Long list today because I skipped the weekend post. I was busy at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came out to my S#arp Architecture talk, especially Nick and Sara.
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# String.Empty Example and Issues (Sam Allen)
- C# “” better than string.Empty? (Dave M. Bush)
- NHibernate Mapping – <one-to-one/> and NHibernate Mapping – <join/> (Oren Eini)
- More on the lock-free stack/queue: memory fences (Julian M. Bucknall
) - LINQ to Z3 – Theorem Solving on Steroids – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
- Extension Methods in C#: cool but at what cost? (Christopher Diggins)
- Introduction to HealthvaultDevelopment #11: Data filtering (Eric Gunnerson)
- C# Regions are not Useful? Give me a Break (Dave Schinkel)
- F# Basics – Infix Operators (Jason Olson)
- How does C# Lambda expressions work? (Fredrik Eriksson)
- Keep Your IQueryable In Check (Justin Etheredge)
- The sorry tale of the Visual Studio Web Site (Mike Hadlow)
- Developing Surface Applications (Luis Cabrera)
- How Relationships are Modeled in "MSchema" (Shawn Wildermuth)
Silverlight / WPF
- .Net RIA Services and Multi-table Joins (Bob Baker)
- View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
- A WPF Countdown Timer in PowerShell 2.0 (Joel Bennett)
- Some facts about Silverlight 3 and where it’s going (Peter Bromberg)
- Navigation system in WPF (Lester Lobo)
- Silverlight Layouts Part 1 (Charlie Calvert)
- Silverlight 3 Out of Browser – Quick Rant and It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors… (Jose Fajardo)
- Cracking an XPS in WPF and WPF Quick Tip: Converters as MarkupExtensions (Josh Twist)
- Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix! (Sunshine)
- WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results (Now uses AppDomain) and WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours (Sacha Barber)
- Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications with Cached Extensions (Mike Taulty)
- SuperPreview with Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
- View Model Pattern with .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
Web Development
- Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
- ASP.NET Session State shared between IE Tabs and IE8 (Harish Ranganathan)
- Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
- JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec (Elijah Manor)
- ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
- The performance implications of the expression tree-based ActionLink helper and How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
- Native JSON Parsing: What does it mean? (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
- OpenRasta, or “How to speak REST” (Kyle Baley)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- "Don’t be a plumber" is horrible advice. (Leon Gersing)
- What do I expect from guidance? and Repository is the new Singleton and Where is the ROI? (Oren Eini)
- The Agility Cycle – Part 1 (Brad Appleton)
- Put Performance Concerns Into Perspective and Gotta Love Refactoring (Davy Brion)
- Decoupling Workflow And Forms With An Application Controller (Derick Bailey)
- First Order Agile Scaling and The Software Requirements Balancing Act (Mike Cottmeyer)
- AJAX Architectures Condensed (Dino Esposito)
- Leader vs. Ruler: Which One Are You? (Jurgen Appelo)
- Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish (Justin Etheredge)
- Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- F#: Refactoring that little twitter application into objects and I don’t have time not to test! and Coding: Applying levels of abstraction (Mark Needham)
- 10 ways to reduce cost of software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
- Saga Persistence and Event-Driven Architectures (Udi Dahan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- This Week on C9: Office 2010, PowerShell for OpenXML, and would you help a robot (Brian Keller)
- Another Video Blog (Sara Chipps)
- ViewModel (MVVM) in Raw Silverlight 2 (Erik Mork)
- CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick (Chris Sells)
- Herding Code 43: Javier Lozano on the "M" in MVC (Jon Galloway)
- deCast – Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight (Rob Bagby)
- CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer (Rockford Lhotka)
- Major Nelson Show #316 : Lode Runner and photo editing laptops (Larry Hryb)
Community / Events
- Microsoft Announces "OfficePalooza" Two Week Contest Event for VBA Office Programmers (Blake Handler)
- Virtual ALT.NET Meeting about S#arp Architecture (Chad Myers)
- Philly .NET Code Camp Notes (Erik Peterson)
- Code Camp 2009.1 – Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
Database
- C Style operators in SQL Server 2008 (Darrel Carver)
- The Relational Model (Ken Downs)
- SQLAuthority News – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 and SQLAuthority Book Review – Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Mobile 6.5 coming May 11, WM 6.5 phones not so much (Brad Linder)
- SharePoint sheds the “Office” label with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- Google Pushing Chrome to Internet Explorer Users (Keith Elder)
- There is a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert when editing your wiki? – #018 and You can enlarge the wiki text area – #019 (Sara Ford)
- New Windows Live Mobile Client and FeedMe: An RSS/Podcast Client for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
- Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN (Scott Hanselman)
- Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality (Rhonda Tipton)
- Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5 (Lee Mathews)
- Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
- Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Five: Reification (Eric Lippert)
More Link Collections
- LINKBLOG for April 17, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 19, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
- Interesting Finds: April 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #330 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2009 — #573 and Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2009 — #574 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Links #49 (Grant Palin)
- SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 18 (Denis Gobo)
- Squeezed Links: April 2009 (Max Pool)
- New and Notable 313 (Sam Gentile
) - Weekly Link Post 90 (Rhonda Tipton)
- CloudNews for April 17th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Book of the Day
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Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0: Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie: Books
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