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Daily Bits – February 5, 2008

Career

Word of Mouth Career Advice (Steve Clayton)

Misc

Battle of the Technorati Challenged (Russell Ball)
The Quest For Perfect Proportions in Your Software (Max Pool)
Official: Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing – Headed Your Way… in March (Thomas Ricker)
Windows Server 2008 Has RTM’d (Bob Fox)
Windows Media Services for Windows Server 2008 (MS Downloads)
Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development (Ian Cooper)
SharePoint Search Ranking Rules and Running It Programatically (Sahil Malik)
TFS Sticky Buddy CodePlex Project (Martin Hinshelwood)

.NET

Shell Style Drag and Drop in .NET (WPF and WinForms) (Adam Root)
Fluency in Fluent Interfaces (Matthew Podwysocki)
LightSpeed 1.2 Released (John-Daniel Trask)
Exploring the Performance of the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Brian Dawson)
Why I Changed My Mind About Extension Methods (James Newton-King)
Google Chart C# API (Steven Hildreth)
Zip/Unzip Folders and Files with C# (Peter Bromberg)
The Weekly Source Code 15 – Tiny Managed Operating System Edition (Scott Hanselman)
ORMs… Their Real Benefit (Jay Kimble)
Ruby.NET Is Dead (Antonio Cangiano)
LINQ to SQL DataContext Lifetime Management (Rick Strahl)

WPF

Connecting to the Wii Control with WPF (Rick Barraza)

Database

Get Your Database Under Version Control (Jeff Atwood)
Close Those Loopholes: Stress-Test Those Stored Procedures (Alex Kuznetsov)

Visual Studio

VS 2005 AddIns: NAntAddin and NUnitAddin
Breaking on Exceptions Reveals the Ugly Truth of Your Application (Derik Whittaker)

Events and Community

Presenting Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) at IASA Tampa Meeting in February (David Hayden)
Thinking Digital Conference (Steve Clayton)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 2, 2008, Link Listing – February 3, 2008 and Link Listing – February 4, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LinkList 03022008 – Dynamic Programming Design Patterns, Erlang/C# AMQP Client, AOP (Nauman Leghari)
LINKBLOG for February 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #25 (Chris Alcock)
links for 2008-02-05 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Books: Rebecca M. Riordan

Technorati: daily links, microsoft, programming, .net, database, books

Daily Bits – February 2, 2008

Misc

Design Patterns Quick Reference II – The Poster Chronicles (Jason McDonald)
New AgileThinkers Blog – It Is About the People, More Than the Pieces (Clarke Ching)
Lang.net Wrap-Up (John Lam)
You Suck at Photoshop 5 (Donnie Hoyle)
Developers Are Not Hot-Swappable (Simon Munro)
TDD Proven Effective! Or Is It? (Jacob Proffitt)
Reports: Vista SP1 Gold Bits on Track For Next Week (Mary Jo Foley) – Looks like Monday, 02/04.
Pair Programming with Descartes (Billy McCafferty)

WPF

A Versatile WPF TreeView Control Finding an Ancestor of a WPF Dependency Object (Philipp Sumi)

Web Development

Storing LINQ Objects in SQL-Based Session State (Troy Goode)
Gotchas and Learnings From Refactoring to Use ASP.NET AJAX (Jeff Putz)
What Controls Do You Want in Silverlight v2? (Kathy Kam)
Firefox, WPF and XBAP and MS Deploy – New IIS Web Deployment Tool (Scott Hanselman)
SubSonic: 2.1 Beta Is Up (Rob Conery)
Free Training: New Microsoft Expression Virtual Labs (Robert Shelton)

.NET

Enterprise Library 4: Now With More Peace, Love and Rock n’ Roll (Scott Densmore)
A Sorted Affair: History of the C# Sort (JD Conley)
Unity + EntLib = ? (Tom Hollander)
When string.ToLower() is Evil (Vadym Stetsiak) – I think that this is WHY it is evil.
Custom Username and Password Authentication in WCF 3.5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Visual Studio

ReSharper 4 in 2 Weeks (and Random Geekiness) (Jeremy D. Miller)
Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 (Brennan Stehling)

SharePoint

Silverlight Display Web Part and Why You Should Always Do Least Priveleged Testing (Eric Shupps)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – January 31, 2008 and Link Listing – February 1, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 1, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 2, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 1, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-02-02 (Sam Buchanan)
3 Links Today (2008-02-02) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day (Superbowl Weekend Edition)

Phil Simms on Passing: Fundamentals of Throwing the Football: Books: Phil Simms

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, wpf, wcf, silverlight, microsoft, .net, books

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

Technorati: daily links, programming, microsoft, yahoo, ajax, events, wcf, wpf, silverlight

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