Links of the Week July 16th 2008
So many good articles and resources I have found over the last month or so. Here is a good sampling of them.
Less Than Dot Net – New site loaded with code snippets for common tasks in .NET. It is a community Wiki that anyone can post helpful code for everyone to make better applications.
Benchmarking the SortedList Classes – Kevin Hazzard does a good job benchmarking performance of the SortedList to the SortedList<K, V> classes.
Three New Master Page Tutorials – Scott Mitchell provides three good tutorials on extending the use of Master Pages.
Free SQL Server 2008 Book from Peter Debetta and MSPress.
Creating a Custom Label Control
Shrinking SQL Server Databases
LINQ to SQL vs. ADO.NET Comparison – Wriju’s Blog does it again. I have to say this is one of the best .NET related Blogs on the Internet.
Debugging ASP.NET on a Production Server – Another Must Read Blog for the ASP.NET Developer.
LINQ to Entities Preview -
Fast Loading JavaScript Files – Great explanation of a technique to drastically increase the rendering of web pages.
How to Allow Generic Controls in Web Pages – Looks like a very interesting way to get more control over how data is rendered in a list.
Using Set Operators in LINQ
Creating Virtual PC Differencing Disks – Gotta get more knowledge of building a VPC library.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Dealing with ReadOnly tables – We should start seeing more and more content about Dynamic Data Web Sites this Summer and Fall.
What is in the works for C# 4.0? – Maybe some productivity enhancements with the experience I hope.
SharePoint Infrastructure Updates -
Reasons Why IIS 7 Rocks! -
July Team System Power Tools – The Following Tools are installed with these updates:
- Command line tool (TFPT.EXE)
- Team Explorer IDE menu additions
- Build Notification tool
- TFS Best Practices Analyzer
- Process Template Editor
- Work Item Templates
- Custom check-in policies
- TFS Server Manager
- TFS Users tool
- Alert Editor
Is Your Site Ready for IE 8? – We all need to start checking and updating our sites to make them compliant.
Setting E-Mail Headers in .NET – Sending E-Mail is still one of the most common questions about programming in .NET.
10 WebCasts to get up to speed with SharePoint Development – Still got to spend more time in this area.
Virtual Earth Development Center – Always seems there are new updates to the Virtual Earth API and capabilities.
50 jQuery Examples – I am really wanting a day to sit down and get started with jQuery.
Entity Framework Bag – This is a framework for exchanging data between the Entity Framework and WCF services.
A Mort By Any Other Name – Why is VB so beat upon?
I still have more to post, so look for another one before Sunday morning.