Dew Drop – July 24, 2008

I’m a little late getting this out today. I’m having WLW issues with WordPress 2.6, so I’m publishing via the WP admin screens today (copy/paste from WLW worked pretty well though).

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSTest, Why I Hate You… You Cause Me Too Much Friction and RhinoMocks New Arrange, Act, Assert Does Not Seem to Work Under MSTest… Odd (Derik Whittaker)
• ADO.NET Data Services Support for LINQ to NHibernate (David Hayden)
• Using Speech in Visual Studio (Phil Denoncourt)
• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• Professional Visual Studio 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Silverlight

• Tall Skinny Data Columns Using Improved WrapPanel for Silverlight (Matt Perdeck)
• Silverlight at Gamefest (Tim Heuer)
• Drawing Fractal Trees – Part 3 (Avi Pilosof)
• Getting Information About the SubImages of the MultiscalImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)

Design / Methodology

• Some Points About Services Layer (Gunnar Peipman)
• Prevention v. Cure (Part 1) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET Cookies – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #24 – Retrieve Views From Different Folders (Stephen Walther)

SQL Server

• .NET Rocks! – Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Online Resources (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server 2005 – Track Down Active Transactions Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• stackoverflow Podcast #15 (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Announces Reorganization – Platforms & Services Division Will Be Split Up (Gregor Herdmann)
• Getting Started With PowerShell 2 – Part 3 (Joel Bennett)
• More Information on Windows Live Wave 3 (damaster)
• Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!? (Chris G. Williams)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 23, 2008 (Ilia Iordinov)
• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 24, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 256 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight News for July 24, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.24 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for July 23, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #143 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2008 — #333 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Professional Visual Studio 2008: Nick Randolph, David Gardner: Books