My Xbox 360 NXE Avatar:
I didn’t see a ‘Soul Patch’ in the facial hair section… gotta log an enhancement request on MS Connect.
Category: game
Dew Drop – July 23, 2008
.NET / Visual Studio
- LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
- Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
- T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
- Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
- Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
- 5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
- C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
- What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)
Events / Community
- Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
- CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
- Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
- Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
- Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
- Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
- How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)
Silverlight / WPF
- Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
- Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
- Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
- Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)
SharePoint
- Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
- LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
- SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)
Web Development
- AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
- Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
- ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
- My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
- A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)
Miscellaneous
- Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
- The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
- Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
- Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
- Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
- .NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
- BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
- Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
- Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
- Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)
SQL Server
- Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)
Link-O-Rama
- Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
- Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
- Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
- Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
- WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
- Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
- The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer): Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson: Books
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Dew Drop – July 22, 2008
Web Development
- Web Development as Tag Soup (Jeff Atwood)
- DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal – New and Improved (Brad Abrams)
- The Weekly Source Code 30 – Spark and NHaml – Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines (Scott Hanselman)
- ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
- ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 – Return a View Without Creating a Controller Action (Stephen Walther)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The Known Type Provider (Davy Brion)
- What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB (Kathleen Dollard)
- Running Your Build/Source Code From a RAM Disk (Eric Hexter)
- Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
- NHibernate.LINQ with ADO.NET Data Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
- Evolution of C# Delegate Syntax From .NET 1.x to 3.5 (Bart Czernicki)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Patch Management Approaches Using Centralized SCM and How a Blocking Remote Call Can Take Down an Application (Oren Eini)
- No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net (Ade Miller)
- Mocking Dilemma, Solved! (Davy Brion)
- The Code Reuse Myth (Brian Reindel)
- Leveraging Unit Tests as Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors (Schalk Neethling)
- The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I Want to Know What You Mean. What You Meant. What You Will Mean. Every Time. (Anne Botha)
Silverlight
- Check Out Our New Learn Page! (Jesse Liberty)
- Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon (Dan Fernandez)
- Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Master Series (Part 1 – .NET/C#) and (Part 2 – WCF) (Bart Czernicki)
Events / Community / Blogging
- Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple (Sam Gentile)
- Events This Week – July 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Has Failed You (Robert Scoble)
- PEST (James Whittaker)
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Declarative Data Validation Presentation – Charlotte Developers Guild (Karl Shifflett)
- Upcoming Conferences with Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Lawrence)
- WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing WordPress (Amit Agarwal)
Miscellaneous
- Review: The Annoted Turing by Charles Petzold (Michael C. Neel)
- Live Mesh Updated (Sarah Perez)
- Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc. (Sunshine)
- Pre-Beta Mac Client for Live Mesh – Review Only (Chris)
- What I Look For in an Interview Candidate (Pete Brown)
- How to Become a Good Developer? (Gunnar Peipman) – Link of the Day
Link-O-Rama
- Link Listing – July 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
- New and Notable 255 (Sam Gentile)
- Visual Studio Links #55 (Darren Stokes)
- Weekly Links #10 (Grant Palin)
- Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 — #330 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 – 2 — #331 (Dave Campbell)
- Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170 (Harry Pierson)
- Bookmarking the Web – w29/2008 (Erwin)
- The Morning Brew #141 (Chris Alcock)
Book of the Day
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 MVC: Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack: Books
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