Dew Drop – October 10, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New for Performance Profiling Tools for WPF? (jytylr)
• FrameworkElement vs. FrameworkContentElement (Josh Smith)
• PDC: Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF Effects and Transitions Library Applied (Adam Kinney)
• What’s the Point of Delegates in .NET? (Derick Bailey)
• Friday Books: Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform (Dave M. Bush)
• The LINQ List Projects (Eyal Vardi) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• Custom Controls – The Denouement (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Google Maps with the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)
• Calling a WCF WebService from a SharePoint WebPart Using JavaScript (Michael Washam)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #58 – Text Wrapping and Line Breaks in TextBlocks and Silverlight Tip of the Day #59 – How to Display Special Characters in XAML (Mike Snow)
• {You Shape} It (Frank Arrigo)
• ASP.NET MVC and the New IIS 7 Rewrite Module (Scott Hanselman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning on a Project (Ian Cooper)
• Partial Mocks with the StructureMap AutoMocker (Derik Whittaker)

 

Events / Community

• More Microsoft PDC Changes (Dan Rigsby)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Next Killer OS Is… SharePoint? (Eran Kampf)
• Amazon Drops S3 Prices (Rafe Needleman)
• SQL Server 2008 – Enhanced TRIM() Function – Remove Trailing Spaces, Leading Spaces, White Space, Tabs, Carriage Returns, Line Feeds (Pinal Dave)
• The Translucency of Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
• IE7 vs IE8 in VSTS 2008 SP1 Load Test (Vitaliy Konev)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 273 (Sam Gentile) – Glad to hear you’re keeping yourself busy, Sam.  🙂
• Silverlight News for October 9, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for October 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS (Scott Guthrie)
• WMOC#22 – More on OSLO and Dublin and WSOCA#35 – SOA Anti-Patterns, Governance (A Catchup Post) and WSDAC#22 – A Fresh Look at Google Gears Over at MySpace (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for October 09, 2008 — #392 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #198 (Chris Alcock)

 

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