Day: March 19, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 3: Blog Post Summary (Andy Beaulieu)
• Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration (Brian Randell)
• .NET RIA Services is now public (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• What’s New in Silverlight 3? (Emil Stoychev)
• Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? (Mike Taulty)
• Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index (Pete Brown)
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features and Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• A great set of performance tests for datareader,linq to sql, ef (Julie Lerman)
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage (Sriram Krishnan)
• Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions (Craig Andera)

 

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases (Me)
• Commerce Server 2009 Announced at MIX09 (ASP.NET News)
• New Experiences @MIX from the Microsoft Web Platform (Bill Staples)
• MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote and MIX09 Day 2 and MIX09 Day 2 Bill Buxton Keynote (Dave Campbell)
• MIX 2009 Keynote Announcements: Day 1 (Denny Boynton)
• MIX09 Photos and MIX09 Photos Part 2 (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design and MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences (Tim Sneath)
• A lap around MIX09 announcements (Simone Chiaretta)
• For MIX09 attendees: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! and Subtext 2.1.1 Available Via the Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Full Trust and FastCGI (PHP!) and PHP + ASP.NET in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust (Mohit Srivastava)
• Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI (Windows Azure Team)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Phani Raj)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip – Return specific views for specific errors. (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Documentation and Videos (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) (Scott Hanselman)
• Reach your people everywhere, in real time! (Kevin)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC Goes RTM Before MIX09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Scott)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive (Derik Whittaker)
• If you’ve ever wondered what Query/Command Separation means (Jeremy D. Miller)
• "Architect" is a swear word. (Leon Bambrick)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieConfiguration Class (Dave Burke)
• When Is One Container (IoC) Not Enough? (Dru Sellers)
• Your Software Project Has No Goal (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack and First Look at Expression Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! (Carl Franklin)
• Tips and Advice – Self Organizing Teams (Bob)
• Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3 (Charles)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Consuming REST services with HttpClient (Cliff Simpkins)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Johnny Lee on Computer Vision (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 137 – Microsoft Velocity Installation and Configuration with David Penton – audio (Wally McClure)
• Behind the scenes: How Scott Guthrie prepares for his MIX09 keynote (Tina) – Link of the Day

 

SharePoint

• Aging Calculated Fields in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 (Paul Andrew)

 

Community / Events

• Talk – JavaScript at Rockford .NET (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web – March 25, 2009 Reston, VA (Nandita)
• The State of ALT.NET (Nick Berardi)

 

Miscellaneous

• First Google Chrome Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• 14 Twitter directories to find new friends (Don Reisinger)
• WordPress News Report: iPhone, Widgets API, WordCamps in Hong Kong and China, International WordPress.tv (Lorelle VanFossen)
• The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Re-reading books (Mark Needham)
• Windows Azure Outage (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Xbox 360 and EA Bring Beloved HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT to Next Generation of Players (Sumeeth Evans)
• Internet Explorer 8 To Be Released At Noon EDT Today (March 19) (Sunshine)
• SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones (Pinal Dave)
• Google Launches Chrome Experiments To Showcase JavaScript Applications (Robin Wauters)
• Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8 (Jatinder Mann)
• Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Hits Beta (Brad Linder)
• WorldWide Telescope Web Client now available – bringing the universe closer to everyone (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #310 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for March 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for March 18h, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day