I will eventually get this posted to Studio Styles. Until then, here is a dark theme for Visual Studio that I created. The green and orange give it a Halo-ish feel. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Mini Me
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.
Dew Drop – July 29, 2008
.NET / Visual Studio
- Some Finalizer Pitfalls and Not All Bytes Are Exactly 8 Bits (Oren Eini)
- Finalizer vs. Application: A Race Condition From Hell and Guaranteed, Finalization Order Is Not (Sasha Goldshtein)
- CBR/CBZ Comics in C# (thund3rstruck)
- ReSharper 4.0 Lambda Refactoring (David Starr)
- Countdown to F# CTP (Chris Smith)
- There’s Usually an Easier Way (Mike Hadlow)
- Extended DSL Model Explorer – Release v1.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Migratory Compromises (Dave Laribee)
- The Poetry of Testing and Prevention v. Cure (Part 3) (James Whittaker)
- Three Qualities That Every Piece of Code Should Have (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Going Full Circle with TDD (Kyle Baley)
- .NET Rocks! – Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus (MS Downloads)
- Five Questions with Kyle Larsen (Michael Hunter)
- Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (David Starr)
- SOA Patterns Chapter 2 for Free Download (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
Silverlight / WPF
- WPF Futures Is Out! (Vladimir Milev)
- Using CSLA Light, Part 1 and Part 2 (Rocky Lhotka)
- Expression Blend Training Resources (Frank La Vigne)
- WPF Photo Print (.NET 3.5 SP1) (Chris Cavanagh)
- Behold! Silverlight Streaming! (John Holliday)
Web Development
- Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released (John O’Brien)
- How to Encrypt Query String Parameters in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
- ASP.NET MVC Tip #26 – Create a Lightweight Control View Engine (Stephen Walther)
Database
- Quick Tip: Generate Change Script for SQL Modifications (Ryan Lanciaux)
- SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Now Available (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- SQL Server Data Services (Aghy)
- SQL Server – Simple Example of Recursive CTE – Part 2 – MAXRECURSION – Prevent CTE Infinite Loop (Pinal Dave)
- SSDS Demo Code Now on CodePlex (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Magazine Articles for July (Arno Nel)
- Question to SharePoint Developers (Gunnar Peipman)
PowerShell
- DevHawk’s Slightly Useful PowerShell Configuration and Some PowerShell Scripts (Harry Pierson)
Events / Community
- Events This Week – July 28th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing the Summer of Arcade and Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 Releases This Week (Larry Hryb)
- .NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie on MIX and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery (MS Downloads)
- Cuil Shows Us How Not to Launch a Search Engine (Rafe Needleman)
- Nerd Test Results (Frank La Vigne) – My results are on my About Me page.
- Academics to Get a Glimpse of Microsoft’s Sphere (Ina Fried)
- Windows Live Wave 3: New Photo Feed Service – Windows Live FrameIt (Chris)
- IE8 and Reliability (Andy Zeigler)
- Tigerpress – A Free WordPress Theme (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
- Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2 (PhotoshopNews.com)
- The Mojave Experiment (Sunshine)
- Must-Have Software and Tools – July 2008 Edition (Tim Boland)
Link-O-Rama
- Weekly Links #11 (Grant Palin)
- Clearing a Blog Backlog (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Interesting Finds: 2008.07.29 (gOODiDEA)
- Silverlight News for July 29, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
- Everyman Links for July 28, 2008 (Dave Burke)
- Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2008 — #337 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #146 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #258 (Mike Gunderloy)
Book of the Day
Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: BooksTechnorati: .net development, sql server, sharepoint, powershell, resharper 4, wpf, silverlight, csla light, tdd, the mojave experiment, photoshop lightroom