Category: books

Catching up on the last several days…

Don’t Run Production ASP.NET Apps with debug=”true” Enabled. (via DotNetKicks)

Some Great Entity Framework Guidance About Performance in Client Applications (via DotNetSlackers)

How To: New ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Video Screencasts (ScottHa)

Don’t Unit Test GUI (via Arjan’s World)

Microsoft Volta – oh my oh my (via DotNetKicks)

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider (download)

Visual Studio Team System 2008 TFS Power Tools – Dec 2007 Release (download)

LINQ Quickly (book review)

Exception Handling Best Practices Part 1

XamlPadX v3.0 (download) (via DotNetKicks)

Read What Matters – AideRSS (service) (via Arjan’s World)

 

Book of the Day

 

I’m posting this on the evening of the 20th because tomorrow I’m starting my holiday vacation. I probably will not be posting regularly again until January 2nd.

Foundations of Programming (Part 5) – Unit Testing

Choosing an API to Talk to the Entity Framework

How to Avoid Regression Bugs While Adding New Features (via CodeBetter)

Get a Free Copy of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer (via Public Sector Developer Weblog and DotNetSlackers)

LINQ ‘let’ Keyword (How Did I Miss That?) (via DotNetKicks)

 

Book of the Day:

 

MappingEnumerable

Holiday Toys From the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team (via WinBeta)

Debug .NET Source Code (via Izzy)

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008 (download)

VS Refactoring Tools – 2008 Quicker Than 2005?

Quake 2 .NET Port with Visual Studio 2008 (v9.0) and Managed C++ (via DotNetKicks)

A State-Aware Generic List (via Arjan’s World)

VS 2008: The Road Ahead (via DotNetSlackers)

xUnit.net 1.0 RC1 Released

IMapper (Follow-up Article to MappingEnumerable)

 

Book of the Day: Lessons Learned in Software Testing by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord