Dew Drop – June 7, 2008

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Prism and Caliburn’s Future (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Encoder SDK Now Available (Pete Brown)
• Popup Control and Beta 2 Tutorials Available Now in PDF (Jesse Liberty)
• Browser Resize – How to Capture the Size of Your Browser When It Is Resized and Dynamically Loading and Display Images in Beta 2 and What’s New with Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (Mike Snow)
• What’s Changed in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? and Upgrading Your Silverlight 2 Projects to Beta 2 and Using ADO.NET Data Services in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Sites and Debugging ADO.NET Data Services… with Fiddler 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available Plus Refreshed Screencasts (Mike Taulty)
• WPF GlassEffect for Non-Vista OS (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released, Now MSN Toolbar Works (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM Integrated DB2 Into Visual Studio and Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost (David Starr)
• Using the Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools v1.0.0.0 (Andrew Whitechapel)
• LINQ DataContext Logging with the Logging Application Block (Ade Miller)
• Functional C# Revisited – Into the Great Void (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VSX Developer Center Update – June 2008 (VSX Team)
• uCertify M70-533: Upgrade MCSD.NET Skills to MCPD Enterprise Developer Using C# Exam Preparation Kit (Muhammad M. Mosa Soliman)
• Give Way to the yield Keyword (Shay Friedman)
• Higher Order Function Demo (Justin Etheredge)

 

Web Development

• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform (Nick Berardi)
• 5 Developer Add-Ons for Firefox 3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• How to Create a Package for Graffiti (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Design / Methodology

• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N (Sam Gentile)
• Creating a Culture of Quality (John Teague)

 

SharePoint

• Multiple RSS Aggregator Web Part Example (Zlatan Dzinic)
• SharePoint Quick Surveys 1.0.1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Miscellaneous

• Opera 9.5 Web Browser Gets a New Look (Brad Linder)
• 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy (Celine Roque)
• How to Be Jeff Atwood (Leon Bambrick)
• Microsoft Videos – Official News, Demos, How-To’s and More (Chris)
• Run Xbox Media Center From a USB Drive (Kevin Purdy)
• Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test (Josh Poley)
• Cube Desktop (Mike Taulty)
• The Greatest Invention in Computer Science (Jeff Atwood)

 

Events / Community

• Followup to Testing with Mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• TechEd 2008 Notes: The Gentle Art of Pair Programming (Joe White)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Link Listing – June 5, 2008 and Link Listing – June 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2008 and Interesting Finds: June 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 6, 2008 #2 (Emil Stoychev)
• Everyman Links for June 5, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Links Today (2008-06-06) (Matt Hinze)
• Daily Find #76 (Tim Boland)
• Cool Links for Programmers (Shahar Abramovich)
• LINKBLOG for June 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2008 — #292 (Dave Campbell)

 

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