Category: Development

Daily Bits – January 4, 2008

7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic (via Jason Haley)

GUI Design Book Recommendations? (Some good discussions in the comments.)

Volta – Microsoft Live Labs (a little info on Volta here) (via DotNetSlackers)

Community Convergence XXXVIII (via Arjan’s World)

MS Live Labs Volta Final Thoughts (Jay’s not a fan)

Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website (via WinBeta)

Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition in the Works

Using VS 2008 to Create New ASP.NET 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Projects (ScottGu)

Self-Referencing Database Calls

Scott Guthrie’s Jan 4th Links (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, IIS7)

 

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Daily Bits – January 3, 2008

Rethrowing Exceptions and Preserving the Full Call Stack Trace (via DotNetSlackers)

The Bottom of the Cup (via Arjan’s World)

IronRuby vs. Ruby.NET?

Foundations of Programming – Part 6 – NHibernate

Does C# 3.0 Beat Dynamic Languages at Their Own Game? (via DotNetKicks)

C# vNext: Take 2

Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in LA, Feb. 27th

Reporting Code Analysis Defect Counts

SQL Server Virtual Event (via DotNetSlackers)

WPF-Based Music CD Ripper (via Christopher Steen)

Software + Services Overview (PDF or XPS download)

Extending Live Writer for Blog Posting

Foundations of Programming – PDF Download

MS Quiet on ‘Ultimate’ Xbox 360 (via WinBeta)

FILESTREAM Data in SQL Server 2008

 

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Daily Bits – January 2, 2008

Happy New Year to all. I hope your 2008 is a great one!

MSBuildContrib Updates (via Christopher Steen)

Zotero – The Next-Generation Research Tool (Firefox plugin) (via Sam Buchanan)

303 Insanely Interesting Links From 2007 (via Trumpi)

Moving ASP.NET MVC Posts to ASP Alliance (via DotNetSlackers)

ADO.NET Data Services with ASP.NET AJAX Support (video)

Three Unexpected Weapons in the Battle Against “Blogger’s Block” (via Trumpi)

In C#, When to use String vs. string (via DotNetSlackers)

Using Managed Code to Determine What .NET Framework Versions and Service Packs Are Installed (via Mike Gunderloy’s final installment of The Daily Grind)

SQL Server – Remove Duplicate Characters from a String (via DotNetSlackers)

Software Development Predictions for 2008

Best of Codesqueeze 2007

Microsoft to Build an ‘Emacs.Net’ Text Editor (via WinBeta)

Spell Checker Update 2.1 – A Few Bug Fixes and a Couple of New Features

Questions Every .NET Developer Should Be Able to Answer

Tips for Conference Bloggers (via Cool Tools)

Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 1

Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 6: Joins (via DotNetSlackers)

Some Free MSPress eBook Chapters (via DotNetKicks)

Ensure the Quality of the Code That Will Be Developed This Year

Just Added Mole to My .NET Toolbox

 

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