controls: Weather Control Part 2 – The Slider (Denislav Savkov)
• Introduction to Layout Controls in Silverlight 2 (Dan Wahlin)
• 3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of My To-Do List (Jesse Liberty)
• Walk-through: Silverlight Flickr Client in IronRuby (Jimmy Schementi) – Link of the Day, if/when the link starts working again.
• Silverlight File Uploader (Silverlight Show)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #31 – Passing Data to Master Pages and User Controls (Stephen Walther)
• Scaling Web Applications – Recommended Readings (Eran Kampf)
• How to Easily Enhance Your Existing Tables with Simple CSS (Dave Ward)
• Google Unveils Open Source Security Tool (J.R. Raphael)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Abstractions & the Community and When NOT to Use ‘WHERE’ (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell Power User Tips: A Better Prompt (Joel Bennett)

 

Events / Community

• Philadelphia IT Architect Regional Conference, Sept. 23-24, 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• BarCamp Philly Kickoff! (Roz Duffy)

 

Database

• Understanding SQL Execution Plan (Part I) (Chirag Patel)
• SQL for Developers – 9 Reasons to Bother (Dave M. Bush)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Infrastructure Architecture Resources (Chandima Kulathilake)
• Announcing Faceted Search v2.5 (Leonid Lyublinski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Positively Negative (Davy Brion)
• Top 10 Killer Photoshop Combo Moves (Tom Giannattasio)
• Got Shoes? (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #64 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for August 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 12, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#15 – Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM and WSDAC#15 – Art of Gathering Business Requirements (Dilip Krishnan)
• Link Listing – August 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #157 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 13, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Double Shot #268 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

I’ve tried to keep the SP1 announcement noise to a minimum. I’m sure most of you have already heard the news.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Release to Manufacturing (Peter Provost)
• Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: LINQ Perf Improvements (LINQ to Objects and LINQ to SQL) (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (Charlie Calvert)
• ADO.NET: What’s New in VS 2008 SP1? (ADO.NET Team)
• Code Snippets for Common Tasks in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
• Transparent Lazy Loading for Entity Framework – Release for VS2008 SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Microsoft Worried Over .NET Fragmentation (David Worthington)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using CSLA Light Part 3 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight Tools (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 Tools, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Installed & Working Together (Bart Czernicki)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 9: A Practical Look at Silverlight – Part 1 (Keith Elder)
• Tip: Binding and Getting Data Async From a Web Service (Emil Stoychev)
• DeepLOL (Sarah Perez)
• How IE8 Enables Silverlight Deep Linking and Browser Back/Forward Navigation (Michael Scherotter)
• Introduction to WPF DataGrid (Rudi Grobler)

 

Web Development

• Learn HTML. But Only If You Want To (Kyle Baley)
• 5 Useful Coding Solutions for Designers and Developers (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "If Microsoft Is So Good at Testing, Why Does Your Software Suck?" (James Whittaker)
• Agile 2008 – Scrum and Kanban (Ade Miller)

 

Events / Community

• CodeStock 2008 Post-Stock (Rachel Appel)
• MSDN Events Are Back Again (Lindsay Rutter)
• Cool PDC2008 Contests (Lynn Langit)
• SharePoint Pod Show Number 2 Up (Nick)
• CodeStock Debrief (Chris G. Williams)
• Special Stack Overflow Development Team Podcast (Jeff Atwood)
• Philly ALT.NET Meeting – Wed, Aug. 13th (Brian Donahue)

 

Miscellaneous

• PR-less Launch Kicks Off a Stack Overflow of Praise (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives (Sara Ford) – Link of the Day
• Razume: Crowdsource Your Resume (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Live Wave 3: Messenger v9 – M1 Dogfood Build Review and Screenshots (Chris)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 263 and New and Notable 264 – VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 RTM! (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight News for August 11, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• LINKBLOG for August 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #93 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.08.06~2008.08.12 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for August 11, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Link Listing – August 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight News for August 12, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• The Morning Brew #156 (Chris Alcock)

 

Books of the Day

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Low-Latency GC in .NET 3.5 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• C# Refcard Available – Download Now (Jill Tomich)

 

Design / Methodology

• Patch Now – What Does It Mean? (Michael Janke) – Link of the Day
• Scrum Bestiary – The Fox (Ade Miller)
• Destroying Teams One Broken Window at a Time (Max Pool)
• How Bad Comments Are Born in Your Code (Daniel Pietraru)

 

Miscellaneous

• Music to (Not) Code By (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 54 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2008 — #343 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #13 (Grant Palin)
• Link Listing – August 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #155 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #63 (Darren Stokes)

 

Book of the Day