Christopher Steen

Link Listing - April 17, 2008

Sharepoint

• Logging exceptions to the SharePoint Trace Log (Diagnostic Logging) [Via: dwollerman ]
• Using an Extension Method to remove a Web Part from the Gallery [Via: Corey's .NET Tip of the Day ]
• Creating Features by building a Virtual Site [Via: weerda ]
• SharePoint for Developers Content [Via: gduthie ]

WPF

• Creating a Horizontal GridSplitter in WPF - for real [Via: shebert ]

Code Camps

• NoVa CodeCamp 2008.01 Speakers and Registration [Via: Jeff Schoolcraft ]
• Philly .Net Code Camp 2008.2 Call for Speakers [Via: Steve ]
• I Love Code Camps! [Via: gduthie ]

SQL Server

• Automatically Create Install Scripts with Sql Server [Via: Andrew den Hertog ]

Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #65 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
• Daily Find #51 [Via: Tim ]
• HtmlControlWapper Javascript [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Team System Link Love #7 [Via: Steve ]
• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Dew Drop - April 16, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Interesting Finds: April 17, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Dew Drop - April 17, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• LINKBLOG for April 17, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• Links (4/17/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• A Gentle Introduction to Mocking [Via: scott ]

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview [Via: ScottGu ]
• ASP.NET MVC Preview of a Preview [Via: Haacked ]

Silverlight

• My "Digg Mashup" part 2 - laying your project out [Via: Jose Fajardo ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 17 May 2008 - NoVa Code Camp

  Reston, VA

Link Listing - April 14, 2008

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available [Via: ScottGu ]
• Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data into Context [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Code Camps

• Austin Code Camp Call for Speakers, May 17, 2008 [Via: Jeffrey Palermo ]
• Silverlight Chat Application for CMAP Code Camp [Via: Pete.Brown ]
• CMAP Code Camp [Via: vcsjones ]
• CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers [Via: podwysocki ]

Link Collections

• Team System Link Love #5 [Via: Steve ]
• April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight [Via: ScottGu ]
• Team System Link Love #6 [Via: Steve ]
• Interesting Finds: 2008.04.14 [Via: gOODiDEA ]
• Interesting Finds: April 14, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]

Miscellaneous

• Following Principles [Via: scott ]
• Packing Light for Travel with Power and Geek Style [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
• From the Forums: Disappearing Dialog Boxes and Windows [Via: Steve ]
• The Weekly Source Code 23 - Big Solution Edition [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
• National response to hazards and Identity Management [Via: Anil John ]

Javascript

• Applying Matt Galvin’s “XP-style” Skin to YUI TabView [Via: Eric Miraglia ]

ASP.NET MVC

• Upcoming Changes In Routing [Via: Haacked ]
• jQuery and the ConventionController [Via: Kyle Baley ]
• MVC: Unit testing controller actions that use TempData [Via: Eilon ]

Community

• Tips on Starting a User Group [Via: Frank ]
• Wally McClure Coming to the Southern Maryland .NET User Group [Via: Frank ]
• Project Manager needed for CodeCampServer open source project [Via: Jeffrey Palermo ]

Silverlight

• My "Digg Mashup" that taught me so much about Silverlight 2.0 beta - part 1 [Via: Jose Fajardo ]
• Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2008 # 251 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Virtual Earth

• Virtual Earth NEW & IMPROVED! [Via: virtualearth4gov ]

ADO.NET

• Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services to Ship with VS 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 [Via: Dan Maharry ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 17 May 2008 - NoVa Code Camp

  Reston, VA

Link Listing - April 6, 2008

ASP.NET

• Client Side Templating with jQuery [Via: Rick Strahl ]

WPF

• Unwanted Multiple ClientBin Sub Folders in Web Site with Links to Silverlight Application [Via: Karl Shifflett ]

Code Camps

• CMAP Code Camp Next Week [Via: Pete.Brown ]
• Twin Cities Code Camp Comes To An End... [Via: D'Arcy Lussier ]

Conferences

• OpenForce 08 DotNetNuke Conference, Call for speakers [Via: Chris Hammond ]

SQL Server

• Fragmentation Station - Stop #8 - Hands On Experience [Via: chad ]
• Custom Index Defrag / Rebuild Procedures [Via: chad ]
• Partitioning Data for Query Performance - Where's the benefit? [Via: chad ]
• GROUP BY, HAVING, SUM, AVG, and COUNT(*) [Via: KenDowns ]

WCF

• WCF Security Guidance from P&P [Via: Keith Brown ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 3, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2008 - Early Edition [Via: Jason Haley ]
• New and Notable 231 [Via: Sam Gentile ]
• Dew Drop - April 5, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• LINKBLOG for April 5, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• LINKBLOG for April 6, 2008 (small edition) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• Links Today (2008-04-06) [Via: Matt ]
• Weekly Link Post 36 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
• Links of the Week #31 (week 14/2008) [Via: David Vidmar ]
• Links (4/6/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• UI-First Software Development [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• MSF for CMMI Process Template v4.0 to v4.2 Differences [Via: Steve ]
• .NET Debugging Demos Lab 7: Memory Leak - Review [Via: Tess ]
• Adventures in F# - F# 101 Part 7 (Creating Types) [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
• DotNetOpenId 1.0 released, 2.0 beta also released [Via: David Christiansen ]
• Choosing a UI Pattern (MVC, MVP, and ASP.Net MVC) [Via: Greg Galipeau ]
• .NET Performance Issue: What if I suspect that my performance problem is in SQL server? [Via: Tess ]
• Unity IoC and ASP.NET MVC Framework Screencast [Via: David Hayden ]
• Identity Field, Equality and Hash Code [Via: NHibernate's Answers ]
• Wrapping up nHibernate in repositories [Via: pvanooijen ]
• The Shortcomings of Windows 2008 Server Core [Via: Gary Pronych ]
• Setting up Subversion on Windows [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• Wanted - Computer Systems Engineer Identity Management [Via: Anil John ]
• How to setup a new solution [Via: NHibernate's Answers ]
• Eager loading aggregate with many child collections [Via: NHibernate's Answers ]
• Help Name Our Website [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

LINQ

• Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 8 [Via: Ian Cooper ]

Community

• Geek Happy Hour in Raleigh, NC [Via: BradA ]
• Get the most from YOUR User Group [Via: Robin Edwards ]
• Volunteer Dev Work = Safe Drinking Water in Africa [Via: Gérald Danais ]

Silverlight

• Simple Xaml Drop Shadows in Silverlight 2 [Via: Pete.Brown ]
• Silverlight Cream for April 3, 2008 -- #243 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
• Using Silverlight 2 ItemsControl Templates [Via: dwahlin ]
• Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls [Via: ScottGu ]
• Silverlight Cream for April 4, 2008 -- #244 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Visual Studio 2008

• How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required? [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 12 Apr 2008 - CMAP Code Camp 2008 Spring Edition

  Columbia, MD
• Sat, 17 May 2008 - NoVa Code Camp

  Reston, VA

Link Listing - April 3, 2008

ASP.NET

• How to set an IIS Application or AppPool to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than 2.0 [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

WPF

• Animating Images in a 3D ItemsControl [Via: Josh Smith ]
• WPF Business Application Series Part 3 of n - Business Object Declarative Programming; How To Implement Object Validation & Logging [Via: Karl Shifflett ]
• Interactive Animated 2D Elements in a 3D ItemsControl [Via: Josh Smith ]

Code Camps

• West Michigan Day of .NET [Via: Brian H. Prince ]
• Day of .NET in Central Ohio - April 19, 2008, at The Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH (off exit 50 on I-71). [Via: Gautam ]

WCF

• Why choose WCF for REST? [Via: DotNetInterop ]

Link Collections

• Links of the Week #30 (week 13/2008) [Via: David Vidmar ]
• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Find #49 [Via: Tim ]
• Concentrated Codesqueeze: March 2008 [Via: Max Pool ]
• The Morning Brew #64 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
• Interesting Finds: April 2, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Dew Drop - April 2, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Daily Find #50 [Via: Tim ]
• LINKBLOG for April 2, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]

Miscellaneous

• Questions about .net Exceptions [Via: Tess ]
• Boggle, Anyone? [Via: Scott Mitchell ]
• IronPython Studio 1.0 released with both Isolated and (Visual Studio) Integrated versions [Via: Greg ]
• LightReader - my foray into the world of open source software development [Via: Michael Eaton ]
• Testing Old Code Is Hard [Via: scott ]
• Brownfield Application Development in .NET [Via: Kyle Baley ]

Javascript

• Helpful JavaScript Date Operations [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• Help Debug Firebug [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• Working with Events, part 1 [Via: Karl ]

Mono

• Mono 1.9 Released [Via: Mono Project (mono@novell.com) ]

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC: How Do I Prevent Exposing a Public Method on a Controller? [Via: Troy Goode ]
• Setting up authentication in asp.net MVC [Via: Justin Etheredge ]
• MVC: How Do I RedirectToAction While Passing a Parameter? [Via: Troy Goode ]
• MVC: Action Filter for Handling Errors [Via: Troy Goode ]
• MVC: Membership Starter Kit [Via: Troy Goode ]

Community

• See what happens when geeks socialize? [Via: Michael Eaton ]

Silverlight

• Unit Testing with Silverlight [Via: ScottGu ]
• Silverlight Cream for April 2, 2008 -- #242 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Web

• Orbius is in Preview Mode! [Via: Andrew Schwam ]
• Two CSS vertical menu with show/hide effects [Via: Antonio ]

Visual Studio 2008

• New in Visual Studio 2008 [Via: Gaurav Taneja ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 12 Apr 2008 - CMAP Code Camp 2008 Spring Edition

  Columbia, MD
• Sat, 17 May 2008 - NoVa Code Camp

  Reston, VA

Link Listing - March 31, 2008

ASP.NET

• How to print the current row number in an ASP.NET Repeater control [Via: Fritz Onion ]

Sharepoint

• Announcing the release of SPRSS [Via: Sahil Malik ]

Code Camps

• Links from NoVa Code Camp Silverlight Talk [Via: Frank ]
• NOVA Code Camp Introducing Silverlight Slide Deck [Via: Frank ]
• Next Richmond Code Camp [Via: Kevin Jones ]
• Atlanta Code Camp 2008 [Via: Lou Vega ]
• First NoVa CodeCamp South a Success [Via: Jeff Schoolcraft ]
• Speaking at MOSS Camp in St. Louis... [Via: MOSSLover ]

SQL Server

• SSD and SQL - SQLIO performance [Via: Chad Boyd ]
• The JOIN is the Cornerstone of Powerful Queries [Via: KenDowns ]
• Geek City: Nonclustered Index Keys [Via: Kalen Delaney ]
• Partitioning Data for Query Performance - Where's the benefit? [Via: Chad Boyd ]
• How the SQL UNION Affects Table Design [Via: KenDowns ]

Link Collections

• Dew Drop - March 26, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Boston Area Special April Geek Event [Via: Jason Haley ]
• LINKBLOG for March 29, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• Interesting Finds: March 30, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Dew Drop - March 30, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Weekly Link Post 35 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Dew Drop - March 31, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• LINKBLOG for March 31, 2008 [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• Daily Find #48 [Via: Tim ]
• Reflector Add-in Starter Kit (C#) [Via: Jason Haley ]

Miscellaneous

• Using Information Cards in ASMX Web Services [Via: Dominick Baier ]
• Hibernating Rhinos #8 - Going Distributed & Building our own Bus [Via: Ayende Rahien ]
• Authentication, PKI and SAML [Via: Anil John ]
• What's Wrong With This Code (#19) [Via: scott ]
• XUnit.net RC2 Released [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
• 10 Guerilla Airline Travel Tips for the Geek-Minded Person [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Javascript

• JavaScript is Inevitable ! [Via: JoeStagner ]

LINQ

• Custom Aggregations In LINQ [Via: scott ]
• REST to collection builder using LINQ to XML [Via: mehfuzh ]

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC: Intercepting Controller and HandleUnknownException [Via: jonsayce ]
• ASP.Net MVC - MvcContrib - We need your opinion! [Via: Eric Hexter ]
• MVC: Locking the RouteCollection [Via: Eilon ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2008 -- #240 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
• Silverlight Charts and Graphs - with Source Code [Via: Pete.Brown ]
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2008 -- #241 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

ADO.NET

• NHibernate Compatible Shared Hosts [Via: Brendan Kowitz ]
• NHibernate 2.0 Alpha is out! [Via: Ayende Rahien ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 12 Apr 2008 - CMAP Code Camp 2008 Spring Edition

  Columbia, MD
• Sat, 17 May 2008 - NoVa Code Camp

  Reston, VA