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Dew Drop – May 12, 2008

Silverlight

Dispatch My Stuff to the Right Thread (Dino Esposito)
Silverlight For the Enterprises – Fundamentals (Hanu Kommalapati)

.NET

Two LINQ to SQL Myths (K. Scott Allen)
XLinq’n in the New World – Data Access Comparisons with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker)
Slightly Different Way to Assert That Exceptions Are Thrown (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
AddItem Extension Method for BulletedList, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox, RadioButtonList (Raj) – For those who miss the AddItem method from their VB6 days.
Hacking IronRuby (Oleg Tkachenko)
Peek at Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)

SharePoint

Getting Started with SharePoint Development (Paul Andrew)
Add DOC to PDF and Other Conversions to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Aspose)
Migrating From CMS2002 to MOSS 2007: XML Placeholder Controls (Joris Poelmans)
Synchronizing OneNote 2007 and WSS 3.0 (Mike Walsh)

Web Development

JavaScript: The Good Parts – Book Review (Sergio Pereira)
Exposing Windows Workflow as Web Services (Prabhjot Bakhsi)
The Most Used JavaScript Library Is… jQuery (Simone Chiaretta) – According to a css-tricks.com survey.

SQL Server

Introducing Database Security (Ken Downs)

Miscellaneous

Upcoming Events of Note (John Musser)
Phil Haack Is Stealing My Thunder (Max Pool) – Max, what font did you use in your awesome ‘rendering’? 🙂
XML: The Angle Bracket Tax (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

LINKBLOG for May 11, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links Today (2008-05-11) (Matt Hinze)
Interesting Finds: May 11, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links (5/11/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.12 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #91 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly Link Post 41 (Rhonda Tipton)
Link Listing – May 11, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Double Shot #205 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

JavaScript: The Good Parts: Douglas Crockford: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, silverlight, extension methods, sql server security

Dew Drop – May 11, 2008

.NET

Prism, CAB, and WinForms Futures (Glenn Block)

PowerShell

In Praise of TypeConverters – Spread the Love (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Zune Clock Has Arrived (G. Andrew Duthie)
Twitter This, Twitter That… (Rick Strahl)
Turning Off Automatic Syncing in Zune – How’s It Done? (Mike Walsh)
SlickEdit 2008 at First Glance (Dave Campbell)
Hello World! (Chris Deluca) – A developer on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site begins blogging.
Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live and First of Many New Live Developer Articles (John O’Brien)
Wix Widgets, Some Ideas (Amit Knaani)
Three Reasons to Use Disqus (Fred Wilson)
My Verdict on Disqus: Two Thumbs Up (Matthew Ingram)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 10, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-10) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for May 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Everyman Links for May 9, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Professional SlickEdit (Programmer to Programmer): John Hurst: Books

Technorati: .net development, patterns & practices, blogging, disqus, powershell

Dew Drop – May 10, 2008

Career

Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects (Celine Roque)
Live Mesh Are Hiring (Steve Clayton)

Visual Studio

6 Useful Visual Studio Tweaks You Need to Know (Shahar Yair)
Introducing RockScroll (Scott Hanselman) – Awesome free tool written by Rocky Downs. Link of the Day.

WPF / Silverlight

Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (MS Downloads) – This 5/9 refresh works with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta.
Metadata – A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Hey! I’m Over Here (Karl Shifflett)
Death, Taxes, and Deep Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
Build a Game in Silverlight and Win an Xbox 360! (Joe Stagner)
Animation In-Depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 – Part One (Faisal Khan)
How to Convert an Excel Graph to a Silverlight Application (Andrej Benedik)
BBC Goes DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

.NET

Another Domain Developer’s View of Entity Framework and Lazy Loading (Julie Lerman)
Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep: Skinning Your WinForms Applications (Jacob Lauzier)
SecureString in .NET 2.0 (Satheesh Babu)
Using LINQ to Perform “WHERE IN (Value1, Value2)” Queries (Dan Wahlin)
LINQ Query Operators: Lost That foreach Already! (Jimmy Bogard)
Taming Trees: Building Branching Structures (Rod Stephens)
TypeConverters: There’s Not Enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the World (Scott Hanselman)
The Weekly Source Code 26 – LINQ to Regular Expressions and Processing in JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)
Read Brian’s Blog on F# (Bryan Bell)
Shoutcast.NET – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Fun, Fun, Fun with ADO and Unicode Characters (Gary Sherman)

Web Development

ASP.NET AJAX Best Practices (Tanzim Saqib)
Creating Great Thumbnails in ASP.NET (Matt)
String Performance: An Analysis (Tom Trenka) – A performance analysis of JavaScript string operations in various browsers.
Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

DZone Refcardz (dzone) – Free PDF ~~cheatsheets~~ quick reference cards.
32 Ways to Keep Your Blog From Sucking (Tess Ferrandez)
Having Fun with Project Managers! (or: Why You Should Lock Your Desktop) (Maarten Balliauw)
Behind Live Mesh: What Is MOE? (Richard Chung)
Remoting with PowerShell QuickStart (Krishna Vutukuri)
SharePoint End User Security (Arpan Shah)

Link-O-Rama

WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/05/09 (Rob Relyea)
Link Listing – May 8, 2008 and Link Listing – May 9, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: May 9, 2008 and Innovation Notes: May 09, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-05-09) (Matt Hinze)
Daily Find #66 (Tim Boland)
LINKBLOG for May 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 — #271 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2008.05.10 (gOODiDEA)
New and Notable 240 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

SOA Principles of Service Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl): Thomas Erl: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, powershell, silverlight, expression blend 2.5, asp.net ajax, deepzoom, linq