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Daily Bits – January 11, 2008

Sharing Types Between the Client and Server in WCF

AutoMockingContainer and ASP.NET MVC: Round 1

Competition vs. Innovation at Microsoft

Cool Video of TeamSpec and TeamLook Now Available

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of

Best Type-Safe Session State Pattern. Evar. (via DotNetKicks)

Count the Interfaces…

SaphireSteel Releases New Ruby on Rails IDE Based on VS 2008 Shell

Is Rooting for Visual Basic Like Rooting for the Red Sox?

.NET Rocks! Podcast: Ken Levy on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)

Using Reflector to Search Through Code and Resolve .NET Issues (via Steve Pietrek)

Did You Know That Connection String Builders Will Parse Connection Strings, Not Just Create Them? (via Steve Pietrek)

Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 2

Developer Grades: Where Do You Fall In? (via dzone)

CodeMash Hanselman IIS Talk (via DotNetSlackers)

Web Development Toolbelt (via dzone)

.NET Framework Goes Multicore (via dzone)

Video “Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries” Posted

CodeMash 2007 Wrapup – What Are You Working On?

The Enduring Art of Computer Programming

 

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Daily Bits – January 10, 2008

Completely Free PDF .NET Library Written in C# (via DotNetKicks)

50 Great CS Books Recommended by BookPool (via dzone)

Advanced WCF Talk This Saturday at Philly Code Camp (I’ve got a circular link reference going with Sam)

Top 5 Greasemonkey Scripts to Pimp Your New Gmail 2.0

Enterprise Libary 4.0 Product Backlog Posted on CodePlex

Blogs are the New Resumes and Portfolios (via dzone)

Too Many Mocks?

BDD-Style Specification Reporting in CC.Net

Listen to Thirsty Developer and Have a Chance to Win a Custom Zune80

No Matter What They Tell You, It’s a People Problem

Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter Video Site Live

Microsoft’s Strangest Hits (and Misses)

 

Book of the Day

 

Daily Bits – January 9, 2008

Running a little late this morning. My Vista reboot following the installation of Windows Updates took over an hour. It just sat at the “Configuring Updates – 0%” screen with the hard drive cranking away. After all of that, the update for KB943302 failed for the third time.

Understanding the Common Type System in .NET (via DotNetSlackers)

Building Credibility: 11 Ways to Show You’re a Professional (via Jason Haley)

Windows Server 2008 is in Escrow! RTM Build Planned for January 16th.

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Microsoft Has All the Right Lego Pieces, They’re Just not Assembled… Yet (via WinBeta)

Getting Started with ADO.NET Data Services

The Weekly Source Code 12 – Back in Black Edition (ScottHa)

WPF Book Easter Egg

ReadBurner – Meme Tracker Based on Google Reader Shared Items (via DownloadSquad)

New Video on Using Themes in WPF (via WindowsClient.NET)

A Book About D

Introducing ‘Caliburn’: An MVC/MVP WPF Framework (via DotNetKicks)

If You Aren’t Having Fun, Then Don’t Do It (via Arjan’s World)

LINQ Grouping Techniques (via Steve Pietrek)

Happy 2nd Birthday DotNetKicks

PowerShell Scripts for Testing (v0.4 Alpha Released) (CodePlex)

51 Core Abilities of Successful Software

McDonald’s Boss: Video Games to Blame for Childhood Obesity (via Maximum PC)

 

Book of the Day