Day: June 27, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the Current Application’s Memory Usage (Richard Carr)
• Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Effective EF with Oracle (Julie Lerman)
• F#: More thoughts on the forward & application operators (Mark Needham)
• Mapping WF 3 activities to WF 4 (Matt Milner)
• Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 1 and D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 2 (Dan Simmons)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Behaviors, Triggers and Actions snippets (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-2 and Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3 (Faisal Hossain Khan)

 

Web Development

• The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit (David Ebbo)
• Adding Events to User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state (Tess Ferrandez)
• Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• Is It Too Late To Change JSON? (Phil Haack)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Open Spaces at work (Larry Clarkin) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)
• Fluent Interface for NH Facility – Take 1 (Tuna Toksoz)
• The Rush (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Focuses on IoC Containers for Configuration (David Hayden)
• Silverlight Geek – An interview with Jesse Liberty (Adam Kinney)
• When agile goes bad, slides and pointers (Sebastien Lambla)
• Iterators at the Summer Games (Eric Lippert)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• "I’m a VB" Interview: Julie Lerman, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP and "I’m a VB" Interview: Bill Vaughn, Visual Basic MVP (Beth Massi)
• This Week C9: Revolution 9 – The Future of Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 25: Fixing PIA Pains with Type Equivalence (Jason Olson)
• Herding Code 51: Greg Young on Our Grand Failure – Thoughts on DDDD (Jon Galloway)
• Show: Episode #3 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Road Thoughts – Visible Metrics (Corey Haines)
• VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon (Jennifer Marsman)
• Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making… (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Community / Events

• Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC (Elijah Manor)
• Two VANs on Castle Project (Tuna Toksoz)
• Architecture Summit in Southfield, MI (Jennifer Marsman)

 

SharePoint

• Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3 (Paul Andrew)
• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)

 

Database

• DBA SQLCLR Procedures (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 17892 Logon failed for login due to trigger execution. Changed database context to ‘master’. (Pinal Dave)
• SQLDBCrypt – Open Source Database Encryption For SQL Server. (Rajiv Popat)
• Can’t depend on sp_depends? Try using sp_refreshsqlmodule and Adding time offsets passed in to a datetime to generate localized datetime (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Download Free WebRadio Add-in for Windows Home Server (Blake Handler)
• Bing cashback 101 (Raju Malhotra)
• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• When Windows Home Server crashes… (Rockford Lhotka)
• Zoho: We’re launching something, sometime next week (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Download seven Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• 11 Magazines This Magazine Likes (Jason English)
• Designing input for a script (Ed Wilson)
• WMI: Improving your WMI application performance in fan-out scenario (Andy Cheung)
• Create a Syslog Sender/Receiver Using the MS Winsock Control (Gustav Brock)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2009 — #623 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 335 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)

 

Book of the Day