Tag: oslo

.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing XML files in C# Using Microsoft’s Diff and Patch Tool (Tom Hearn)
• Windows Ribbon: Samples (MS Downloads)
• Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now (Chris Sells)
• How to Download, Install, Walkthrough Visual Studio 2010 Team System, Team Foundation Server Betas (Bruce Kyle)
• My favourite underused keyword in C# is… and My new favourite keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio (Josh Twist)
• What is a VSIX? (Quan To)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Azure Samples (Steve Clayton)
• New version of Power Threading Library posted today! and Announcing Wintellect’s Power Live Framework Library (Jeffrey Richter)
• Another clever pattern for dealing with EF Change Tracking across processes (Julie Lerman)
• May Oslo SDK Available – Now with Quadrant (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Set Based Operations in Ado.net Data Services Part II (Phani Raj)
• Visual Studio 2010 – How It Should Have Looked (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How TDD and Pairing Increase Production (James Shore) – Link of the Day
• NUnit’s Assert.That (Peter Seale)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – You’re Doing it Wrong! (Chris Missal)
• The Zen of Inversion of Control (Jon Stonecash)
• Resume Driven Design (Michael Janke)
• The Role of Sketching in Software Development (Jared Bienz)
• Isn’t Kanban Just a Task-board? (Karl Scotland)
• Utils and Common is Dead! – Part 2 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Pair Programming: Refactoring (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community (John Sheehan)
• Top 5 jQuery Modal Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: Deleting Data (Scott Mitchell)
• GridView Confirmation Box Using JQuery BlockUI (Azam)
• ASP.NET Web Design Software (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET 4.0 SEO features: Response.RedirectPermanent() (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 (WebDevTools Team)

Silverlight / WPF

• Drag and Drop Files in WPF (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere! (Brad Abrams)
• WPF NotifyIcon control! (Coding4Fun)
• DataSet and Silverlight (Chris Robinson)
• Silverlight and WPF Controls (Jared Bienz)
• ViewModels and CheckListBoxes (Josh Twist)
• Resharper template for DependencyProperty in silverlight (Roy Osherove)
• WPF 4.0 Data Binding Change (great feature) (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: VPlay from Microsoft Research (MS Research)
• New Web Test Debugging Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Brian Keller)
• Maoni Stephens and Andrew Pardoe: CLR 4 Garbage Collector – Inside Background GC and Esurance: Developing for the Mobile Web and CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling API Enhancements (Charles Torre)
• Episode 136: Past Present and Future of MDA with David Frankel (SE-Radio Team)
• The GeekDads Episode 45: Geek of the Week (Ken Denmead)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #113: Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
• Integrating 3D into Expression Blend with ZAM 3D Tutorial (Adam Kinney)
• Modularity in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• VPlay: Video Performance in surface computing (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• NEW Reduced prices for Scott Bellware’s TDD and Web Testing Workshops, June 2nd & 3rd (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• DC ALT.NET – Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 – Pair Programming with Jonathan Cogley and CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 – Dissecting DevEvents.com: A Look at a Real World .NET MVC Implementation (Christopher Steen)
• Sign up Now for XAMLFest WPF, Silverlight Training Event Online Next Week (Bruce Kyle)
• Core Coding Experience Live Meeting the Visual Studio Team (Charles Sterling)
• Agilepalooza! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• SharePoint Community Comes to Springfield (Dave Bost)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Today (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• When a decimal isn’t a decimal – beware (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server does support regular expressions in check constraints, triggers are not always needed and Is an index seek always better or faster than an index scan? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tip – UNION vs. UNION ALL (Michael Ceranski)
• Bulk Insert into SQL Server using SqlBulkCopy (Malcolm Sheridan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces New Zune HD and Microsoft’s Expression Blend & Design Team Recommends "Rooler" Free Screen Measurement Tool (Blake Handler)
• Adobe previews Acrobat.com Presentations (Chris)
• How to create a planned release – #037 (Sara Ford)
• Create a Twitter Account for Your Home Server with New Add-in @WHSTweet (Sarah Perez)
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter (Scott Hanselman)
• Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls (Vladimir Rovinsky)
• Server Fault Public Beta Launches (Jeff Atwood)
• Gates is 2nd Most Creative Person in Business (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft: Zune HD is real (Paul Thurrott)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 6: Tape Thyself (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon? (MG Siegler)
• Whatever happened to Live Clipboard? (Jamie Thomson)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #355 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 26th May, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• The Technology Post for May 26th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Everyman Links for May 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)

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