Dew Drop – March 11, 2008

 

Silverlight/WPF

• We Need to Learn From Flash and Silverlight & WPF, What It Means to Me (Jose Fajardo)
• Live Messenger Done With Silverlight 2.0 – The Beginning and Login Screen Layout (Jose Fajardo)
• Silverlight 2.0 Regular Expression Evaluator and BlogEngine.NET Extension For Embedding a Silverlight Plugin (Sean)
• Silverlight 2 – 2D Physics Revisited and XAML Loading Animation (Chris Cavanagh)
• Calling JavaScript Functions From Silverlight 2 (Tim Heuer)
• Webcast: Building WPF Applications in VS2008 and Expression Blend (Marc)
• Tip of the Day: Routed Events (Jesse Liberty)
• A Missing Items/Solutions – Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Jay Kimble)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Hints and Workaround: Installing Windows SDK after VS2008 breaks WPF Intellisense (XAMLdev)
• Review: Blendables Layout Mix (Rudi Grobler)

 

.NET

• Enforcing Single Instance With Argument Passing (Sean)
• Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently? (Tim Sneath)
• The Artist That Used to Be Known as Astoria and DataDeveloper.NET – A Resource For Developers Interested in Data Access (Julie Lerman)
• Fitting LINQ to SQL Into a Real-World Data Layer (Justin Etheredge)
• CSLA .NET 3.5 Code Reduction With Child Objects (Rocky Lhotka)

 

Career

• 10 Ways to Keep Employees Happy (IT Employees) (Derik Whittaker)
• Creating a Great Workplace For Developers (Sarat Pediredla)
• Interviewing the Employer (Andy)

 

Blogging

• Blog Resources For English Language and Blog Writing (Lorelle VanFossen)

 

Visual Studio

• Professional Visual Studio Extensibility – Finally Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MOSS2007 Testing Using Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Liam Cleary)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft MVC and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
• ASP.NET MVC in CodePlex and Extensible Unit Testing (Brad Abrams)

 

Events/Community

• S3 Browser For Live Writer – Our First CodePlex Release (TheCodeTrip)
• Speaking Dates and Schedule For Spring and Launch Into 2008… A Microsoft Geek’s Timeline (Sam Gentile)
• Talks You Won’t See at the Local Code Camp (K. Scott Allen)

 

Misc

• Tell Me… What Do You Want For WCF Adapter Documentation? (Mike McKeown)
• The Role of Architects and Architecture (David Starr)
• 10 Ways to Improve Your Code (John K. Waters)
• Binary vs. Source Compatibility (Mike Stall)
• Inside Vista Sidebar (Lionel Laske)

 

Link Collections

• New and Notable 224 (Sam Gentile)
• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #9 – March 4, 2008 (Robert McIlree)
• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Our Daily Link (2008-03-10) (Trevor Green)
• LINKBLOG for March 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Finds of the Week, March 9, 2008 (Chinh Do)
• The Morning Brew #50 (Chris Alcock)

 

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