Day: May 7, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

• The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
• More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
• The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
• Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
• LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
• Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
• A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
• Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
• GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
• Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
• Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
• Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
• Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
• Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
• E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
• Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
• Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• .NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
• See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
• Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
• Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

• Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
• It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
• 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
• Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
• Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
• Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
• Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
• Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day