Month: June 2008

Web Development

• AJAX-Style Uploader with Progress Indicator and Uploaded Files List (Joe Stagner)
• Basic ASP.NET SEO (Gunnar Peipman)
• To Cache, To Static, or To Session "When?" Is the Question (Jay Kimble)
• Two New Master Page Tutorials Published (Scott Mitchell)
• MVC Storefront Part 14: Ajax with Shawn Burke and SubSonic 3.0: IQueryable Update (Rob Conery)
• Anti-Spamability of .NET Engines (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• LINQ to SQL and the Web.Config ConnectionString Value (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• FxCop Now Ships with the Spell Checker Libraries and Reference Resolution Changes in Code Analysis and FxCop – Part 1 (David Kean)
• BackgroundWorker Closure and Overridable Task (Patrick Smacchia)
• .NET Memory Control : Use GCHandle to Pin Down the Objects (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Krypton – A Free WinForms Controls Toolkit and Traversing XML in .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 (Kim Hamilton)
• C# Empty Enumerator (Timm Webb)
• IronRuby at TechEd 2008 (John Lam)
• Build and Customize Your Own Isolated Shell (TechEd Chalk Talk) (Quan To)
• Bindable LINQ: Snapshot Enumerators (Paul Stovell)
• Zip Method Added to Dizzy (Justin Etheredge)
• Creating a Native Win32 Splash Screen (Bil Simser)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using the Shape Controls in Silverlight 2 Part 1 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight Cross Domain Services and a Helpful Tool and Telerik Drops Some Silverlight Control Goodies and Updated Silverlight Media Player Using Visual State Manager (Tim Heuer)
• Localizing a Silverlight Application and Support Configuration Specific Output Folders in a Silverlight Project (WebDevTools Team)
• Dynamic Languages in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• CSLA Light Object Serialization (Rocky Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Rating System for SharePoint Documents (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• SharePoint Best Practice (MS Press) (Chris O’Connor)
• Pomegranate (SharePoint) Exemplar Has Been Launched (Todd Snyder)
• Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 Site Structures Documentation. Version 0.2 (Maxime Bombardier)

Blogging / Social Networking

• Windows Live Writer Tweaks, Tips and Updates (Jared Goralnick)
• David Kean’s New Blog (David Kean)
• Resistance Is Futile, It’s FriendFeed FTW! (Sarah Perez)
• WordPress Podcast Wants Your Favorite WordPress Plugins (Lorelle VanFossen)

Miscellaneous

• Tonight I Hate the Web 🙁  (Mel Kirk) – There are some complete idiots on the web.
• .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey (Matthew Connelly)
• Book Review – C# in Depth (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Book Review: C# in Depth (Rhonda Tipton)
• PowerShell Eventing QuickStart (Lee Holmes)
• Visual Studio UX Taskforce, Office UX Taskforce… etc. (Leon Bambrick) – Link of the Day
• Moog’s First Guitar Features Infinite Sustain: So Go Out and Have a Bite (Sean Fallon)
• Help Decide Sandcastle’s Fate (Troy Goode)
• Make Zune Resume Your MP3 Audio Book Files When Replaying (Roy Osherove)
• New Subscriber Downloads User Interface (Chris Deluca)

Design / Methodology

• The Language of Mocks (or Is That Test Doubles) (Casey Charlton)
• The Dynamic Language Advantage: A Concrete Example (Russell Ball)

SQL Server

• SQL Server Express 2008: Now in Two Flavors (Dan Fernandez)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for June 10, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• LINKBLOG for June 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for June 11, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2008 — #296 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #112 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – June 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day