Daily Bits – December 17, 2007

ExtJs Extender Controls (for ASP.NET AJAX) (via DotNetKicks)

Generating Compiler Warnings For Calls to Obsolete Methods (via Arjan’s World)

Common Project Settings For Your Visual Studio Solution (via Arjan’s World)

Return vs. Finally (2)

HTML v5 and XHTML v2 (via Slashdot)

Omer’s Code Snippet Repository Released (via Trumpi)

Type Member Lookup By Prefix (via Jason Haley)

Simple Way to Pack Your Code Into a Single EXE (via Jason Haley)

A First Look at ASP.NET Extensions 3.5 – History Points

Did You Know? – How to Share Code Snippets with Your Team (via Steve Pietrek)

WCF Clients and COM Interop

 

Book of the Day: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (a classic)

 

Daily Bits – December 15, 2007

Windows Home Server Hacks (via We Got Served)

patterns & practices: Web Service Software Factory – Release: WCF Security Guidance Package

PowerShell Debug Visualizer – Release

New ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support (ScottGu)

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions: All About Dynamic Data

Microsoft Team System – Open Source Alternatives

Entity Data Model Designer Video – CTP 2

Announcing Partner Huddle for Professional Developers (via Angela Binkowski)

Spell Checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for VS 2005 and 2008 (via DotNetKicks)

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Now Available

SystemIcons.Shield

ClassTester, or “How to Exercise Your Assembly”

 

Book of the Day: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization

 

Daily Bits – December 13, 2007

Initial Volta Thoughts

Using LINQ to Query Command Line Arguments

Microsoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer (via DotNetKicks)

Best C# Blogs (via DotNetKicks)

Guidance Explorer is Now on MSDN (via WinBeta)

Revving up SCSF and WCSF for VS2008

Sorting for Humans – Natural Sort Order

Debug Visualizer for SubSonic Collections (via DotNetKicks)

Rhino Mocks Quick Reference (via Mike Gunderloy)

Paint.NET 3.20 Final Available (via WinBeta)

MSBuild Sidekick 2.0 Beta Available (via WinBeta)

XNA Game Studio 2.0 Released

TFS2008 with WSS 3.0 SP1 & MOSS 2007 SP1?

Yahoo! Launches New WordPress Plugin

.NET Syntax Highlighter with Support for ~460 Syntaxes

 

Book of the Day: The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky