Dew Drop – September 9, 2008

 

Web Development

• "Extension Method" in JavaScript (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Silverlight Slider and Absolute Values and Silverlight Install Experience Too Hard? (Tim Heuer)
• ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #4 1/2 – Validation Revisited (Stephen Walther)
• How to Produce XAP Files Manually (Ilia Iordanov)
• ASP.NET Caching – Improving Performance – Output Cache (Gil Fink)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1 (Peter Richie)
• 10 LINQ Myths (Joseph Albahari & Ben Albahari)
• F# September 2008 CTP Was Updated (Abel Avram)
• Tangible Software’s Instant VB/C# Converter Won My Heart in One Line of Code (Julie Lerman)
• Microsoft Extensibility Framework: Why? (Mike Hadlow)
• Custom Windows Chrome in WPF (Joe Castro)
• NHibernate Deep Grok (Tobin Harris)
• Clipboard History Plug-In for Visual Studio with DXCore, Part 1 and Part 2 (Mark Miller)
• What to Do When VWD Crashes or Hangs on You (Web Dev Tools Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• To Fight My Fire I Need a MOP (Andrew Stopford)
• Is There a Problem? (Thomas Jaeger)
• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Project – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• High Maintenance (Eric Lippert)
• Implementing Generic Natural Language DSL (Oren Eini)
• Software Process and Reduction of Quality (Peter Richie)
• TDD’ing a BinaryHeap with Pex (Part 1) (Jonathan de Halleux) – Link of the Day

 

Events / Community

• Microsoft PDC 2008 September Session Announcement (Dan Rigsby)
• Some Silverlight Events Coming Up (Tim Heuer)
• Coming to Pittsburgh: Our First MSDN Freedom Roadshow! (Lindsay Rutter)

 

Database

• SQL 2008, Filestream, Docs From VB (Mike Taulty)
• SQL Server – Error : Fix : SharePoint Stops Working After Changing Server (Computer) Name (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell ‘Suggestion Mode’ (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Did I Get Started in Software Development? (Max Pool) – Doh! I’ve been tagged by Max. My entry coming up shortly.   🙂
• Interview with Sarah Perez From Read Write Web (Kevin Muldoon)
• How Do You Prefer an English Blog to Be Written? (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Moving Into the Cloud (Joel Ross)
• Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome – Processes are the New Threads (Scott Hanselman)
• Applications, Coming Soon to a Mesh Near You (Long Zheng)
• Platform Improvements for IE8 Beta 2 (Doug Stamper)
• Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions (Harel M. Williams)
• Microsoft Building a Family of Live Mesh Applications (Mary Jo Foley)
• Photosynth Update – September 8 (Sunshine)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 08, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for September 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #96 (Tim Boland)
• Everyman Links for September 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #175 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for September 9, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)

 

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