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Daily Bits – February 22, 2008

Community

Code Camp – So What If They Laugh at You? (Justin Saraceno)

WPF/Silverlight

WPF and Silverlight 2.0 Themes – Reuxables (Pete Brown)
WPF Master Pages (Rob Relyea)
A RedmondMag Article on Silverlight 2.0 Beta Availability, MIX08 and … (Zhiming Xue)
View Antique Books with Silverlight (or WPF) (G. Andrew Duthie)

.NET

Discovering Empty Try/Catch Blocks (Christopher Bennage)
C# .NET Gmail Tools (quamtar)
Coming Soon to LINQ to SQL (Faisal Mohamood)
ADO.NET Sync Services (Daniel Moth)
.NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool (Michael C. Kennedy)

Misc

HealthVault and Openness (Eric Gunnerson)
Testy Development (Jacob Proffitt)
Versioning Issues with Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces (Phil Haack)
The Sweet Sound of a Million Microsoft Haters’ Heads Exploding (Craig Shoemaker)
Do Not Learn Ruby (webmat)
Tools for Authoring NAnt Build Files (Boyan Kostadinov)
LINQ to Mock: MoQ Is Born (Daniel Cazzulino)
Microsoft Research Virtual WiFi (MS Research)

Visual Studio

SharePoint

SmartTools for SharePoint – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 20, 2008 and Link Listing – February 21, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
LINKBLOG for February 21, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (2/21/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: February 21, 2008 (Jason Haley)
1 Link Today (2008-02-21) (Matt Hinze)
The Morning Brew #38 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008: Joseph C. Rattz: Books

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Daily Bits – February 21, 2008

Misc

Programming Self-Generating Code for Windows Applications (Jim Charles)
On Hiring a Brainy Developer (Jay Kimble)
Joystiq Live From the Microsoft GDC Keynote (G. Andrew Duthie)
Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard’s Approach to Multiplayer Game Design and Session: Taking Xbox Live Arcade Games to the Next Level (Dan Fernandez)
Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Zune (David Weller)
HealthVault: Opening Up the Vault! and HealthVault: Offline Access Sample (VaibhavB)
Which Is the Must-Have Skill For a Software Developer? (Abhijit Nadgouda)
Pattern Focus: Singleton v2.0 (Patrik Löwendahl)
The SharePoint Developer – New Job (Paul Andrew)
Dude, This Sucks! (Neil Versel)
The Mission of a Software Architect (Rainer Eschen)
SharePoint Bootcamp Tickets on Sale (Heather Solomon)
JackFlash Gadget Factory – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

.NET

Do try..catch Blocks Hurt Runtime Performance? (pheaven)
WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008 (Marc)
LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
The Weekly Source Code 15 – Duct Tape Edition (Scott Hanselman)
Working with Lambda Expressions (Brian Mains)
Workflow Foundation 101 (Maurice de Beijer)
Writing Better Code – Keepin’ It Extensible (Matthew Cochran)

Web Development

Manage Your ASP.NET Web.config Files Using NAnt (JKealey)
Update to wwScriptVariables Server to Client Variable Container (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio

P/Invoke Library – VS 2005 & 2008 Add-In (Ernest Laurentin)

Other Link Blogs

Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for February 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
links for 2008-02-21 (Sam Buchanan)
The Morning Brew #37 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on: Books: Craig McMurtry,Marc Mercuri,Nigel Watling

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Daily Bits – February 20, 2008

SQL Server

How to Login to SQL Management Studio If Your Default Database Has Been Deleted (Derik Whittaker)
SQL Server Alerts: Soup to Nuts (Robyn Page & Phil Factor)
SQL Server 2008 Feb CTP, MS SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack CTP, Feb 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Books Online CTP (Feb 2008) (MS Downloads) – Updated samples are also available on CodePlex.
Start PowerShell in Management Studio (Allen M. White)

.NET

LINQ to SQL and Stored Procedures (David Hayden)
.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap (Scott Guthrie)
Visual LINQ: Watch Query Expressions as They Happen! (Jon Skeet)
Creating Your Own Provider Framework (Joel Ross)

WPF

The Importance of Learning Expression Blend (Josh Smith)

Misc

10 Things Project Managers Wish Developers Understood (Frank Kelly)
Development of Further Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)
Blog Roll: VS Team System Team, Blog Roll: VS TFS Team and Blog Roll: VS Team System Development Team (Charles Sterling)
Building Sandcastle Documentation with Team Build (Grant Holliday)
It’s Not OK to Skip the Standup (Travis Illig)
Top 10 Application Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen)

Visual Studio

VSX: Migrating VS 2005 Packages to VS 2008 (Quan To)

Web Development

Creating an AJAX-Enabled Calendar Control (Scott D. Smith)
Silverlight 2.0: The Wait Is Almost Over (Kathleen Richards)
ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, AppDomain and Friends (Gustavo Duarte)
Precompilation in ASP.NET 2.0 (K. Scott Allen) – An oldie but a goodie.
A JavaScript Stack Trace in ASP.NET AJAX (Joel Rumerman)
High Memory Usage with UserControls in IE (Using Debug Diag) (Tess Ferrandez)
Creating CodeSmith Templates (Brian Mains)

Other Link Blogs

Link Listing – February 18, 2008 and Link Listing – February 19, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: February 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
6 Links Today (2008-02-19) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for February 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (2/19/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #36 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series): Books: Martin Fowler

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