Month: September 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Framework 3.5-SP1: WPF Performance Improvements (Joel)
• WPF Presence Controls for Office Communicator 2007 (George Durzi)
• Adding Custom Menu Items to Visual Studio, and Mouse Support for the Clipboard History Plug-In (Mark Miller)
• Persistence Ignorance (POCO) Adapter for Entity Framework – Release: EF POCO Adapter v1.02 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

F# for Game Development (by Joh)

• Introduction
• Tutorial 1: Hello World
• Tutorial 2: Simple Functions
• Tutorial 3: Looping
• Tutorial 4: Manipulating Functions
• Tutorial 5: Native RK4
• Interlude: Disassembling F# Code

 

Web Development

• From Flex to Silverlight (Ray Houston)
• Update for Windows Live Writer DZone PlugIn on CodePlex (John Papa)
• System.UriTemplate and System.UriTemplateTable (Ryan Olshan)
• Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use in JavaScript with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 (Peter Kellner)
• WCF and Large Amounts of Data (Davy Brion)

 

Design / Methodology

• It Is BDUF, Not DUF (Justin Etheredge)
• Code Health (Davy Brion)

 

Events / Community

• The Two ALT.NET Criterion (Dave Laribee) – Link of the Day

 

Miscellaneous

• Learn Photoshop in One Week (Adam Pash)
• Follow-Up on High DPI Resolution (Ryan Haveson)
• How to Access Windows Home Server from Mac OS X (Taimur Asad)
• Running VisualSVN Server for Subversion Source Control (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Fires Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Whistleblower (Stephen Kamizuru)

 

More Link Collections

• Link Listing – September 12, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• LINKBLOG for September 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Innovation Notes: September 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Design / Methodology

• Evolutionary SOA (Martin Fowler)
• Some IoC Container Guidelines (Jimmy Bogard)
• Software Is a Team Sport (Tami Carter)
• Input for the Connected Health Framework (Roberto Ruggeri)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition Available on Safari (Jay Fields)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fixing the Start Position and Dynamically Updating the Clipboard History Form (Mark Miller)
• Side Effects and Functional Programming and Object Oriented F# – More Extension Everything (Matthew Podwysocki)
• XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta Release on Its Way! (Michael Klucher)
• Scripting in F# (Chris Smith)
• Expression Framework versus Composite WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Microsoft Health Common User Interface – Release v1.5.0.000 (CodePlex)
• LINQ2SQLExtensions – Release v2.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Dynamic Controls Creation in a C# WPF Application (Part 2) (Sumair Shaikh)
• Microsoft Visual Studio – Oslo (Gunther Lenz) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #5 – Membership (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #40: 1.05 != 1.05 – Peril with Floating Point Comparisons (Mike Snow)
• Lullaby’s Authentication Provider Framework (Ryan Olshan)
• jQuery Demo 1 (John Teague)
• Digging Into Custom Controls (Jesse Liberty)
• Terminal Services Web Access with Silverlight Beta (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Miscellaneous

• Zune Sends Genius Back to School (Steve Clayton)
• Games We’re Looking Forward To: Little Big Planet (Dave Banks)
• Now Running on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Searching by Relevance [CodePlex] (Sara Ford)
• SQL Server 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers – Part 2 and Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part II: A Few More Features (Christopher Vaughan & Seth McLaughlin)
• Wil Wheaton Invokes Rule 17b (Ken Denmead)
• Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery (Andy Patrizio)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for September 12, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for September 12, 2008 — #367 (Dave Campbell)
• Afternoon Coffee 174 (Harry Pierson)
• Weekly Link Post 59 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Web Development

• MSDN Social Bookmarks: Feedburner Flare and New Webcast: Understanding REST (Dan Rigsby)
• The Best (and Next Best) Possible Advice I Could Give You About Using the MVC Framework (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The .NET Framework and the Browser’s UserAgent String and The Weekly Source Code 33 – Microsoft Open Source Inside Google Chrome (Scott Hanselman)
• Ajax Preview 2 : Declarative Instantiation of AjaxControlToolkit Controls (Phani Raj)
• Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler (Sameer Chabungbam)
• jQuery CSS Property Monitoring Plug-In Updated (Rick Strahl)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Virtual Earth and Microsoft Popfly (Chris Pendleton)
• Introduction to the DataGrid Control in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• New Patient Journey Demonstrator at MSCUI.net (Martin Grayson)
• WPF Leverage (Paul Stovell)
• The Difference Between Understanding a Concept… (Jesse Liberty) – Link of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• CRUD Operations in ADO.NET Data Services with Custom Provider (Gil Fink)
• Messing with Dynamic LINQ Queries (Mike Taulty)
• Framework 3.5 SP1 and ClickOnce (Joel)
• Data Structures and Algorithms 0.6 Released (Granville Barnett)
• CodePlex.Snippets – Release v1.0.0.0 Production (VS2008) (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology

• The ALT.NET Criterion (Glenn Block)
• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (Bob Familiar)
• P&P Architectural Guidance Version 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• My Default ASP.NET Architecture (Chris Brandsma)
• .NET Application Modeling Language (nAML) Specification and Tools – Release: nAML v1.0 (Beta 1) (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Multi-Process Architecture (Charlie Reis)

 

Database

• Today’s WTF (Mike Hadlow)

 

Career / Interviewing

• Finding Inspiration (Larry Clarkin)
• What Does an SDET Hiring Manager Look for in a Resume? (Lisa)
• SQL Server 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)

 

Events / Community

• Philly .NET User Group Meeting for September 2008 (Nick Berardi) – It should be a great meeting with Rachel Appel and Nick both speaking.
• VSX Converence Presentations – Release: Slides (MSDN Code Gallery)
• NINE Questions with Liza Kindred (Chris G. Williams)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #12: Going Home with the Home Server Team (Keith Elder)

 

Miscellaneous

• On Certification (James Whittaker)
• Why I Am One of the Worst Programmers on the Planet (in Some Circles)? (Jay Kimble)
• Windows 7 Beta 1 Tracking for Mid-December (Mary Jo Foley)
• Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, Take Two (Eran Kampf)
• Gmail Reply Enhancements (Ionut Alex Chitu)
• Lighting Up Live Mesh (Steve Clayton)
• The IE8 Smart Address Bar Without Windows Search (Christopher Vaughan & Seth McLaughlin)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Find #98 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: September 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 11, 2008 — #366 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for September 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (9/11/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WMOC#19 – More Oslo! and WSOAC#32 – W(H)OA! Google Chrome! and WSDAC#19 – Architecture Resource (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #178 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for September 12, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Link Listing – September 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

Book of the Day