Dew Drop – May 6, 2008

 

Silverlight/WPF/Popfly

• Silverlight Attached Properties for WPF Developers (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Behaviors (Nikhil Kothari)
• Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight (Brad Abrams)
• Binding to Anonymous Types in an Xbap or Silverlight Application (Mike Hillberg)
• Popfly Game Creator Video Tutorials (Popfly Team)
• Creating Controls in Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Developers Can Create Some Amazing Stuff Using Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio – Available for Download Now (Dave)
• Unity and Silverlight: It Can Be Done! (Chris)
• Patterns & Practices: Prism Contrib (CodePlex)
• Editing the Appearance of Actors, Scenes, etc… (Ben Anderson)
• WPF From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

 

Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.0 vs. CodeRush/Refactor! — Smack Down Results (Derik Whittaker)

 

.NET

• .NET Is Crap? (Chris Cavanagh)
• Entity Framework Q&A – Lazy Loading, ObjectContext, and LINQ (John Papa)
• Collection Initializer Expressions (Paul Vick)

 

Web Development

• Book: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls (Joe Stagner)
• MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1 (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET Tips: What to Gather to Troubleshoot – Part 2 – High Memory (Tom)
• Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (Only $16 on Amazon for a Short Time) (Scott Guthrie) – That’s only $1 for every 100 pages. I ordered my copy. I’ll be putting my copy of Pro ASP.NET 2.0 book up on Bookmooch if anyone is interested.   Link of the Day
• Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web (K. Scott Allen)
• How the Flickr API Now Handles Video (Raymond Yee)
• ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer (Tess Ferrandez)

 

Design/Methodology

• Domain-Driven Design: Reading Toward Deeper Insight (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Behind Live Mesh: Live Desktop Architecture (Alex Himel)
• Protected Semantics, Part Five: More on Immutability (Eric Lippert)
• Good Code Is… (Casey Charlton)
• Understanding Model-View-Controller (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Development For the Masses (Eric Shupps)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Programming Job Interview Challenge #2 (Shahar Yair)
• Presdo: Twitter For Your Calendar? (Bob Walsh)
• Live Mesh Synch: How to Check Sync Progress to the Cloud (Kip Kniskern)
• MacBook Pro, iWork, Expression Studio 2 and Other Rumblings… (David Hayden)
• Subversion as a Deployment Tool (Sijin Joseph)
• Yes, You Too Can Be a Metrosexual Developer! An Interview with Justice Gray (Mike Duncan)
• How to Create SMART Tasks (Mike Gunderloy)
• Video: James Whittaker on Software Testing (Brian Keller)
• Spolsky’s Paradox (J. Kealy)
• I Updated My Resources Lists (Marc)
• Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader (Alex Chitu)
• Centralizing Your WCF Configuration with Neuron ESB (David Pallmann)

 

Zune

• Zune Spec Video (Steve Clayton)
• Zune Multiplayer Games in Action (Adrian Covert)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Links Today (2008-05-05) (Matt Hinze)
• Silverlight Cream for May 5, 2008 — #267 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight Resources (Mike Snow)
• The Morning Brew #87 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.05.06 (gOODiDEA)
• New and Notable 238 (Sam Gentile)
• Link Listing – May 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

 

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