Dew Drop – April 17, 2008

 

Silverlight/WPF

• Webcast: Event Handling (Jesse Liberty)
• My Digg Mashup – Part 2: Laying Your Project Out (Jose Fajardo)
• Silverlight 2 Essential Getting Started Facts and Guide (Daniel Moth)
• p&p Prism – Release Drop 04-15-2008 (CodePlex)

 

.NET

• LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client – Part 3: Database Transactions (Beth Massi)
• Entity Framework Is… Complex (Julie Lerman)
• Never Ever Synchronize Threads Without Specifying a Timeout Value (Pawel Pabich)
• .NET Obfuscators (Timm Martin)
• Enumerating the GAC Using ‘foreach’ (Adrian Aisemberg)

 

Web Development

• Action Behavior Using ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib and ASP.NET MVC Framework – New Build Available – Source Includes Unit Tests (Jeffrey Palermo)
• ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview (Scott Guthrie)
• Google I/O Coming Soon, Free Passes Now (John Musser)
• Javascript: Introducing Using (.js) (Jon Davis)
• Having a Crush on jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Visual Studio

• ReSharper’s “Go to Type by Name” Window Accepts Wildcards! (Jeremy Jarrell)
• VSX Community Letter for April 2008 (Ken Levy)
• Good Tools and ReSharper 4 EAP Thoughts (Jacob Lewallen)
• Trying Out PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008 (Guy Burstein)
• Spec# v1.0.20411 for Visual Studio 2008 (MS Research Downloads)

 

Events/Community

• How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Go to DevTeach (Kyle Baley)
• Introducing Stackoverflow.com (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• Web Stress Test White Paper Published (Michael Watson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Directions on Microsoft – Free Chapter on Microsoft Online (Steve Clayton)
• Source Control Is Not a Feature You Can Postpone to vNext (Oren Eini)
• PowerShell Power User Tips: Current Directory (Joel Bennett)
• Introducing Mingle 2.0 (Adam Monago)

 

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-04-16) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for April 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #75 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #189 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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