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Dew Drop – March 8, 2008

Silverlight

Building Custom User Control in Silverlight 2.0 + How to Build Code Snippet for VS (Tamir Khason)
Dynamic Silverlight Part 3: Integrating Silverlight with ASP.NET MVC (John Lam)
Register XAP File Extension in IIS (Corey Schuman)
Tip of the Day: Core Silverlight Presentations From MIX08 – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)

Misc

Music to Code By (Russell Ball)
A Load of Performance Testing Info (Brent Strange)
A Question of Programming Ethics (Jeff Atwood) – This is scary stuff.
Gartner Case Study: Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008 (MS Downloads)
Work on Your Vocabulary. The Word For Today Is “CodableValue” (Eric Gunnerson) – Info on some HealthVault types.
The IE8 VPC – IE8 the Easy Way (Greg Duncan)
MOSS 2007 with SP1 (Slipstream) OfficeServerwithSP1.exe Released (Joel Oleson)
Windows Command Reference (MS Downloads)

.NET

You Can Watch and Influence the Future of VB and C# (Julie Lerman)
Using the Factory Pattern for Reading Object Graphs in .NET (Philippe Leybaert)
Book Excerpt: Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for .NET Framework 3.5 (Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, and Chris Bowen)
DirectX SDK (March 2008) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 (MIX08) Resources (Vishal R. Joshi)
MIX08 Sessions Published (Brad Abrams)
A Few Reasons to Like NHibernate (Oren Eini)
ASP.NET MVC Session at MIX08, TDD and MvcMockHelpers (Scott Hanselman)

Events/Community

Life on the Bus (The Code Trip)
MIX08 Day 3 (Peter Walke)
SD West 2008 – Get the Code! (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Links Today (2008-03-07) (Matt Hinze)
LINKBLOG for March 7, 2008 and LINKBLOG for March 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Morning Coffee 156 (Harry Pierson)

Book of the Day

Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Steve Resnick,Richard Crane,Chris Bowen: Books

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Daily Bits – March 7, 2008

MIX08

.NET Framework Libraries in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 (Imran Shaik)
MIX08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications From Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and VS2008 (Brad Abrams)
Deep Zoom (Seadragon) Silverlight 2.0 MultiScaleImages at MIX and The Weekly Source Code 18 – Deep Zoom Edition (Scott Hanselman)
A New Era of Expression (Somasegar)
Information Overload (Rudi Grobler)
Silverlight 2.0 + OOXML = TextGlow (James Newton-King)
Released: Virtual Earth JavaScript IntelliSense Helper (Marc)
MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog and A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow (Tim Sneath)

Misc

The Ten Types of Twitter Users (Brendan Tompkins)
35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets (Sven Lennartz & Vitaly Friedman)
Console, Cygwin and Ruby on Rails (Sam Gentile)
Code Review Thoughts (Ishai Sagi)

Silverlight/WPF

MSBuild Tasks For Build Machines For WPF and Silverlight (Tamir Khason)
Dynamic Silverlight Part 2: Managed JScript and flickr (John Lam)
Silverlight 2 Tutorials – Source Code (Jesse Liberty)

.NET

Dealing With PersonalImage (Eric Gunnerson)
A Simple Trick to Code Better and to Increase Testability (Patrick Smacchia)
Setting and Retrieving the Database ConnectionString in nHibernate (Peter van Ooijen)ADO.NET, Nullable Types, Casting DBNull and You (Alan Northam)
Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C# (Shiva) – Some good suggestions in the comments section too.
LINQ to Life – The Game of Life via LINQ (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Link Building 101 with ASP.NET MVC (Derik Whittaker)
ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration Walkthrough (Joe Cartano)
Happy Rendering Trails with IE8 (Bil Simser)
Google Releases Contact API (Brad Linder)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 6, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 155 – Dueling Conference Edition (Harry Pierson)
The Morning Brew #48 (Chris Alcock)
LINKBLOG for March 6, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – March 6, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day

Business Process Management (BPM) is a Team Sport: Play it to Win!: Andrew Spanyi: Books

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Daily Bits – March 6, 2008

This should be entitled Daily Silverlight Bits today. There’s a little IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and a couple of other tidbits thrown in for good measure.

Silverlight

Silverlight 2.0 Video Tutorials (Dan Wahlin)
Silverlight’s XamlWriter! (mehrantoosi)
Xap! App! Pow! Packaging and Application Startup in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 – Part 1 and Part 2 (Pete Brown)
Live From the MIX08 Keynote in Vegas (Jeff Barnes) – Great outline of the keynote contents.
Download Links for MIX08 Announcements (Tim Sneath)
Silverlight 2 Videos and Tutorials Available (Jesse Liberty)
Dynamic Silverlight Part 1: Hello, World! (John Lam)
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Control Samples (Kathy Kam)
Silverlight 2 Controls (Brad Abrams)
Setting Up Silverlight 2 Remote Debugging on Mac OS X (Dennis Dietrich)
MIX08 Key Messages, Announcements, Software, and Keynote (Sam Gentile)
Installation Tips For Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (Bradley B.)
Deep Zoom (Seadragon) Silverlight 2 MultiScaleImages at MIX (Scott Hanselman)

Not Silverlight

Apple Stabs Adobe in the Back and Microsoft Hit Multiple Internet Home Runs (Robert Scoble)
Odd string.Replace Chaining Behavior (Rick Strahl)
C# 4 Idea: Iterator Blocks and Parameter Checking (Jon Skeet)
Koders.com Does CodePlex and WTF IE8 Testing Movement #24 (Bil Simser)
Here Comes IE8 Beta 1 (Now Available) (Paul Thurrott)
Windows “Workstation” 2008 Clobbers Vista in Benchmark Testing (Randall Kennedy)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (Brad Abrams)
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screencast Tutorials (Scott “Not Evil” Hanselman)
Book Review: Pro C# w/.NET 3.0 (Rhonda Tipton)
Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable (Ira)
RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex (XML Journal)
Announcing the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 (SKS:EBE) Final Release! (Lawrence)
Translating the Web For the Entire World (Rob Knies)
Slipstream Versions of Vista (with SP1) For Several Languages Now Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Julie H. Cairn)
Developer Day Ireland (Ian Cooper)
Design The Code Trip Swag (Tim Heuer)
Strings Don’t Add Up (Timm)
Agile Planner – Release v1.0.0 (CodePlex) – Looks like a very useful iteration planning tool for Agile teams.
Scribd.Net – Release v1.0.0.10 (CodePlex)
Confessions (PowerShell) (Jeffrey Snover)
Web Slices Can Help Popularize Feed Syndication (Jon Udell)
12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online (Samuel Dean)

Link Collections

Link Listing – March 4, 2008 and Link Listing – March 5, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Interesting Finds: March 5, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 154 (Harry Pierson)
The Morning Brew #47 (Chris Alcock)
LINKBLOG for March 5, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
3 Links Today (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Programming C# 3.0 (Programming): Jesse Liberty,Donald Xie: Books

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