Day: September 8, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley) – Jason consolidates his .NET Reflector add-ins and moves them to CodePlex.
• CSharp VAR Misconceptions (Dave M. Bush)
• Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and ATOMPub with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .NET Framework Source Debugging (Doug Holland)

 

Web Development

• I Can’t Send E-Mail from localhost; Cannot connect to SMTP server (Chris Love) – A quick tip on sending email from your .NET code.
• ASP.NET MVC Refcard available (Simone Chiaretta)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Getting and Setting Query String Values in JavaScript (Rick Strahl)
• Dynamically Loading Config Files (Joel Ross)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Secret Of Being A Great Mentor (Alan Skorkin) – Link of the Day
• 7 Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking (Garr Reynolds)
• Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free (Bruce Kyle) – Links to patterns & practices resources.
• “Screen Activator” Pattern (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Daily Standup Meetings – Introduction and 5 useful tips and Making Impossible Decisions Without Panicking (Roy Osherove)
• Easier Unit Testing of WCF Services with ServiceTestContext (Lars Wilhelmsen)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Document Toolkit 1.1 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight, Isolated Storage, RIA and Network Changes – Part II (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? – Implementation details (Bea Stollnitz)
• Service Locator in MVVM and Animating width and height when they are Double.NaN (Marlon Grech)
• The “From Russia with Love” way to create ViewModels (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Show #331: Seattle Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• TFS 2008 Best Practices – 6 ways to ensure quality and Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• A chat with Sara Ford – CodePlex turns 3, reaches 10,000 projects (Nic Fillingham)
• Ping 28: Free Win7, Zunes, Xbox, Interface of the future (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September 7th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• TechEd Australia Day 1 (Deepak Kapoor)

 

Database

• SQL Server Comparison Operators (Richard Carr) – Some T-SQL basics.
• How I got started with SQL Server (Denis Gobo) – A new meme floating around the ether.

Miscellaneous

• Download Office 2010 Beta Icons Pack (Taimur Asad) – Download some hi-res versions of the new MS Office icons.
• Behind the Scenes of Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters ads (Steve Clayton)
• Learn Windows PowerShell 2.0 with PowerGUI (Osama Sajid)
• C++ Wrapper for Windows 7 Taskbar Tabbed Thumbnails (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CppDepend goes RTM Today (Patrick Smacchia)
• Big Agile Book Structure (Mike Cottmeyer)
• WordPress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds (Nik Cubrilovic)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 07, 2009 — #686 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #427 and The Morning Brew #428 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #69 (Grant Palin)
• Links (9/7/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 367 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 7th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 109 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #535 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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