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Daily Bits – February 12, 2008

SharePoint

Dev Tip: The SharePoint University of Reverse Engineering (Sahil Malik)
Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 RTM + User Guide Part 1 (Chris Johnson)
Announcing the Final Release of VSeWSS 1.1 (and the Upcoming v1.2) (Alex Malek)

SQL Server

Partitioning Enhancements in SQL Server 2008 (Erin Welker)

.NET

WMI Provider Extensions in .NET Framework 3.5 (Daniel Moth)
Exploring the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework – Part 2 (Brian Dawson)
C# 4, Part 4: My Manifesto and Wishlist (Jon Skeet)
NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Nightly Build Seamlessly Supports .NET 3.5 and a Host of Other Platforms (Jeffrey Palermo)
C# 3.0 Syntax Additions – Design Guidelines (Peter Ritchie)

Misc

How Do You Build Your Application? (Kyle Baley)
What’s Important at Code Camp? (Scott Dorman)

WPF

How to Disconnect UI and Data in WPF (Tamir Khason)

Silverlight

Video.Show Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 10, 2008 and Link Listing – February 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
4 Links Today (2008-02-11) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-02-12 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #30 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #141 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

SQL Server Query Performance Tuning Distilled, Second Edition: Books: Sajal Dam

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Daily Bits – February 1, 2008

HOT NEWS

Microsoft Wants to Purchase Yahoo (Offers $44.6 Billion) (BBC News)

Events

Whew, Been Busy!!! (Mitch Ruebush)
First Half 2008 Conference Speaking Schedule (Scott Hanselman)
MIX08 (Scott Guthrie)

Misc

Invoking a WCF Service From a CLR Trigger (Sam Shiles)
30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work (Leo Babauta)
Test Data Builders: An Alternative to the Object Mother Pattern (Nat Pryce)
101 Design Patters & Tips for Developers (SourceMaking)
Holy Halftones! Microsoft Launches Comic Featuring Superhero Techies (Paul McDougall)

Career

Wanted: Rock Star Developer for Channel9/10 (Dan Fernandez)

.NET

Creating a Transparent Panel in .NET (Tobias Hertkorn)
Expression Tree Basics (Charlie Calvert)
WPF Application Quality Guide v0.1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
Quiz – C# and .NET Secrets (Rainer Stropek)

Web Development

Web Client 2.0 Closer Than You Think (Glenn Brock)
Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
MVC with Entity Framework… a Twist on Brad Abrams’ Example (Julie Lerman)
Writing a Book: Service-Based Enterprise AJAX on the Microsoft Platform (Daniel Larson)
Microsoft Ajax Library Book Published (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight: Overview (via Sam Buchanan)

PowerShell

Advanced PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

SharePoint

Installing MOSS From Scratch (Martin Hinshelwood)
The Legend of the Single, Multi-Terabyte, Replicating SharePoint Database (Jose Barreto)
MOSS Reporting Services Native Mode Options for Adding Reports to SharePoint Sites (Kathy Hughes)
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (CodePlex)

Visual Studio

Best VS Fonts/Colors EVER (Ryan Lanciaux)
Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility Known Issues Document Has Been Updated (Quan To)

Other Link Blogs

New and Notable 221 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 31, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 31, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
2 Links Today (2008-01-31) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-02-01 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #23 (Chris Alcock)
Concentrated Codesqueeze: January 2008 (Max Pool)

Book of the Day

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained: Books: Cristian Darie,Bogdan Brinzarea

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Daily Bits – January 29, 2008

Community

New Software Architect’s User Group in Philly Area (Andrew Schwam)

WCF

Load Testing Windows Communication Foundation Applications (Jeff Beehler)
Detect Client IP in WCF 3.5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Getting at the Detials (Jacob Proffitt)

.NET

C# Delegates (BlackWasp)
Book Review: C# 3.0 Cookbook [O’Reilly] (Peter Bromberg)

Career

Prefer Design Skills (Martin Fowler)
Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted! (Brad Abrams)

Web Development

A Study of Ajax Performance Issues (Dion Almaer)
ASP.NET MVC Link Collection (Simone Chiaretta)
VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released (Scott Guthrie)

WPF

Binding EF Data to the (Free) Xceed WPF Data Grid (Julie Lerman)
.NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka and Anthony Handley on WPF (MS Download)

Misc

Source Control and Continuous Integration on the Cheap (Rob Conery)
Lightweight Performance Testing with PowerShell (PowerShell Team)
What Are Hot Buttons for Microsoft on the Programming-Language Futures Front? (Mary Jo Foley)
Finally Understanding COM After Changing a Light Bulb (Jeff Moser)
I’ve Got the Iteration #1 Blues (Jeremy D. Miller)

Other Link Blogs

Best of January 2008 (Smashing Magazine)
Monday (01-28-08) edition of the d’bug link farm (Brian Reindel)
New and Notable 220 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: January 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
6 Links Today (2008-01-28) (Matt Hinze)
Links Listing – January 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
links for 2008-01-29 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #20 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

C# 3.0 Cookbook: Books: Jay Hilyard,Stephen Teilhet

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