Category: Development

 

Design / Methodology

• Multi Tenancy – Extensible Data Model (Oren Eini)
• Agile 2008 – One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration (Ade Miller)
• Software Development Teams and Sports (Peter Provost)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Theme Generator (Ryan Lanciaux – via G. Andrew Duthie) – Link of the Day
• IronNails: Rails-Like Development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• SQL Server 2008 Cannot Be Installed If You Have Visual Studio 2008 RTM Installed (Denis Gobo)
• Skinning the Cat with Fluent NHibernate (Robert Johnson)
• Understanding Tail Recursion (Chris Smith)
• Getting Started with Mocking and Moq (Joel Ross)
• LINQ to SQL T4 Template Reloaded (Damien Guard)
• ALT.NET: What Does It Mean? (Davy Brion)
• Book Review: LINQ in Action (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games (Mike Snow)
• The Continuum Show – Essential Editions (Adam Kinney)

 

Web Development

• An Arbitrary Cycle Method For ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)

 

Miscellaneous

• Image and Photo Effects on the Cheap (Free!) (Dana Coffey)
• MSDN Forums Offline Reader Now Available! (CTP) (Alessandro Teglia)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 7, 2008 and Interesting Finds: August 7, 2008 PM Edition (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #62 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight News for August 7, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)
• Link Listing – August 7, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• wsoac#27 – Oslo and ‘Midori’ and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Vision (Dilip Krishnan)
• Everyman Links for August 8, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #154 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 8, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Design / Methodology

• Multi Tenancy and Multi Tenancy – The Physical Data Model (Oren Eini)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio .NET Platform Target Explained (Darren Stokes)
• Including the Batteries in IronPython (Harry Pierson)
• .NET Service Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• A Cry for Help with NHibernate (Joel Bennett)
• .NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka on CSLA .NET 3.5 (MS Downloads)
• IronPython – Release 2.0 Beta 4 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Hey Ma, I’m on TV! (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #30 – Create Custom Route Constraints (Stephen Walther)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend – Helping Designers and Developers Coexist Peacefully (Brian Hunter)
• Play Olympic Games in Silverlight (Tim Heuer)

 

Events / Community

• I Will Be Delivering My First Public-Facing Oslo Presentation Oct 8th in Amsterdam at the SOA Symposium (Brian Loesgen)

 

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 (Vasudev)
• SQL Server 2008 RTM (Dan Rigsby) – Link of the Day
• SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2008 RTM Samples Are Up on CodePlex Now (David Reed)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008 (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface Order Form (MS Downloads) – Get ‘em while they’re hot!
• Microsoft’s Vision (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2008 and Innovation Notes: August 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for August 6, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Links (8/6/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• wsdac#14 – Monads for Imperative Language Programmers (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #153 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Querying with LINQ to Entities vs ObjectQuery in EF (Julie Lerman)
• The Dark Side of LINQ (Eran Kampf)
• What Have We Been Up To? (James Lau)
• Adding Async Operations to Asynchronous Computation Expressions in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• PodCast: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity and MEF (Brad Abrams)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rules for Spartan Programmers (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• 7 Essential Guidelines for Functional Design (Dustin M. Wax)
• Pex (MS Research) – “Program EXploration is a white-box test generation tool.”

 

Web Development

• The HTML Theme: Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Kyle Baley)
• Need a Simple Grid for ASP.NET AJAX? (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Compare on Kelley Blue Book with Silverlight and DeepZoom (Tim Heuer)
• Enter the Continuum Show (Adam Kinney)

 

SharePoint

• Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II – Update for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Joris Poelmans)
• SharePoint Best Practices Conference (Nick)

 

Miscellaneous

• Talented Interns Take Microsoft Research by Storm (Arash Asadpour)
• More on Microsoft’s ‘Speed Launch’ Prototype (Todd Bishop)
• Office Labs Releases Speed Launch (Steve Clayton)
• On Documentation for (and by) Developers (Peter Bromberg)
• Bad News, Good News (Jeff Atwood)
• Z3 (MS Research) – “An SMT solver that combines several theory solvers into a combined framework.”

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Find #92 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: August 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #61 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight News for August 5, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• wmoc#14 – Framework Designer Tools and Oslo at the PDC (Dilip Krishnan)
• Link Listing – August 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #152 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day