Dew Drop – November 19, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Constructors and Inheritance – Why Is This Still So Painful? (Tom Hollander)
• Pontificating Virtual Parameterized Constructors in C# (Peter Ritchie)
• The Visual Studio Tech Roadmap — Starring Visual Studio 2010 (Rico Mariani)
• LINQ to SQL – Abstracting Your Database (Simon Sabin)
• HowTo: Task Management with Visual Studio (ToDos, Hacks & Co.) (Robert Muehsig)

 

Web Development

• eBook on ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 First Draft (Wallace B. McClure)
• New Line Quirk with HTML TextArea (Phil Haack)
• "Subsonic" for Services Found: Subsonic 3 + ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Jay Kimble)
• Filter Not Working in ADO.NET Data Services? (Marcelo)
• 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools (Jacob Gube)
• Creating Charts with the Google Chart API (Scott Mitchell)
• JScript IntelliSense FAQ (Jeff King)
• Upgrading Suteki Shop to the MVC Framework Beta (Mike Hadlow)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Fix Scrollbars for a Dynamic Layout in a ListView/ListBox (Marlon Grech)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF with EntLib 4.1 (Ade Miller)
• SharePoint, Silverlight and Virtual Earth (Jon Flanders)
• Silverlight clientaccesspolicy.xml Files for the Enterprise (Part 1 of 2) (Bart Czernicki)
• Embedding and Obfuscating Fonts (Corey Schuman)
• WPF and "Twiston": Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 and Part 6 and Part 7 (of 7 :-)) (Mike Taulty)
• Using the TreeView in Silverlight 2 (Martin Mihaylov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why NH Prof Isn’t Functional (Oren Eini)
• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2 (Lonnie Wall)
• NUnit STA Threads & Testing WPF (Sacha Barber)
• Agile and the .NET Community (David Yancey)
• Microsoft Blueprints – Release: CTP 2.1.1 (CodePlex)
• Dynamic Data: Kickin’ It Old School (Jonathan Carter)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – November 18th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALM Workshop This Friday in King of Prussia, PA (Lindsay Rutter)
• Seriously, Someone Start Working on Some Awesome Forums (Sara Chipps)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Discontinues Windows Live OneCare – Offers Lightweight Alternative for Free (Chris)
• Fashion Your Firefox into a Web-Working Machine (Darrell Etherington)
• WorldWide Telescope and WALL•E (Steve Clayton)
• Programmers Are Not Typists First (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Windows Live ID and OpenID (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Zune 3.1 (MS Downloads)
• PowerShell and Hashtable Oddities (Joel Bennett)
• Top 10 Things to Do When You Get the New Xbox Experience (Larry Hryb)
• The Xbox Live Marketplace: Now in Your Browser (Losh Lowensohn)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 18th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for November 18, 2008 — #431 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for November 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Clearing the Cache (Scott Blitstein)
• Creators Club Communiqué 09 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #226 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008-11-19 (Rob Relyea)

 

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