Announcements

• .NET Framework Library Source Code now available [Via: ScottGu ]
• Announcing ALT.NET Open Spaces Round 2 in Seattle [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

Code Camps

• Toronto Code Camp 2008 [Via: User Group Leader ]

Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 15, 2007 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• links for 2008-01-16 [Via: Scott ]
• Daily Bits - January 16, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• 2 Links Today (2008-01-16) [Via: Matt ]
• LINKBLOG for January 16, 2007 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
• Morning Coffee 138 [Via: Harry Pierson ]
• Links (1/16/2008) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• links for 2008-01-17 [Via: Scott ]
• Daily Bits - January 17, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Miscellaneous

• LIVE: The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit & Reader SDK [Via: llester ]
• Creating vCalendars programmatically in C# [Via: bradvin ]
• Advanced CI: integrating web applications [Via: bogardj ]
• DC ALT.NET Meeting January Wrapup [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

SubSonic

• SubSonic: 2.1 (Pakala) Preview, Part 2 [Via: Rob Conery ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 16, 2008 -- #171 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

• soapUI 2.0.1 [Via: Ole Matzura ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

ASP.NET

• More ASP.NET debugging with SOS [Via: Tess ]

Sharepoint

• Sahil Malik Shares the Point!! [Via: Sahil Malik ]

Code Camps

• Austin Code Camp 2008 scheduled for May 17, 2008 [Via: Jeffrey Palermo ]
• South Florida Code Camp - Saturday, February 2, 2008 [Via: jbarnes ]

Conferences

• CodeMash Podcasts — First Interviews from the Kalahari Resort posted [Via: Chris Woodruff ]
• Dallas TechFest 2008 [Via: Randy Walker ]

WCF

• Declaring XML Namespaces on a SyndicationFeed [Via: hyperthink.net ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Bits - January 15, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Links (1/15/2008) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]

Miscellaneous

• Continuous Integration: From Theory to Practice 2nd Edition [Via: cjlotz ]
• CI Factory RC3 1.0 Released [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
• TDD Is Also An Organizational Process [Via: Haacked ]
• SQLite on .NET - Get up and running in 3 minutes. [Via: Duncan ]
• Journal Issue 14 Now Online [Via: smguest ]
• The Five Browser Shortcuts Everyone Should Know [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• Making the switch to online apps [Via: Michael Eaton ]

Javascript

• jQuery 1.2.2 Released [Via: Dion Almaer ]

SubSonic

• SubSonic And MVC: Introducing Makai [Via: Rob Conery ]

Upcoming Events

• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

ASP.NET

• Basic Authentication against non-Windows Accounts in IIS/ASP.NET [Via: mtaulty ]

WPF

• How can I implement the Master-Detail pattern when binding to XLinq and XML? [Via: Bea ]

Code Camps

• Philly Code Camp 2008.1 - Links and Info [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Conferences

• Microsoft BI Conference: October 6th-8th 2008 [Via: btamblyn ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2007 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Bits - January 14, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• Monday (01-14-08) edition of the d’bug link farm [Via: Brian ]
• LINKBLOG for January 14, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• Why Your Manager Doesn’t Like To Throw Away Work (And You Do) [Via: Max Pool ]
• What's On Your Keychain, 2008 Edition [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• Performance, Joins and why you should always have a profiler [Via: Ayende Rahien ]
• Algorithms, joins and performance [Via: Ayende Rahien ]
• Griping about System.Net.Email.SmptClient/MailMessage [Via: Rick Strahl ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2008 -- #170 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Upcoming Events

• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

Announcements

• DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/15/2008 Reminder [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

ASP.NET

• HTTP Basic Authentication against Non-Windows Accounts in IIS/ASP.NET (Part 2 - The HTTP Module) [Via: www.leastprivilege.com ]
• HTTP Basic Authentication against Non-Windows Accounts in IIS/ASP.NET (Part 3 - Adding WCF Support) [Via: www.leastprivilege.com ]

WCF

• Advanced WCF Code Camp Slides and Code [Via: Sam Gentile ]

Link Collections

• links for 2008-01-12 [Via: Scott ]
• LINKBLOG for January 11, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• links for 2008-01-13 [Via: Scott ]
• Links of the Week #19 (week 2/2008) [Via: David Vidmar ]
• Weekly Link Post 24 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
• Links (1/13/2008) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]

Miscellaneous

• Immutable types: understand their benefits and use them [Via: Patrick Smacchia ]
• Domain Driven Design Cannot be Adequately Implemented without DI and AOP [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2008 -- #169 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

• Free Professional Diff Tool from SourceGear [Via: Ken Cox [MVP] ]

Upcoming Events

• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

Announcements

• Southeast Valley .NET User Group [Via: jguadagno ]

AJAX

• ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Applications in Visual Studio 2008 [Via: Harish Ranganathan ]
• JSON Syntax Checker Tool [Via: rrobbins ]

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 2.0 Interview Questions [Via: Mahesh Singh ]

Sharepoint

• SharePoint Connector for Confluence - How We Did It [Via: sptblog ]
• Unique ID in SharePoint list [Via: Martin Hinshelwood ]

Code Camps

• Seattle Code Camp v3: January 26 & 27 [Via: Brad Wilson ]
• Roanoke Code Camp 2008 - Call for Speakers [Via: Robin Edwards ]
• Iowa Code Camp!!! May 3rd, 2008 [Via: slickthought ]

SQL Server

• Printing Reporting Services 2005 Reports [Via: Jacob Proffitt ]

Link Collections

• links for 2008-01-10 [Via: Scott ]
• Links (1/10/2008) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• links for 2008-01-11 [Via: Scott ]
• Friday (01-11-08) edition of the d’bug link farm [Via: Brian ]
• Daily Bits - January 11, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• 6 Links Today (2008-01-11) [Via: Matt ]
• LINKBLOG for January 11, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• Dependency Injection Objection [Via: Jacob Proffitt ]
• Dependency Injection House Call [Via: Jacob Proffitt ]
• Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' [Via: brian ]
• Code Review Check List (or how to avoid the code review reaper..) [Via: zroiy ]
• QA DeathMatch [Via: mikedopp ]
• Tip for using Fiddler on localhost [Via: lorenh ]
• Free Hosting For 2 Years From Verio [Via: jstengel ]
• SimCity Source Code Released to the Wild! Let the ports begin... [Via: Bil Simser ]
• The waterfall which makes Agile pundits go blind [Via: FransBouma ]
• The truth which makes waterfall advocates go blind [Via: chadmyers ]

LINQ

• REST with LINQ to XML [Via: mehfuzh ]
• Don't fear the Linq Query... it's often a variation of a foreach loop [Via: jkimble ]

ASP.NET MVC

• AutoMockingContainer and ASP.NET MVC: Round 1 [Via: Kyle Baley ]

SubSonic

• SubSonic: Version 2.1 (Pakala) Preview: The New Query Tool [Via: Rob Conery ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2008 -- #168 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Visual Studio 2008

• HOW TO: Calculate the age (in years) of anything using extension methods [Via: MikeBosch ]
• Extensions Methods for Good and Evil and Mixins [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

ADO.NET

• Designing a Generic Database Layer [Via: Jesse Ezell ]
• ADO.NET Data Services - Sketchy Thoughts on Controlling Access [Via: mtaulty ]

Upcoming Events

• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

MSBuild

• Porting an NAnt Task to MSBuild [Via: Scott Dorman ]

WPF

• Lawson Client - Great looking WPF enterprise app [Via: llester ]
• DevComponents DotNetBar Suite for WPF [Via: jnak ]

WCF

• Advanced WCF Talk this Saturday at Philly Code Camp [Via: Sam Gentile ]
• What's In a WCF Binding, And What Can My Service Do Right Now? [Via: kaevans ]

Link Collections

• No Interesting Finds today [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Bits - January 9, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• 7 Links Today (2008-01-09) [Via: Matt ]
• New and Notable 216 [Via: Sam Gentile ]
• LINKBLOG for January 9, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• Mark Little on WS-* vs. REST [Via: gsusx ]
• Use Collection Instead of List for Public API [Via: Dave Donaldson ]
• No Matter What They Tell You, It's a People Problem [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• When deserialize(serialize(x)) != x [Via: dsimmons@microsoft.com ]

LINQ

• InfoQ Interview: Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL [Via: infoq.com ]
• ListItemCollection.SelectByValue, SelectByText [Via: danieb ]
• LINQ First() [Via: bmains ]

Community

• groop [Via: Javier G. Lozano ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 9, 2008 -- #167 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Upcoming Events

• Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Roanoke Valley .NET User Group
  Roanoke, VA
• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

ASP.NET

• Web Development Toolbox [Via: Chris Brandsma ]

WPF

• WPF/Xaml Web News - 2008/01/08 [Via: rrelyea ]

WCF

• Modify Message Content With WCF [Via: kaevans ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Bits - January 8, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• 4 Links Today (2008-01-08) [Via: Matt ]
• LINKBLOG for January 8, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
• Links (1/8/2007) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]

Miscellaneous

• .NET 3.5, Design by contract and Spec# Wrapup [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
• Using Microsoft Sync Framework in Visual Studio 2008 to Sync SQL Databases (SQL CE with SQL Server) [Via: Greg ]
• The Weekly Source Code 12 - Back in Black Edition [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
• Don't Pollute User Space [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

LINQ

• Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library) [Via: ScottGu ]
• Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 7: UNION, TOP, Subqueries (Bill Horst) [Via: VBTeam ]

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC: Strongly Typed ViewData Without A Code-Behind [Via: Troy Goode ]

Silverlight

• Why Silverlight 2.0 will Change How We Build Applications [Via: Psychlist1972 ]
• Silverlight Weather Widget [Via: dougturn ]

Visual Studio 2008

• The New TableAdapterManager in Visual Studio 2008 [Via: Beth Massi ]

ADO.NET

• Getting Started with ADO.NET Data Services [Via: David Hayden ]

Upcoming Events

• Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Roanoke Valley .NET User Group
  Roanoke, VA
• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

Code Camps

• Winnipeg Code Camp Site is Live! [Via: D'Arcy Lussier ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Monday (01-07-08) edition of the d’bug link farm [Via: Brian ]
• Blog Links [Via: mtaulty ]
• Daily Bits - January 7, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• 23 Links Today (2008-01-07) [Via: Matt ]
• Morning Coffee 135 [Via: Harry Pierson ]
• LINKBLOG for January 7, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• Interview: Patrick Smacchia discusses NDepend and Code Analysis [Via: infoq.com ]
• Are Developers Secret Santas Of The Information Age? [Via: Max Pool ]
• The Magpie Developer [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
• Differentiated User Experience (UX) [Via: Brian Noyes ]

LINQ

• Handling Default Values With LINQ to SQL [Via: stefan.sedich ]

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC: Using UserControls Usefully [Via: Rob Conery ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Monday for January 7, 2008 - #1 - Tutorial 11 - Drag Part 2 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Upcoming Events

• Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Roanoke Valley .NET User Group
  Roanoke, VA
• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

Announcements

• GhostDoc 2.1.3 Released [Via: WeigeltRo ]

Sharepoint

• SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names [Via: svdoever ]

WPF

• Introducing Podder: the WPF podcast player [Via: Josh Smith ]

Code Camps

• Seattle Code Camp v3.0 - January 26-27, 2008 [Via: Jason Haley ]

Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 6, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]
• Links of the Week #18 (week 1/2008) [Via: David Vidmar ]
• Links (1/6/2008) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
• Weekly Link Post 23 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
• Daily Bits - January 6, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Miscellaneous

• Tip: Overriding Core Object Methods [Via: Rob Conery ]
• .NET 3.5, Design by contract and Spec# Part 6 [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]

Silverlight

• Silverlight Cream for January 6, 2008 -- #165 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
• Silverlight Cream for January 6, 2007 - 2 -- #166 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

BizTalk

• New beginners BizTalk Book [Via: BizTalk Visionary ]

Upcoming Events

• Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Roanoke Valley .NET User Group
  Roanoke, VA
• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA

Sharepoint

• Implementing Consistent Navigation across Site Collections [Via: Sahil Malik ]

Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2007 [Via: Jason Haley ]
• Daily Bits - January 5, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
• LINKBLOG for January 5, 2008 [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

• Pipes and filters: The multi threaded version [Via: Ayende Rahien ]

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.Net MVC Membership Basics [Via: Troy Goode ]
• MVC Complaint: Checkboxes [Via: Troy Goode ]
• MVC Authentication and Errors [Via: Troy Goode ]
• CodeCampServer OSS project call for participation [Via: Jeffrey Palermo ]
• ASP.Net MVC: Authentication and Error Handling via Filters [Via: DotNet Kicks ]

Upcoming Events

• Thu, 10 Jan 2008 - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Roanoke Valley .NET User Group
  Roanoke, VA
• Sat, 12 Jan 2008 - Code Camp 2008.1

  Philly.NET
  DeVry University
  Fort Washingon, PA
• Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  DotNetNuke Upgrade Best Practices - Antonio Chagoury
  Vienna, VA
• Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - CodeMash v2.0.0.8

  Kalahari Lodge
  Sandusky, Ohio
• Sat, 26 Jan 2008 - Victoria .NET Code Camp 2008

  Victoria .NET Developers Association
  University of Victoria
• Wed, 20 Feb 2008 - Capital DotNetNuke User Group

  Building the DNN Map Module - Kevin Schreiner
  Vienna, VA
• Sat, 01 Mar 2008 - Roanoke Code Camp 2008

  Roanoke, VA