Dew Drop – August 20, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ImmutableStack in F#, Part 2 (Jared Parsons)
• NAnt and Setup Projects (*.vdproj) (Kevin Hurwitz)
• Smarter Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
• Probably the Most Powerful LINQ Operator: SelectMany (Bart de Smet)
• Clone Detective for Visual Studio – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex) – Looks like this could be useful for refactoring when doing Brownfield development.
• Pluralsight’s WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series (Aaron Skonnard)
• C# Inline Methods and Optimization (Ade Miller)
• What’s in NetFX 3.5 SP1? (Kevin Frie)
• Microsoft StyleCop – Release v4.3 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Thank You, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Davy Brion) – Awesome!

 

Design / Methodology

• Design Patterns – Part 1 (Granville Barnett)
• What First – CI or Unit Testing? (Tim Barcz) – Davy Brion responds.
• Priority Filter (Corey Ladas)
• Pretty Simple Software (Tobin Harris)
• Tasty Beverages (Eric Lippert)
• On Good Design and Defining Success and DDD, Repositories and ORMs (Jimmy Bogard)
• Two-Phase Initialization (Sasha Goldshtein)
• I’m Thinking of Using Agile Software Development – But Should I Use Lean Software Development Instead? (Martin Fowler)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners (Mike Snow)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 3 (Christopher Bennage)
• Teitlebaum’s WPF Graphic Demos, Part 1 (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex! (William Cornwill)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #34 – Dispose of Your DataContext (or Don’t) (Stephen Walther)
• Logging with ASP.NET MVC Action Filters (Timothy Khouri)
• Quick Tip: Dynamically Add an Icon for External Links (Karl Swedberg)
• Creating a Dynamic, Data-Driven User Interface (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)

 

Database

• SSIS: Validating Your Package to See If It Will Execute (Jamie Thomson)
• Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

 

Events / Community

• Kaizenconf – Calm Down People (Scott C. Reynolds)

 

Self-Help for Developers

• Rainy Day Coding (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Importance of a Personal Development Plan (Scott Nichols) – Link of the Day

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month and Office 14: Alpha Testing to Begin Before Year-End (Sumeeth Evans)
• The Blue Monster Book Club Continues (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 19, 2008 – [Final Cut] and Innovation Notes: August 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #94 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 — #351 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for August 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for August 20, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• The Morning Brew #162 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day