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Daily Bits – February 18, 2008

Silverlight

Is Scoble Talking About Silverlight 2.0? (Frank La Vigne)
Livestation Launches Beta of TV Streaming Service (Brad Linder)

Misc

Knowing When to Ask For Help – Microsoft SharedView (Scott Hanselman)
Rhino Mocks 3.4 Released (Oren Eini)
Sound of One Man Testing (Derik Whittaker)
Eight Weeks of PowerShell (John Robbins)
Eliminating Obscure Tests (Jim Bogard)
Invoking PowerShell Scripts From MSBuild (Bart De Smet)
Import CSV File into SQL Server Using Bulk Insert (Pinalkumar Dave)
Microsoft Releases Unity, an IoC Library (Chris Brandsma)
Getting Data into Second Life Using .NET (Chris Hart)

Visual Studio

File Bound Generator (Gert Drapers)

Community

SQLSaturday Presentation Recap: Data Access Tips and Techniques – Tampa, FL (David Hayden)

.NET

Erik Meijer on C# 3.0 and LINQ (Erik Meijer)
Singleton Collection in VB.NET (Jason Witty)
LINQ and Lambdas and Sprocs… Oh My! (Dan Wahlin)
Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 5 (Ian Cooper)
Exploring GDI+: Using the Brush (Amr Elsehemy)
ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance (Neeraj Saluja)

WPF

WPF TextBox Hogging Memory? (Frank La Vigne)
New in WPF 3.5: 3. Enhanced Debugging Features (Josh Twist)

Other Link Blogs

Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET (Scott Guthrie)
Interesting Finds: February 17, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 17, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (2/17/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 29 (Rhonda Tipton)
The Morning Brew #34 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #146 (Mike Gunderloy)
Link Listing – February 17, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
3 Links Today (2008-02-17) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Inside Microsoft� SQL Server(TM) 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization: Books: Kalen Delaney,Sunil Agarwal,Craig Freedman,Ron Talmage,Adam Machanic

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Daily Bits – February 16, 2008

Community

The Code Trip Schedule Announced (Tim Heuer)
Virtual Usergroups (Jeff Schoolcraft)

Web Development

The Code Project Gets Silverlight Support (Brad Abrams)
ADO.NET Data Services + PopFly (Julie Lerman)

.NET

Writing Better Code – Keepin’ It Cohesive (Matthew Cochran)
Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (Jeff Moser)
Human LINQ (Jon Skeet)
File System Search via LINQ to Objects (Jaycent Drysdale)
A C# Central Logging Mechanism Using the Observer and Singleton Patterns (Muaddubby)
Fully Customizable Random Password Generator (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Career

Top 10 Reasons You Should Be Using LinkedIn (Dustin Brewer)
Freelancers Happy but Underpaid (Mike Gunderloy)
The Key Difference Between Developer and Architect Roles (Simon Brown)

Misc

Anti-Pacman (playZgame) – You control the ghosts and must catch Pacman before he eats all dots.
Mark February 27, 2008 on Your Calendars (Miguel Carrasco)
NHibernate Composite-Element Mapping (Matt Hinze)
Scott Guthrie and Somasegar Get Big Microsoft Promotions (Julia Lerman)
Do YOu Really Need a Distributed Architecture? (ACE Team)
The Custom MSBuild Task Cookbook (Bart De Smet)
500th Post (Jeremy D. Miller) – Congrats, Jeremy! Keep up the great work.

Visual Studio

ReSharper 4 EAP Is Out (Derik Whittaker)
PHP IDE – VS.Php for Visual Studio 2008 (the3factory)
Gosh! GAT/GAX Is Golden! (Tom Hollander)

Database

Apply Test-Driven Development to Your Database Projects (Gert Drapers)
Stored Procedure Performance Varies Between ADO.NET and Management Studio (Steven Smith)

SharePoint

SharePoint Advanced Content Videos and Whitepapers Now Available on TechNet! (Michal)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: February 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 15, 2008 and LINKBLOG for February 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – February 15, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
1 Link Today (2008-02-16) (Matt Hinze)
Bits for February 15, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer): Books: Ted Pattison,Daniel Larson

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Daily Bits – February 11, 2008

Web Development

Mashups Break the Microsoft Mold (John Musser)
Hello Secure World (Mike Walker)
Book Review: Core Internet Application Development with ASP.NET 2.0 (Steven Mandel)
Web.Config Basics Part 1 (Buddy Lindsey, Jr.)
Where the Heck Is My Focus? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET

Windows Performance Tools Kit Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
C# 3.0: Dictionary Parameters (Like in Ruby) (Joe White)
LINQ to JSON Beta (James Newton-King)
Capturing the Screen Contents in .NET 2.0 (Black Wasp)
RemotingLite – Release v1.1.0 (CodePlex)
Use Custom Generic Collections Rather Than Generic Lists in Public API (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Dynamically Generating Lambdas (Justin Etheredge)

Misc

Learn, But Not Necessarily Through Books (Abhijit Nadgouda)
Latest Opml File (Jason Haley)
Why I Love Being a Software Developer (Derik Whittaker)
TipJoy – A Better Tip Jar for Content (Michael Arrington)
Enso Launcher Now Free (Jason Clarke)
First Causes: Reversibility (Jeremy D. Miller)

Visual Studio

Announcing the XSLT Profiler AddIn for VS 2008 (Irinel Crivat)

WPF

Nice WPF Application (Rhonda Tipton)

SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 ‘Katmai’ Change Data Capture (CDC) (Derek Comingore)

Other Link Blogs

LINKBLOG for February 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: February 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links (2/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 28 (Rhonda Tipton)
The Morning Brew #29 (Chris Alcock)
links for 2008-02-11 (Sam Buchanan)

Book of the Day

Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Books: Joshua Kerievsky

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