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Daily Bits – January 31, 2008

PowerShell

Free eBook Offer For Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell (Dave Glover)
Online PowerShell Training (Jeffrey Snover)
Tab Completion (Jeffrey Snover)

Misc

Want Some WPF Improvements/Features? Tell Us. (Lester)
No, Be a Jerk (Justin Gehtland)
Confessions of a Software Developer* (Aaron Lerch)
Neudesic Announces NuCon’08 Events (Sam Gentile) – I’ll be attending the NY event.
Three Rules For Database Work (K. Scott Allen)
The Weekly Source Code 14 – Fluent Interface Edition (Scott Hanselman)

.NET

C# Generics Annoyance (Chris Brandsma)
Why Threading Is Hard (Mike Stall)
Learning .NET Debugging (Tess Ferrandez)
HealthVault Device Driver Development Kit Available on MSDN (HealthVault Device Team)

SharePoint

Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (Part 1 of 2) (Neil Hodgkinson)
SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Import Your CSS for SharePoint Themes (Heather Solomon)
SharePoint Search Bench v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft SharePoint Will “Steamroll” Web 2.0 Market, Plus Eight More Predictions From Forrester (Jon Brodkin)

Web Development

CruiseControl, VS2008 and ASP.NET MVC (Kyle Baley)
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets (Omar AL Zabir)
Troubleshooting Expired ASP.NET Session State and Your Options (Scott Hanselman)
New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix (Dan Fernandez)

Visual Studio

StickyNotes Available for Visual Studio 2008 on the New MSDN Code Gallery (VSX Team)
Known Issues for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 (VSX Team)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (1/30/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – January 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #22 (Chris Alcock)
1 Link Today (2008-01-30) (Matt Hinze)
links for 2008-01-31 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides): Books: Roger Wolter

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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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Daily Bits – January 21, 2008

My T60 is having cooling issues this morning… keeps shutting down on me. I hope I get a loaner pretty soon. Some formatting and grouping added for your reading pleasure.

Events and Presenting

Philly Code Camp Sample Code (LINQ) (Milo Negovan)
The Sesame Street Presentation Rule (Jeff Atwood)
What Do I Do: Top sites, MIX08, and PDC08 (Mike Swanson)

.NET Framework

WCF – Handling Generic Messages (Glav)
EntitySpaces 2008 Preview (The EntitySpaces Team)
Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 v1.2.1 (CodePlex)
.NET Framework 3.0 SP1 & 2.0 SP1 in Vista SP1 RTM? (Aaron Ruckman)

Web

ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox (with Script#) (Muhammad Mosa)

Misc

Designing an Entity Data Model (John Papa)
How To: Use Reflection to Test Your Code (Andy Davies)
Survey For My Blog Subscribers (Daniel Moth – his survey, not mine 🙂 )
NLINQ Release Candidate 2 (CodePlex)
How to Writer a Provider Model (Keyvan Nayyeri)

SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 T-SQL – Table-Valued Parameters (Simon Sabin)

Visual Studio

HowTo: Set Up Your Project for Windows Workflow (C# Style) (Chris LastNameUnknown)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: January 20, 2007 (2008 maybe? doh!) (Jason Haley)
Links (1/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Link Listing – January 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
links for 2008-01-21 (Sam Buchanan)
Double Shot #127 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #14 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Programming WCF Services (Programming): Books: Juval Lowy

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