Category: Development

Ok, doing a bit of catch-up here after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and a week of vacation. The list is going to be a little long.

NewProject and AddNewItem dialogs in VS 2008 RTM

Tips for immediately using R# 3.0.2 with VS 2008

Add Silverlight video to your blog

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Live Documents to Take on Google Docs and Microsoft Office (via WinBeta)

Zune 2 Hacks

No LINQ and SQLCLR

Visual Studio Team System Code Name "Rosario" November 2007 CTP Docs (Download)

Windows Live Tools and Visual Studio 2008 RTM (via WinBeta)

7zSharp 1.0.1 (Download)

Custom Debugger Visualizers

New Job, New House, New Baby, and Designing a Totally New Home Office

Backup ALL your SQL Server 2005 databases using ONE script (via DotNetKicks)

Performing Long Running Operation with Asynchronous Page in ASP.NET 2.0 (via DotNetKicks)

What do you want in C# vNext?

Alternative to ALT-INS for ReSharper Junkies

Generic Singleton Pattern (via Arjan’s World)

Back to Basics: XOR (via Arjan’s World)

The Effective Software Developer’s Book List (via Arjan’s World)

Ten Tips on Agile Software Development (via Arjan’s World)

Dark Visual Studio 2008 Style (via Jason Haley)

Silverlight Templates for VS 2008

Connecting to Pre-Release Versions of SQL Server 2008

C# vNext

Compiler Features in C#3 and VB9

Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0

Re-Throwing an Exception (via DotNetKicks)

LINQPad (via DotNetKicks)

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)

State of SubSonic, November 2007 (via DotNetKicks)

Try the Code Analysis Feature in the Nov. "Rosario" CTP

Learning PowerShell

DotNetKicks Plugin for WordPress and Live Writer (via DotNetKicks – duh)

WPF-Specific Snippets in Visual Studio 2008

Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 1

Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 2

Silverlight 2.0 Beta Coming Soon… (with Rich Controls)

SQL Server 2005 Books Online (Sept. 2007) (Download)

Test Driven Development for Beginners, Part 1

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool (via WinBeta)

15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-Ins, Part 2 (via DotNetKicks)

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Microsoft and Innovation (via DotNetKicks)

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

30 AJAX Tutorials

Enterprise Library 3.5 Just Became Enterprise Library 4.0 – Dependency Injection Application Block

Use PowerShell to Test Your RegEx’s

Compact Calendar (Great for project milestone tracking) (via Lifehacker)

A Use for Extension Methods

16 Online Email APIs

Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 3

Architecting LINQ to SQL Applications, Part 4

Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework

TDD with ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions (via DotNetKicks)

10 Podcasts Every Developer Should Listen To (via DotNetKicks)

A Preview of HTML 5 (via WinBeta)

Free Charting for ASP.NET (via DotNetKicks)

An Item Placeholder Must Be Specified in VS 2008 RTM

From C# to Java: Part 1

Maintainability Index Range and Meaning

Free SQL Server Tools That Might Make Your Life a Little Easier (via DotNetKicks)

In Depth: The ASP.NET MVC Pipeline (via DotNetKicks)

VS2008/.NET 3.5 Ships…sooooo…Where’s the Source?

Steps to Uninstall VS 2008 Beta 2 Before Installing the VS 2008 Final Release

HTML, CSS, Script Errors as Warnings in VS2008 RTM

An Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

An Architectural View of the ASP.NET MVC Framework

 

Lots of new MS Downloads available:

MS Visual Studio Tools for the MS Office System (v3.0 Runtime) (x86)

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP1

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 (x86)

Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0

MS Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Integrated Mode) Redistributable Package

MS Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Isolated Mode) Redistributable Package

Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008