Category: Development

 

Web Development

• Easily Build Powerful Client-Side AJAX Paging Using jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Takin the HttpContext Out of the MVC Framework Controller (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: HTML Utopia (Larry Clarkin)
• Tip #5 Did You Know… How to Databind a ListView Control? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Building a Custom XML Configuration System for ASP.NET – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #35 – Use the NHaml View Engine (Stephen Walther)
• Multiple Control Selection Tips/Tricks/Workarounds (MS Web Dev Tools Team)
• The Weekly Source Code 32 – Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPub Server in WCF (Scott Hanselman)
• Exploring System.Web.Routing (Justin Etheredge)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Questions on Application Domains, Application Pools and Unhandled Exceptions (Tess Ferrandez)
• One Way Operations in Services (Josh Twist)
• Custom Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
• ThreadPool Bug in .NET 2.0 SP1 Is Fixed! (Michael C. Kennedy) – Michael’s favorite .NET bug has been squashed in 3.5 SP1.
• Comparing Times for Loading Models of Different (Exaggerated) Sizes (Julie Lerman)
• Fluent NHibernate Series on NHibernate FAQ (Tobin Harris)
• Easing the Pain of WCF Debugging (Davy Brion)
• May the Source Stay With You Contest (Steve Andrews)
• Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly (.NET Memory Management, Part 5) (Rick Minerich)
• "SmartInstance" in StructureMap 2.5 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• CSLA Into the Future (Rockford Lhotka)
• ObservableServiceHost – An InstanceContext Creation-Aware WCF ServiceHost (Dan Rigsby)
• Breakpoints and Tracepoints in Visual Studio (Black Wasp)
• Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Release of the SDK to support VS2008 SP1.
• C# Object Creation Time Trials (Chris Brandsma)
• The Future of .NET Reflector (Lutz Roeder) – Link of the Day
• Indispensable Developer Tools: NDepend Professional (Arjan Zuidhof)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Easy Way to Writing Good User Stories (Max Pool)
• The Future of Software Testing (Part 1) (James Whittaker)
• Measuring the Scale of a Release (Steven Sinofsky)
• Check In Early, Check In Often (Jeff Atwood)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New Silverlight 2 Media Player For My Blog! (Martin Grayson)
• Blend Container Editing (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Troubleshooting Data/Service Access in Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Text Clarity in WPF (jytylr)
• Tip of the Day #30: Fast Sprite Animation in Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Particle Generator (Robby Ingebretsen)

 

Miscellaneous

• 25 Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps for Geeks (Dana Coffey)
• Why Do You Want WinFS? (Ed Bott)
• Best WordPress Plugin for Related Posts? (Matt Cutts)
• "Demo of the Year" of 2006 Released by Microsoft (Robert Scoble)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #18 (Jeff Atwood)
• My (Web) Tools of the Trade (Mike Gunderloy)
• More Conditional Formatting in SSRS (Joe Webb)
• Circle Dock Is No Ordinary App Launcher (Sarah Perez)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 20, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – August 19, 2008 and Link Listing – August 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Links (8/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: August 20, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• WMOC#16 – Coninuations, Currying and Recursion and WSDAC#16 – Behind NBC’s Olympics Website (Dilip Krishnan)
• Everyman Links for August 20, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2008 — #352 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #163 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.08.13~2008.08.21 (gOODiDEA)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ImmutableStack in F#, Part 2 (Jared Parsons)
• NAnt and Setup Projects (*.vdproj) (Kevin Hurwitz)
• Smarter Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
• Probably the Most Powerful LINQ Operator: SelectMany (Bart de Smet)
• Clone Detective for Visual Studio – Release v1.0.0.0 (CodePlex) – Looks like this could be useful for refactoring when doing Brownfield development.
• Pluralsight’s WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series (Aaron Skonnard)
• C# Inline Methods and Optimization (Ade Miller)
• What’s in NetFX 3.5 SP1? (Kevin Frie)
• Microsoft StyleCop – Release v4.3 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Thank You, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Davy Brion) – Awesome!

 

Design / Methodology

• Design Patterns – Part 1 (Granville Barnett)
• What First – CI or Unit Testing? (Tim Barcz) – Davy Brion responds.
• Priority Filter (Corey Ladas)
• Pretty Simple Software (Tobin Harris)
• Tasty Beverages (Eric Lippert)
• On Good Design and Defining Success and DDD, Repositories and ORMs (Jimmy Bogard)
• Two-Phase Initialization (Sasha Goldshtein)
• I’m Thinking of Using Agile Software Development – But Should I Use Lean Software Development Instead? (Martin Fowler)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip of the Day #29: Creating a Transparent, Draggable Dialog with Rounded Corners (Mike Snow)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 3 (Christopher Bennage)
• Teitlebaum’s WPF Graphic Demos, Part 1 (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex! (William Cornwill)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #34 – Dispose of Your DataContext (or Don’t) (Stephen Walther)
• Logging with ASP.NET MVC Action Filters (Timothy Khouri)
• Quick Tip: Dynamically Add an Icon for External Links (Karl Swedberg)
• Creating a Dynamic, Data-Driven User Interface (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)

 

Database

• SSIS: Validating Your Package to See If It Will Execute (Jamie Thomson)
• Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

 

Events / Community

• Kaizenconf – Calm Down People (Scott C. Reynolds)

 

Self-Help for Developers

• Rainy Day Coding (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Importance of a Personal Development Plan (Scott Nichols) – Link of the Day

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month and Office 14: Alpha Testing to Begin Before Year-End (Sumeeth Evans)
• The Blue Monster Book Club Continues (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 19, 2008 – [Final Cut] and Innovation Notes: August 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #94 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for August 19, 2008 — #351 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for August 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for August 20, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• The Morning Brew #162 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Datagrid & the WPF Toolkit (Marc)
• Prism, MEF and DI oh my (Glenn Block)
• The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App (Mike Taulty)
• Terrain Tutorial Part 2 – Using Transform Matrices to Create 3D Looking Terrain and Tip of the Day #28: How to Implement a Custom Mouse Cursor (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 2 Samples: Dragging, Docking, Expanding Panels (Part 2) (Martin Grayson)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 10: A Practical Look at Silverlight Part 2 (Keith Elder)
• Incorporating Crystal Reports in a C# WPF Application (Sumair Shaikh)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO .NET Data Services: Data in the Cloud (Stephen Forte)
• ForEach, A Simple but Very Useful Extension Method (Glenn Block)
• The Tarantino Project – Automated Database Migrations and More (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Add Configuration Files to Your Visual Studio Project (Shahar Yair)
• Why Learning F# Is So Difficult (Kevin Hazzard)
• So What Happened to the WCF Extensions for Visual studio 2005 (Dan Rigsby)
• Curry for Dummies Cont’d – A Note on Purity (Bart de Smet)
• Fluent NHibernate – Configuration (Chad Myers)
• Poor Man’s Syntax Highlighting (Oren Eini)
• SubSonic Scaling (Rob Conery)

 

Web Development

• Free Training on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and ASP.NET MVC (Marc)
• NPR Wants Suggestions for Their Next API Version (Andres Ferrate)
• IronNails: Some Progress (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6 (Ryan Farley)
• Integrating Google Maps Into an ASP.NET Page (Bartek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does Testing Lessen Quality? (Scott Schimanski)
• Scrum – A Not-So-Bad Development Methodology (Tim Barcz)
• Prevention v. Cure (Part 5) (James Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• Good Design Is Not Subjective (Chad Myers)

 

Events / Community

• Events This Week – August 18, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• August Developer Events in PA (Rachel Appel)
• Continuous Improvement in .NET Software Development (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• Add Office 97/2003 Links to Windows’ "New" Menu (Kevin Purdy)
• 5 Tips for Hiring a Star Team (Steve Clayton)
• The Windows 7 Team (Steven Sinofsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 18, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for August 18, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2008 — #350 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 18, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #161 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 19, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)

 

Book of the Day