Month: March 2010

Off to Vegas tomorrow morning. Watch for MIX10 coverage on DZone’s .NET Zone.

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• .toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training (Adam Kinney)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp is One Week Away – Help Still Needed! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Ms-PL Source Release for System.Web.Mvc 2 (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Printing the File Path in the Page Header and Automatic vs. Default in Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC (Jim Holmes)
• That Splitting Thing (Oliver Sturm)
• Visual Studio Addin failed to load (Patrick Smacchia)
• dotTrace 3.1 64-bit disabled inside Visual Studio 2008 (Sergio Pereira)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds (Stephen Forte)
• TOC and excerpts for Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• SQL Style Extensions for C# (Leon Bambrick)
• Announcing the MEF Contrib Documentation Project (Chris Woodruff)
• Including Existing Templates in a VSIX Container (Aaron Marten)

 

Web Development

• Daily Dose – ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory (Michael C. Neel)
• Azure: The true cost of web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists (Mike Brind)
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build (David Ebbo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• Leadership Tip – Letting The Critic Speak Up Whenever Needed. (Rajiv Popat)
• The cult of busy (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• “Advanced MVVM” Book Review (Justin Angel)
• Previewing fonts in WPF with no code or executable (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW (Silverlight Team)
• The MIX10 Trivia Application – Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek (Brian Lagunas)
• A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM (András Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 88: Coding 4 Fun with Clint Rutkas (Dave Bost)
• GDC 2010: XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Tina Wood)
• SP Tech Con Interviews-Episode 43 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft CRM (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Cover Episode 4 – CDN (Ryan Dunn)
• jQuery Podcast 15 – John Resig (1.4.1 – 1.4.2) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Connected Show Podcast: The One About The News (Brian Johnson)
• Community Megaphone Show #5 with guest Steve Michelotti (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #85 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• AgiliTrain is Giving Away Three Seats to Silverlight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• IE9 and MIX10: six big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Mike Swanson on MIX10 (Frank La Vigne)
• Some of the ways to keep up with MIX10 (Devon Musgrave)
• What to expect (and what not to) from Mix (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 CTP 1 and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update) (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Powershell (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Your Interview: Question & answer game plan (Part 3 of 3) (Ryan Graves)
• Facebook Add-ons for IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• F# Discoveries This Week 03/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources from MSDN Event – Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, SharePoint 2010 (Dave Bost)

 

The Geek Shelf

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