Month: November 2008

 

I’m trying out a new, one-post-per-weekend schedule. Weekday posts will remain daily.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to REST Data (Stephen Forte)
• WPF Themes Update (Rudi Grobler)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster for Download (Stephen Toub)
• The Future of C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Code Contracts for .NET 4.0 – Spec# Comes Alive (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Book Plug: The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition) and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Demo (Brad Abrams)
• The Future of LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• F# Zen – ROT13 (Chris Smith)
• Conversion Operator Behavior and Casting (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why Domain Specific Languages Are Important to Everyday Developers and MSchema and Decorator Tables (Shawn Wildermuth)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: v0.0.14189 (CodePlex)
• Microcode: Exploring More of .NET with Get-Assembly (James Brundage)
• A C# Library to Write Functional Code – Part V – The Match Operator (Luca Bolognese)

 

Web Development

• New Webcast: Syndication in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
• 10 Lessons Learned from Future of Web Design (Karl Swedberg)
• What’s New with Beginning ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Viewing a LOT of Images Effectively (Plus 700 Obama Newspaper Covers in Silverlight Deep Zoom) (Scott Hanselman)
• SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: LINQ Has Landed (Rob Conery)
• VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files (Jeff King)
• A Veritable Cornucopia of Silverlight Toolkit Resources (Shawn Burke)
• Controlling Service References in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating Websites Using Templates in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The patterns & practices Top Ten (Ade Miller)
• Video – Core, an AOP Framework (Sergio Pereira)
• Prism v2 – Drop 5 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
• Unity and AOP Example (David Hayden)
• Decoupling Your Classes (Mike Hall)
• Putting It to the Test (Pamela Greene) – Testing Chromium
• Learning WPF M-V-VM (Karl Shifflett)
• Boy Scout Check-Ins (Jeff Moser)

 

Database

• SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt (Boyan Kostadinov)
• Using a T-SQL Common Table Expression to Find Dupe Records (Stephen Forte)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Talk to (Geek) Girls Online – Social Networking Etiquette (Dana Coffey)
• Time to Slow Down the Oslo Hype and What’s Your Worst Day as a Coder? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Flickr4Writer Service Pack Update (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #17: Discussions About Gnome, Linux and Software Development with Luis Villa – Part 2 and Episode #18: PDC 2008 Podcaster Roundtable with StackOverflow and Herding Code (Keith Elder)
• Parallel Programming and the Virtual PC Limitation (Daniel Moth)
• My Elevate-Process Script (Harry Pierson)
• Video NINE Questions with Richard Campbell (Chris G. Williams)
• Windows 7 Post-PDC Roundup, Links Galore (Emil Protalinski)
• 11 Great Free Portable Apps for Blogging on the Go! (Lee Matthews)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2008 — #422 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for November 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #85 (Darren Stokes)
• New and Notable 277 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for November 7th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NH Prof Deep Dive: The Integration Test Architecture (Oren Eini)
• Designing the Team Room, Take 2 (Dave Laribee)
• A Base Fixture Class Can Help Reduce Repetative Code (Karl Seguin) – Co-Link of the Day
• The Near Future of Code Correctness (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Case Study in Design Tradeoffs: Usability vs Discoverability (Phil Haack)
• Solving Problems with TDD (Christopher Bennage)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• First In-Depth Look at Microsoft’s Oslo and the "M" Modeling Language (William Vambenepe)
• More PDC 2008 Bits Exploration: Visual Studio 2010 (Ted Neward)
• C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 1 – Optional Parameters (Bart de Smet)
• TFS Sticky Buddy 2.0 Development Started (Martin Hinshelwood)
• LINQ to CSLA CTP (CodePlex)
• Exploring Oslo: Using Mg to Define a To-Do Language (Justin Bailey)
• Semi-Short Video on M – aka M Is Like an Onion (Jon Flanders)
• A Tour of WPF (Mike Taulty)
• Building Applications with DLinq Designer (Satheesh Kumar)
• Some Thoughts on Oslo… (Brian Loesgen)

 

Web Development

• REST != HTTP (Ted Neward)
• The Future of Waegis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• One-to-Many Relationships in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• Working with ADO.NET Data Services in AJAX (Jim Wang)
• From ASP Stock Projects to Web Application Projects in VS 2008 (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET Routing + Just Enough Rope (Chris Cavanagh)
• Friday Books – "Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008" (Dave M. Bush)
• Step Aside StackOverflow, Here’s HaackOverflow (Phil Haack)
• Querying Table Entities with Microsoft Azure (and ADO.NET Data Services Framework) (Tom Hearn)

 

Miscellaneous

• A First-Hand Account of Life in Microsoft’s Temporary Housing (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Microsoft’s Environmental Technologist on Sustainability and "Green-Washing" (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Multi-Touch Enlightenment with IdentityMine and VectorForm (Adam Kinney)
• Converting VS2010 CTP VPC to Hyper-V (Grant Holliday) – Co-Link of the Day
• Killer Live Mesh Demos at PDC (Steve Clayton)
• Live Mesh to Support Devices and Peripherals, Hints at FrameIt Integration (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 6, 2008 and Innovation Notes: November 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2008 — #421 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.11.01~2008.11.07 (yuanjian)
• LINKBLOG for November 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #218 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 07, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• CloudNews for November 6th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Flander’s Introduction to M in "Oslo" (Aaron Skonnard)
• Table Value Parameters Make Life Easier for C# Developers (Stephen Forte)
• Farseer Physics Engine – Release v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Features Walkthrough with Screen Shots (Charles Sterling)
• More Fun with C# 4.0 – Dynamic REST Service Calls (Nikhil Kothari)
• Extending Reflector: Menus, ContextMenus and Toolbars (Jason Haley)
• When to Call Dispose (Kim Hamilton)
• VS 2005 SP1 Update for SQL Server 2008 Support (MS Downloads)
• Initial Impressions on the XNA 3.0 Platformer Starter Kit (Chris G. Williams)

 

Web Development

• App Areas in ASP.NET MVC, Take 2 (Steve Sanderson)
• jQuery-Based Ajax.NET Library (G. Stolarov)
• Donut Caching in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET and jQuery (Scott Hanselman)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF DataGrid – New Item Template Sample (Vincent Sibal)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight Webcast on 11/13 (Rockford Lhotka)
• The Weekly Source Code 36 – PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Gazing with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight 2 Application Structure and Execution Cycle (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Data Services Is Cool… but It Won’t Work in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• WPF Themes Released (Rudi Grobler)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• patterns & practices Ships More Stuff and Enterprise Service Bus from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Designing the Team Room (Dave Laribee)
• The Bastardization of Agile (Bob McIlree)
• Agile Architecture Method (J.D. Meier)
• A Case Study of Bad API Design: ASP.NET MVC Routing (Oren Eini)
• Unity Application Block and Decorator Pattern (David Hayden)
• Code Digger Session on Channel 9 (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Great Reasons Why Lonely Developers Need Source Control (Sara J. Chipps)
• Designing a Language Is Hard, and M Won’t Change That (Frans Bouma) – Link of the Day

 

SharePoint

• New Release: patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance (J.D. Meier)

 

Miscellaneous

• Hey Startups – Get Some BizSpark (Tim Heuer)
• Announcing Microsoft BizSpark (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Azure Preview, Part 1 and Live Mesh Is in Beta… with Mac and Windows Mobile Support (Paul Thurrott)
• BizSpark – Crack or a Crutch? (Ben Kepes)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #28 (Jeff Atwood)
• Video NINE Questions with Steven "Doc" List (Chris G. Williams)
• WinHEC: Microsoft Shows Off Windows 7 Fundamentals (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Shows Windows 7 on Eee PC (Todd Bishop)
• How to Keep Track of Ideas with a Mind Map (Simone Chiaretta)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 5th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF (Scott Guthrie)
• Tech Twitterings #2 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for November 05, 2008 — #420 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 5, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Triple Shot Links #9 (Russell Ball)
• Links (11/5/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #217 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 06, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

Book of the Day