Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – November 29-30, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Architecture Exploration with VSTA2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• My First VSTO Application – BeSure and Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder (David Starr)
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR Installation (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Spec# for Visual Studio 2008 v1.0.21125 (MS Research)
• Checking Scroll Lock Status (Richard Carr)
• Prism and Custom Enterprise Library Trace Listeners (Bob)
• "Operation Could Destabilize the Runtime" from Casting from Concrete to Interfaces with LINQ (Derik Whittaker)
• On C# and VB (Jesse Liberty)
• Taking the Magic Out of Expression<T> (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Export Providers and Custom Factories with MEF (Glenn Block)

 

Web Development

• Instantiating Components on Template Markup (Bertrand Le Roy)
• <asp:Chart> (Gunnar Peipman)
• Deleting Entities from Windows Azure Without Querying First (Steve Marx)
• Making Asynchronous Calls to WCF Services from ASP.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Storing Data in the Mesh : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Multi-Tenancy Part 2: Components and Context (Mike Hadlow)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N (Sam Gentile) – Recently updated post from Sam.
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Future Perfect (Dave Burke)

 

Career

• Avoiding Conflicts Within a Teleworking Team (Celine Roque)
• Hire the Best – Introduction (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Update Your Resume! (Scott Schimanski)
• How to Get Good People (Oren Eini)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Interesting Observation – Use of Index and Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)

 

Events / Community

• Microsoft FireStarter Events (David Starr)
• PDC Attendees Should Have Windows Azure Tokens (Steve Marx)

 

SharePoint

• Updated SharePoint RSS Aggregator Web Part (Zlatan Dzinic)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Allows DirectX 10 Acceleration on the CPU (Ben Hardwidge)
• Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.2 (MS Research)
• A Look at the Dynamic Themes in Windows Live Wave 3 (damaster)
• Head Banger Is Now Available on Xbox LIVE Community Games (Brian Peek)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: More Joy of Hashtables (with Get-HashtableAsObject) (James Brundage)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 29, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 — #440 and Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2008 – 2 — #441 and Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2008 — #442 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for November 28th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for November 28, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #86 (Darren Stokes)

 

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