Dew Drop – July 4, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik RadControls for WPF Beta 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• How to Load CAL Modules from a Website (or Other Locations) (Erwin Vandervalk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring with ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# Fixes I Often Use and Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs – Building the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) (Peter Kellner)
• Using the Entity Framework in a Layered Architecture (John Papa)
• Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman)
• MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates (Andrew Stopford)
• Parallel Extensions – Using Futures to Calculate Pi in Hexidecimal (Bart de Smet)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N (Sam Gentile) – Nice post on WCF (pronounced Indigo) – Link of the Day
• C# Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes (Sam Allen)
• Exploring MEF Extensibility Points (Sidar Ok)
• Back to Basics – Do Namespace Using Directives Affect Assembly Loading? (Scott Hanselman)
• Basic MSBuild Script (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology

• Swimming Upstream Is Hazardous (K. Scott Allen)
• The Immaturity of In Browser Testing (Jay Fields)
• Get Your Func On (Karl Seguin)
• Beauty vs. Usability – A Tale of Two Masters (Sara Chipps)

Web Development

• ASP.NET ViewState – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• Is Your Website Ready for IE8? (J. Barnes)
• Kill Your Users Table (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET and Dynamic Languages (Jimmy Schementi)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to New Feature of Backup Compression and Deprecated DataType vardecimal (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Can’t Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? (Jeff Atwood)
• Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips (Sara Perez)
• Book Review: IT Architectures and Middleware (2nd Edition) and Book Review: The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd Edition) (Evan Hoff)
• PowerShell Script Repository and Code Signing (Joel Bennett)
• Self-Evangelism (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 3, 2008 and Silverlight News for July 4, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #84 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #46 and Visual Studio Links #47 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.04 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #129 (Chris Alcock)

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