Category: community

 

.NET

• Managed Extensibility Framework (Brad Abrams)
• Making spec# a Priority (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# in Depth (Eric Lippert) – Jon Skeet’s new book is now available.
• Caliburn and Prism (Rob Eisenberg)
• I Want spec# (Greg Young)
• Implementing Generic Caching (Dave)

 

Silverlight/WPF

• Viewbox for Silverlight 2 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Heterogeneous Hierarchies in the WPF Elements MultiColumnTreeView (Ivan Towlson)
• Silverlight Photo Album Control – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)

 

Events/Community

• Become a Member of “Partner Huddle” – A MS Partners’ Group on Facebook (Zhiming Xue)
• IASA Conference in NYC on May 22-23 (Zhiming Xue)

 

Design/Methodology

• UI Matter: Make the Simple Things Simple and Hard Things Possible (Patrick Smacchia)
• Individual Empowerment and Agile (Eric Gunnerson)
• The Microsoft Client Continuum… from Rich Clients to Rich Internet Applications (Jeff Barnes)

 

Miscellaneous

• How To: Setup a MOSS Development Environment (Eric Charran)
• Officelabs.com Is Live (Steve Clayton)
• Remote Video Conferencing + Whiteboard – PalBee (Jason Harris)
• Microsoft Internal Memo Details Windows 7 – Windows Live Ties (Paul Thurrott)
• Programmers Don’t Read Books – But You Should (Jeff Atwood)
• JPEG XR: The (R)evolution of JPEG (MS Research)
• Get Mesh (and Why We Require UAC) (John Macintyre) – Thanks for the UAC explanation, John.
• Wix.com Launch Time! (Amit)

 

Blogs/Blogging

• Some of the Silverlight Blogs I Read (Jaime Rodriguez)

 

Visual Studio

• TFS 2008 SP1 – An Impressive List of Features (Anthony Borton)

 

Career

• Thoughts on Being a Solution Architect (Tom Hollander)

 

SQL Server

• Query Analyzer Shortcuts – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Optimization Rules of Thumb – Best Practices – Reader’s Article (Praveen Barath)

 

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• Links Today (2008-04-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for April 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #83 (Chris Alcock)

 

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