Day: May 28, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using the BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard (MS Downloads)
• Get the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework (Bruce Kyle)
• MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default (Chris Patterson)
• Oslo May 2009 CTP: Intellipad Changes (Dan Rigsby)
• A simpler, conventions based DependencyProperty structure for silverlight using CustomControlBase (Roy Osherove)
• IronPython how cool it is (Ryan Svihla)
• Oslo May 2009 Sample Downloads and Documentation (Sam Gentile)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 (Microsoft Surface Blog)
• Parallel Stacks – Tasks view (Daniel Moth)
• Actors in F# – The Bounded Buffer Problem (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• eBay Releases New Silverlight Sidebar for Internet Explorer 8 (Blake Handler)
• Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight (Charlie Robbins)
• Book RTM’d today: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Devon Musgrave)
• SocketsLight – Silverlight Sockets Framework (Alexey Zakharov)
• WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Home Page (Karl Shifflett)
• List of features to track in WPF4 and the details on beta1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Document Toolkit: a better document service (Koen Zwikstra)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• Tool to find unused Resources in WPF/Silverlight XAML files (Rob Relyea)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PTOM: Black-box analysis of legacy applications (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – The Arrowhead Anti-Pattern (Chris Missal)
• Designing protocols (Jim Johnson)
• The 5 dysfunctions of teams in code (Mark Needham)
• Jumping In To Windows Azure Storage Services (Jason Ipock)
• Azure for Architects – Recent Updates (Jeff Barnes)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)

 

Web Development

• if IE Conditional CSS using ASP.NET Themes and Programming SEO – Tags and Keywords (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET 4.0 SEO features: Description and keywords (Gunnar Peipman)
• Setting Focus to Control in an IFRAME using JQuery (Thomas Williams)
• Tip#64:Did you know … How to convert a GridView column from asp:BoundField to asp:TemplateField in Design View? (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• Announcing The Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK! (Sunshine)
• First Look at Google Maps API v3 (Marc Grabanski)
• ASP.NET Routing in Windows Azure Using WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• WordPress Theme Development Frameworks (Paul Andrew)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Axum! (Carl Franklin)
• Search engineer stories (Patrick Riley)
• Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan: CLR 4 – Inside No-PIA and Shawn Farkas: CLR 4 – Inside the new Managed Security Model (Charles Torre)
• Misfit Geek Podcast (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC Screencast on T4 Templates (David Hayden)
• .NET 4, VS 2010 and Office: New Features in .NET 4 for Office Developers (John Wiese)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Code Frameworks with Javier Lozano (Jeff Brand)
• Geek Speak on Game Programming (Andy Beaulieu)

 

Community / Events

• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• MVPs Headline at 3rd Microsoft Community Day! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101: What’s a Host Header Site Collection? (Zach Rosenfield)
• Create MySites using C# and the SharePoint 2007 object model and Check that a user has a SharePoint MySite (Brendon Schwartz)
• Lightning Conductor Web Part – upcoming release (Nick)

 

Database

• 4000 character limit in SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Pivots to the Rescue – Providing Flexible SQL Server Queries (Dan Wahlin)
• Myth : I don’t need point in time recovery so I don’t need the transaction log (Simon Sabin)
• Compression tools are a must for any DBA (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skype 4.1 Beta Adds Screen Sharing and Other New Features (Adam Pash)
• Extending Google Chrome (Alex Chitu)
• TweetDeck vs. Seesmic (Elijah Manor)
• Windows 8: Tracking Work Internally with WorkTrack and Midori: The Next Security OS? (Stephen Chapman)
• Five Books To Read If You Want My Job (Steve Rowe)
• Head to Head: iPod Touch or the new Zune HD? (Taimur Asad)
• You can assign work items to a planned release – #038 (Sara Ford)
• Create a Twitter Account for Your Home Server with New Add-in @WHSTweet (Sarah Perez)
• Consulting Fail, or How to Get Removed from my Address Book (Michael Janke)
• Today Skyfire is an Integer (Larry Larsen)
• Google’s browser forges ahead as Chrome 3 hits dev channel (Lee Mathews)
• 8 Questions (and answers) about the Zune HD (Joel Johnson)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 7: The Four Rs (Justin Etheredge)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 — #601 and Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2009 – 2 — #602 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #356 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 323 (Sam Gentile)
• Creators Club Communiqué 29 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for 27th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• The Technology Post for May 27th (Jason N. Gaylord)

 

Book of the Day