Links of the Week August 2 2008
Another week of great resources for the .NET developer to take in. Amazing how many are out there. I tried to do some more organizing again, I hope it helps you out.
Twitter Clients – They work great till the Fail Whale surfaces!
SharePoint Governance Part 1 – Despite what he says, setting up SharePoint is not simple it takes great care and attention or you are starting over!
Windows Vista Performance Tuning
David S. Platt’s Blog – Why Software Sucks baby!
Using the using statement with a method – Cool trick, I never knew you were there!
Getting the user’s Country from the Browser
Visual Studio
New Things in Visual Studio 2008 – A little older, but a great reference.
An Opposing View of Using Regions – Hmmmm
Regionorate – A Region Tool, cool!
Roy Osherove’s Tools – Roy has some great stuff, all .NET dev should have at least the Regular Expression tools installed.
Visual Studio Service Pack 1 beta list of fixes and release notes – Any moment now we can remove the Beta!
Visual Studio TFS Setup – I think I am going to be installing a TFS this weekend.
User Interface
AJAX Browser History Control – So glad this is available now!
ASP.NET AJAX Source Code – Great book, glad to see the source code.
Getting the DataItem in the ListView – Why oh why is it that much different? Thanks Peter!
44 Silverlight Videos – Didn’t I already do this list?
Simple CSS Tricks – Oh how I want to be really good with CSS
Entity Framework
Overloading the GetObjectStateEntries
So you Want to nHibernate – Not EF, but a good read on the overall topic.
How to Review an nHibernate Application – Ayende Goes over how to review an nHibernate application, good read on doing data related code reviews.
GUIDs as Primary Keys
The Cost of GUIDs as Primary Keys – Old article, but has some great information.
GUID or Int Primary Key
Int Identity vs GUID
Environmental Concerns about the use of GUIDs – Yes even the environmentalist are involved!
INT vs GUID as Table Primary Key
Architecture
The Onion Architecture part 1 and part 2 – Jeffery Palermo discusses a new paradigm in describing modern application architecture.
Software Patterns – Funny, most of these I have been using for a while and it seems there are formal names for the things I normally do!
Studying Databinding Techniques from a Performance Perspective
Scaling Strategies in ASP.NET – Link to an MSDN article and a tool to analyze your site.
Scaling Strategies for ASP.NET Applications – Of course the MSDN article from above.
Principles of OOD
Do One Thing – Curly’s Law