Category: Development

Happy New Year to all. I hope your 2008 is a great one!

MSBuildContrib Updates (via Christopher Steen)

Zotero – The Next-Generation Research Tool (Firefox plugin) (via Sam Buchanan)

303 Insanely Interesting Links From 2007 (via Trumpi)

Moving ASP.NET MVC Posts to ASP Alliance (via DotNetSlackers)

ADO.NET Data Services with ASP.NET AJAX Support (video)

Three Unexpected Weapons in the Battle Against “Blogger’s Block” (via Trumpi)

In C#, When to use String vs. string (via DotNetSlackers)

Using Managed Code to Determine What .NET Framework Versions and Service Packs Are Installed (via Mike Gunderloy’s final installment of The Daily Grind)

SQL Server – Remove Duplicate Characters from a String (via DotNetSlackers)

Software Development Predictions for 2008

Best of Codesqueeze 2007

Microsoft to Build an ‘Emacs.Net’ Text Editor (via WinBeta)

Spell Checker Update 2.1 – A Few Bug Fixes and a Couple of New Features

Questions Every .NET Developer Should Be Able to Answer

Tips for Conference Bloggers (via Cool Tools)

Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 1

Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 6: Joins (via DotNetSlackers)

Some Free MSPress eBook Chapters (via DotNetKicks)

Ensure the Quality of the Code That Will Be Developed This Year

Just Added Mole to My .NET Toolbox

 

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A Number of Annoying Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET Related Bugs

A Brilliant Way to Quote

Creating a Data Access Layer for Paging in SQL Server 2005 (Part 2)

ReSharper 3.1 Released (via Mike Gunderloy)

Design Principles To Live By: Encapsulate What Varies (via Arjan’s World)

Test Everything! – Test Your Website with Over 100 Tools (via DownloadSquad)

ASP.NET MVC and Accessing Server Controls in CodeBehind

Are You a Problem Solver or a Developer?

Web Hosts Offering ASP.NET 3.5

Microsoft Needs You to Build Emacs.Net (via Chris Sells)

MemAnalysis – A Native Memory Leak Analysis Tool (via Steve Pietrek)

Google Safe Browsing Library for .NET Beta 2 (via DotNetSlackers)

Spicebird: Mozilla-Based Outlook Clone with Collaboration Features (via DownloadSquad)

Foundations of Programming Part 7 (sorta) – ActiveRecord

MS Popfly Named on of PC World’s 25 Most Innovative Products of 2007 (via Adam Nathan)

 

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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)

 

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