Month: October 2008

 

Would love to be at Philly .NET Code Camp this morning, but Stelene is working this weekend, and I don’t think my girls are old enough to grasp TDD. We need to move closer to babysitters family.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Blisteringly Fast Integration Tests with NHibernate and SQLite (Chris Canal)
• WPF: DelayBinding (Paul Stovell)
• Disassembling .NET Notes: Field Signatures Part 3 (Jason Haley)
• Converting and Customizing XAML to PNG with Server-Side WPF (Laurent Bugnion)
• AjGenesis Code Generation – Release: v0.5 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft Expected to Release Silverlight 2 Next Week (Mary Jo Foley) – Link of the Day
• Page Navigation and Browser History in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip #13: Did You Know… How to Get the Browser Agent Using ASP.NET Ajax? (Federico Silva Armas)
• New ASP.NET MVC Tutorials (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #60 – How to Load a XAML Control From a File or String (Mike Snow)
• Keys to Web 3.0 Design and Development When Using ASP.NET (Jon Davis)

 

Events / Community

• MSDN Follow-Up: Silverlight 2 (Jim O’Neil)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Xbox Experience to Use… Microsoft Windows Cloud OS?? (Paul Thurrott)
• Trustworthy Languages (Rob Teixeira)
• How Do You Rate Yourself? (Meera Subbarao)
• Friday Books – Agile Project Management with Scrum (Dave M. Bush)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight News for October 10, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• Interesting Finds: October 10, 2008 and Innovation Notes: October 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for October 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

.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)

 

Book of the Day