Link Listing - March 8, 2009

by csteen 8. March 2009 16:01

Today

Monday
Mar 09 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Office - Downers Grove, 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300 , Downers Grove , IL, 60515
Monday
Mar 09 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Office - Downers Grove, 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300 , Downers Grove , IL, 60515
Monday
Mar 09 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300, Downers Grove, IL, 60515
Monday
Mar 09 2009

AITP Windy City Chapter Meeting
3224 Algonquin Road, Rolling Meadows, IL, 60008
Monday
Mar 09 2009

Fort Smith .NET User Group March Meeting - John Teague - jQuery: The Deep End
4001 Planters Road, Fort Smith, AR, 72908
Monday
Mar 09 2009

LINQ to SQL in N-Tier applications
44423 Airport Road #205, California, MD, 20619
Monday
Mar 09 2009

VTdotNET: FAQ with the Microsoft Guys
40 IDX Drive, South Burlington, VT, 054037771
Monday
Mar 09 2009

Project management using Agile
170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758

Tomorrow

Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Burlington VT
30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT, 05403
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
13101 Jefferson Davis Highway, Chester, VA, 23831
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS, 39202
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
EdFinancial, 120 North Seven Oaks Dr. , Knoxville , TN, 37922
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Office- Kansas City, 10801 Mastin Blvd, Suite 620 , Overland Park , KS, 66210
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft,10801 Mastin Blvd., Suite 620, Overland Park , KS, 66210
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
9606 N. Mopac, Suite 200, Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

A Path to Automated Testing
922 East Emma Avenue, Springdale, AR, 72764
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Capital Region SharePoint User Group
6177 Executive Bouleveard, Rockville, MD, 20852
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Capital Area SharePoint User Group March 2009 Meeting
6177 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD, 20852
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Hampton Roads .NET Users Group
510 Independence Pkwy, Chesapeake, VA, 23320
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

.Net Users of Ft. Waye
1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200, Ft. Wayne, IN, 46825
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Introduction to the Silverlight Toolkit
180 Dunbarton Drive , Florence, SC, 29501
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

WNC .NET Developers Guild - March 2009
19 Walden Drive, Arden, NC, 28704
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northern NJ .NET User Group - March Mtg.
4 Century Drive, Parsippany, NJ, 07054

Next Two Weeks

Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference
2929 N Central Ave, Ste. 140 , Phoenix, AZ, 85012
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

March 2009 Monthly Meeting
2703 SE Otis Corley Drive, Suite 1, Bentonville, AR, 72712
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Mid-Missouri .NET User's Group
UMHC Quarterdeck building, 2401 Lemone Industrial Blvd, Columbia, MO, 65101
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

SEVDNUG: Intro to C# 3.0 and WCF
325 E Elliot Rd, Suite 34, Chandler, AZ, 85225
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

RockNUG - Functional Programming in .NET
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
2801 Highway 280 S, Birmingham, AL, 35223
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Rochester NY
20 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY, 14623
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 500 E. 96th Street, Parkwood Business Park, Building Four, Suite 460 , Indianapolis , IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Microsoft BI Lunch N' Learn
210 E Trade Street, Suite C440, Charlotte, NC, 28202
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation, 500 E. 96th Street, Parkwood Business Park, Building Four, Suite 460 , Indianapolis , IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
500 E. 96th Street, Suite 460, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

IndyNDA Monthly Meeting
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

March Meeting
112 North Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

San Diego Cloud Computing user Group - March Meeting
12400 High Bluff Dr # 100, San Diego, CA, 92130
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Azure User Group March Meeting
12400 High Bluff Dr # 100, San Diego, CA, 92130
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Dallas .Net Users Group
MS Campus 7000 SH 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Monitoring Server
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Miramar - PowerShell User Group
2300 SW 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL, 33027
Friday
Mar 13 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA, 30004
Friday
Mar 13 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft, 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Two Corporate Centre, Suite 520 , Nashville , TN, 37067
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

Atlanta Code Camp
1000 University Center Lane, Lawrenceville, GA, 30043
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

SharePoint Saturday Boston
201 Jones Rd., Waltham, MA, 02451
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

DB And GUI Design Workshop - HAL-PC
4543 Post Oak Place Drive, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77078
Monday
Mar 16 2009

March Meeting
2911 Centenary Boulevard; Wright Building Room 103, Shreveport, LA, 71104
Monday
Mar 16 2009

CAMUG Monthly Meeting
7707 North Market St, North Canton, OH, 44721
Tuesday
Mar 17 2009

LA Azure user group meeting
2999 Overland Avenue # 205, Los angeles, CA, 90064
Tuesday
Mar 17 2009

Dan Rigsby speaks on RESTing on the Web with Wcf
Signal Learning 3840 Edison Lakes Parkway, Mishawaka, IN, 46545
Tuesday
Mar 17 2009

AITP Capitol City Chapter
1386 Toronto Road, Springfield, IL, 62712
Tuesday
Mar 17 2009

DFW Sharepoint Community meeting
7000 N. State Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Mar 18 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Hartford CT
690 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, CT, 06105
Wednesday
Mar 18 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Wednesday
Mar 18 2009

Introduction to Live Services and the Live Framework
2355 Technology Dr., West Valley, UT, 84119
Wednesday
Mar 18 2009

Workflow and DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Augusta ME
500 Civic Center Drive, Augusta, ME, 04339
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 7000 N. State Highway 161, Irving , TX, 75039
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
7000 N. State Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group (MCC)
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

First Meeting of the Memphis PASS Chapter
4775 American Way, Memphis, TN, 38118
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

Silverlight 2.0: Practical Business Applications
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

Microsoft Azure Services
2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA, 92706
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

SQL Server Indexing for the Client Developer
110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

MWITPG March Meeting
75 Technacenter Drive, Montgomery, AL, 36117
Thursday
Mar 19 2009

NOVA Connected Systems
12012 Sunset Hills Rd., Reston, VA, 20190
Friday
Mar 20 2009

ArcReady
8800 Lyra Drive, Columbus , OH, 43240
Friday
Mar 20 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
8800 Lyra Drive, Columbus , OH, 43240
Friday
Mar 20 2009

Developer Round Table - .NET Memory Managment
Saturday
Mar 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406
Monday
Mar 23 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Waltham MA
201 Jones Road, Waltham , MA, 02451
Monday
Mar 23 2009

ArcReady
200 East Randolph Drive , Chicago, IL, 60601
Monday
Mar 23 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
200 East Randolph Drive , Chicago , IL, 60601
Monday
Mar 23 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
200 East Randolph Drive , Chicago, IL, 60601
Monday
Mar 23 2009

Tim Heuer Silverlight 3
8045 N. Wickham Road, Melbourne, FL, 32940
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

ArcReady
2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway South, Houston, TX, 77042
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway South, Houston, TX, 77042
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

TechNet Events Unleashed
2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350, Houston, TX, 77042
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

JavaScript - Beyond the Curly Braces
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group Meeting
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, Independence, OH, 44130
Tuesday
Mar 24 2009

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group Meeting
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd; Lower Level, Independence, OH, 44131

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Link Listing - February 26, 2009

by csteen 26. February 2009 23:47

Podcasts

Recording of Sebastien Lambla @ E-VAN 25 February 2009 [Via: Jan Van Ryswyck ]

DNN

Change your default favicon in DotNetNuke [Via: Brian Scarbeau ]

WCF

A Gotcha Writing Messages [Via: Tomas Restrepo ]

Code Camps

4th Orlando Code Camp coming up [Via: Brian Scarbeau ]

SQL Server

SSIS Insert Statement Using an OLE DB Destination [Via: Jessica M. Moss ]

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC: Ignore requests to favicon.ico [Via: DigiMortal ]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Clean Code [Via: Jim Holmes ]
Friday Books - LINQ In Action [Via: Dave ]

Cloud Computing

Virtual Stress-free Testing in the Cloud [Via: AWS Editor ]
New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia [Via: AWS Editor ]

Development

Great UI: Clarity and Color on the Presentation Layer [Via: Mark Miller ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2009 -- #529 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Javascript

YUI 2.7.0 Released [Via: George Puckett ]
jQuery 1.3.2 Released [Via: John Resig ]

Link Collections

The Morning Brew #293 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Interesting Finds: February 26, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Dew Drop - February 26, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
New and Notable 295 [Via: Sam Gentile ]
LINKBLOG for February 26, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]
Links (2/26/2009) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
The Morning Brew #296 [Via: Chris Alcock ]

WPF

Using ContentControl3D and Panel3D in a ListBox [Via: Josh Smith ]
WPF Toolkit Webcast [Via: benko ]
Hands-On Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) for Silverlight and WPF [Via: Craig Shoemaker ]
Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM [Via: Bryant Likes ]
The Caliburn Beta is Live [Via: Rob Eisenberg ]

Misc

Scrum Equals Panic for Many Projects [Via: kevin ]
Quality Must Be Built In – It Cannot Be Added On [Via: Derick Bailey ]
Uninstalling the Clickonce Support for Firefox [Via: BradA ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

No Events

Tomorrow

Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Silverlight Firestarter
30 Isabella Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Online VSTO Training

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Mar 02 2009

Danbury Area Computer Society Monthly Meeting
Danbury Hospital Auditorium, Danbury, CT, CT, 06810
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

Designers & Developers SIG (D2SIG) - March
2000 W Sam Houston Pkwy S #350, Houston, TX, 77042
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

CMAP: DotNetNuke: CMS for the Masses
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

MSDN geekSpeak: jQuery and ASP.NET WebForms with Chris Brandsma
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting - Performance Management
832 Village Center Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, CO, 80919
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

North Dallas .NET Users Group
5601 Headquarters Drive, Plano, TX, 75024
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

North Dallas .NET Users Group
5601 Headquarters Drive, Plano, TX, 75024
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

SHDNUG - C# 3.0 Deep Dive
16616 Diana Lane, Houston, TX, 77062
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting
10100 Reading Rd, Evendale, OH, 45241
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Albany
26 Tech Valley Drive, East Greenbush, NY, 12061
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation-St. Louis, Three City Place Drive, Suite 1100 , St. Louis, MO, 63141
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation-St. Louis, Three City Place Drive, Suite 1100 , St. Louis, MO, 63141
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Federal and Military SharePoint Users Group - March Meeting
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20015
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Richmond .NET: DotNetNuke
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

NWA .NET Group Night at Fast Lane
Fast Lane Entertainment; 1117 N. Dixieland Street, Lowell, AR, 72745
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

LIUG March 5th Meeting – Suburban Roadshow, SQL CLR and Service Broker
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

InfoPath Form Services
8700 State Line Road; Suite 200, Leawood, KS, 66206
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Scenario based usage of the new features in DotNetNuke 5.0
8989 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL, 32824
Friday
Mar 06 2009

Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting
780 NW York Drive, Bend, OR, 97701
Saturday
Mar 07 2009

Roanoke Code Camp
3095 Colonial Ave SW, Roanoke, VA, 24015
Monday
Mar 09 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Office - Downers Grove, 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300 , Downers Grove , IL, 60515
Monday
Mar 09 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Office - Downers Grove, 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300 , Downers Grove , IL, 60515
Monday
Mar 09 2009

Fort Smith .NET User Group - March Meeting
4001 Planters Road, Fort Smith, AR, 72908
Monday
Mar 09 2009

LINQ to SQL in N-Tier applications
44423 Airport Road #205, California, MD, 20619
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Burlington VT
30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT, 05403
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS, 39202
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
13101 Jefferson Davis Highway, Chester, VA, 23831
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
EdFinancial, 120 North Seven Oaks Dr. , Knoxville , TN, 37922
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Office- Kansas City, 10801 Mastin Blvd, Suite 620 , Overland Park , KS, 66210
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft,10801 Mastin Blvd., Suite 620, Overland Park , KS, 66210
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

WNC .NET Developers Guild - March 2009
19 Walden Drive, Arden, NC, 28704
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Introduction to the Silverlight Toolkit
180 Dunbarton Drive , Florence, SC, 29501
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northern NJ .NET User Group - March Mtg.
4 Century Drive, Parsippany, NJ, 07054
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference
2929 N Central Ave, Ste. 140 , Phoenix, AZ, 85012
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Mid-Missouri .NET User's Group
UMHC Quarterdeck building, 2401 Lemone Industrial Blvd, Columbia, MO, 65101
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

RockNUG - Functional Programming in .NET
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
2801 Highway 280 S, Birmingham, AL, 35223
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Rochester NY
20 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY, 14623
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 500 E. 96th Street, Parkwood Business Park, Building Four, Suite 460 , Indianapolis , IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Microsoft BI Lunch N' Learn
210 E Trade Street, Suite C440, Charlotte, NC, 28202
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation, 500 E. 96th Street, Parkwood Business Park, Building Four, Suite 460 , Indianapolis , IN, 46240
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Dallas .Net Users Group
MS Campus 7000 SH 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Monitoring Server
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Miramar - PowerShell User Group
2300 SW 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL, 33027
Friday
Mar 13 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA, 30004
Friday
Mar 13 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft, 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Two Corporate Centre, Suite 520 , Nashville , TN, 37067
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

Atlanta Code Camp
1000 University Center Lane, Lawrenceville, GA, 30043
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

SharePoint Saturday Boston
201 Jones Rd., Waltham, MA, 02451
Saturday
Mar 14 2009

DB And GUI Design Workshop - HAL-PC
4543 Post Oak Place Drive, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77078

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Link Listing - February 25, 2009

by csteen 26. February 2009 00:38

Podcasts

Alan Stevens on Community 2.0 [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Episode 26: Discovering Azure SQL Services [Via: Deep Fried Bytes ]
Derik Whittaker on nHibernate [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling. [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
Elegant Code: Code Cast 22 – Distributed Agile [Via: Ade Miller ]
Podcast #42 [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
Doug Crockford [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Episode 27: Present and Future of the C# Language [Via: Deep Fried Bytes ]
Code Cast 23 – Jeremy Miller on StructureMap [Via: david-starr ]
Catching up with Pablo Castro [Via: dotnetrocks ]
ASP.NET Podcast Show #136 - Rachel Appel on Dynamic Data [Via: Wallym ]
DotNetNuke 5.0.1 Released DNNVoice Show #2 Released! [Via: Chris Hammond ]
Podcast #43 [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

DNN

DNNVoice Podcast Show 1, DNN 4.9.2, Profession and Site Redesign [Via: Chris Hammond ]
DotNetNuke PageFlow Module [Via: Rob Chartier ]
DNNVoice Podcast Show 2, DNN 5.0.1 Release, Being a good Community Member [Via: Chris Hammond ]

Code Camps

Richmod Code Camp registration is open! [Via: slennon ]
Richmond Code Camp 2009.1 [Via: Community Megaphone ]

ASP.NET MVC

Splitting DateTime - Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Book Reviews

Book: Concurrent Programming on Windows [Via: Matt ]

Silverlight

Fun with Silverlight Toolkit Charts [Via: rudi ]
Silverlight Cream for February 24, 2009 -- #527 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight Cream for February 25, 2009 -- #528 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

Info: Running WcfTestClient Tool in a PC without VS.Net 2008 [Via: gugonzar ]
WCF Test Harness: Release 1.1.1.1 [Via: chilberto ]
Ninject 2 Reaches Beta! [Via: Nate Kohari ]

Web

IE6 Warning - Stop Living In The Past - Get off of IE6 [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

WPF

Excedrin headache #3.5.40128.1: Using combo boxes with the WPF DataGrid [Via: Joe Morrison ]
Prism 2.0 is Live! [Via: Doug Finke ]
Introducing ContentControl3D [Via: Josh Smith ]

LINQ

100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository [Via: kazimanzurrashid ]
ForEach or not ForEach, that is the question [Via: Fabrice Marguerie ]

Misc

Getting started in speaking publicly - clear and concise presentations [Via: Kimberly Tripp ]
C# Dynamic Function Factory [Via: fdumlao ]
Adding Parallel Extensions to F# [Via: Matthew.Podwysocki ]
Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 [Via: scott ]
What Are The “Never Events” for Software Quality? [Via: scott ]
Craftsmanship, Quality, Dogma, and Pragmatism [Via: gduthie ]
Who's Your Coding Buddy? [Via: Jeff Atwood ]
Hallmarks of Good System Design [Via: mbratton ]
Functional C# – Fun With Folds [Via: Matthew.Podwysocki ]

Community

Tampa ASP.NET MVC Special Interest Group Forming [Via: David Hayden ]
Starting a User Group, Entry #3 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Downtown Seattle.Net User Group – March 11, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com [Via: james.kovacs ]
CMAP Main Meeting - Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm - DotNetNuke, CMS for the masses [Via: CMAP ]
Dev Teach Vancouver Speakers and Sessions Announced! [Via: D'Arcy Lussier ]
Minneapolis and Saint Louis: Build Your Skills: Best Practices for .NET Developers Events [Via: TwinCitiesITandDevEvents ]
Richmond Software Craftsmanship Group February 2009 [Via: Justin Etheredge ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Thursday
Feb 26 2009

NoDeNug MSDN Road Show
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19702
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Cloud Computing Bringing Cost Effective and Pragmatic Change to the Public Sector
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19711
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Augusta Developers Guild February Meeting
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30907
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group Inaugural Meeting
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

February BAND Gig - Tips and Techniques
1 College Circle, Bangor, ME, 04401
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

North Houston DNUG February Meeting
3200 College Park Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Pensacola SQL Server Users Group Meeting - MDX for SQL Programmers presented by Barry Ralston
130 East Government Street, Pensacola, FL, 32501
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Atlanta Alt.Net
603 N Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA, 30307

Tomorrow

No Events

Next Two Weeks

Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Silverlight Firestarter
30 Isabella Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Online VSTO Training
Monday
Mar 02 2009

Danbury Area Computer Society Monthly Meeting
Danbury Hospital Auditorium, Danbury, CT, CT, 06810
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

CMAP: DotNetNuke: CMS for the Masses
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

MSDN geekSpeak: jQuery and ASP.NET WebForms with Chris Brandsma
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting - Performance Management
832 Village Center Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, CO, 80919
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

North Dallas .NET Users Group
5601 Headquarters Drive, Plano, TX, 75024
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

North Dallas .NET Users Group
5601 Headquarters Drive, Plano, TX, 75024
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

SHDNUG - C# 3.0 Deep Dive
16616 Diana Lane, Houston, TX, 77062
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting
10100 Reading Rd, Evendale, OH, 45241
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Albany
26 Tech Valley Drive, East Greenbush, NY, 12061
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Federal and Military SharePoint Users Group - March Meeting
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20015
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Richmond .NET: DotNetNuke
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

NWA .NET Group Night at Fast Lane
Fast Lane Entertainment; 1117 N. Dixieland Street, Lowell, AR, 72745
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

LIUG March 5th Meeting – Suburban Roadshow, SQL CLR and Service Broker
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

InfoPath Form Services
8700 State Line Road; Suite 200, Leawood, KS, 66206
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Scenario based usage of the new features in DotNetNuke 5.0
8989 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL, 32824
Friday
Mar 06 2009

Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting
780 NW York Drive, Bend, OR, 97701
Saturday
Mar 07 2009

Roanoke Code Camp
3095 Colonial Ave SW, Roanoke, VA, 24015
Monday
Mar 09 2009

Fort Smith .NET User Group - March Meeting
4001 Planters Road, Fort Smith, AR, 72908
Monday
Mar 09 2009

LINQ to SQL in N-Tier applications
44423 Airport Road #205, California, MD, 20619
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Burlington VT
30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT, 05403
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS, 39202
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
13101 Jefferson Davis Highway, Chester, VA, 23831
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

ArcReady
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Events Unleashed
Microsoft Corporation, 9606 N. Mopac, Stonebridge Plaza, Suite 200 , Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

WNC .NET Developers Guild - March 2009
19 Walden Drive, Arden, NC, 28704
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Introduction to the Silverlight Toolkit
180 Dunbarton Drive , Florence, SC, 29501
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference
2929 N Central Ave, Ste. 140 , Phoenix, AZ, 85012
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Mid-Missouri .NET User's Group
UMHC Quarterdeck building, 2401 Lemone Industrial Blvd, Columbia, MO, 65101
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

RockNUG - Functional Programming in .NET
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
2801 Highway 280 S, Birmingham, AL, 35223
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Rochester NY
20 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY, 14623
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Microsoft BI Lunch N' Learn
210 E Trade Street, Suite C440, Charlotte, NC, 28202
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Miramar - PowerShell User Group
2300 SW 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL, 33027
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Monitoring Server
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 12 2009

Dallas .Net Users Group
MS Campus 7000 SH 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Friday
Mar 13 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Alpharetta, GA, 30004

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Link Listing - February 23, 2009

by csteen 23. February 2009 16:14

ASP.NET

ASP.NET ListView: Displaying Hierarchical Data [Via: Adam Pooler ]
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources [Via: Rachel Appel ]

Podcasts

Great Podcast: 13 Mistakes and 13 Brilliant Strokes [Via: dmarsh ]
Code Cast 22 – Distributed Agile [Via: david-starr ]
Hanselminutes Podcast 150 - Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
ASP.NET Podcast Show #135 - Development Methodologies as Religion [Via: Wallym ]

Code Camps

Austin Code Camp 09 Call For Speakers [Via: jcteague ]
Orlando Code Camp 2009 Call for Speakers and Registration [Via: David Hayden ]
Atlanta Code Camp [Via: Community Megaphone ]
New England Code Camp 11 [Via: Community Megaphone ]
CodeStock 2009 [Via: Community Megaphone ]

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC tips: Routing Engine to aid SEO / 301 Redirect / Tracking [Via: Shahed Khan ]

Book Reviews

Smart & Gets Things Done - Book Review [Via: Jim Duffy ]
Book review: LINQ in Action [Via: Jan Van Ryswyck ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2009 -- #526 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express RTW [Via: Greg ]

Javascript

Learning jQuery [Via: gduthie ]

Link Collections

Bookmarks for February 20th [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]
Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - February 21-22, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
Interesting Finds: February 22, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Links of the week #72 [Via: David Vidmar ]
LINKBLOG for February 22, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]
Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2009 -- #525 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
New and Notable 294 [Via: Sam Gentile ]
Links (2/22/2009) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
Weekly Link Post 82 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
Interesting Finds: February 23, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
The Morning Brew #292 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Dew Drop - February 23, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
LINKBLOG for February 23, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]

Web

Designing Good Web Forms [Via: gduthie ]
Managing SSL Transitions [Via: gduthie ]

WPF

Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Misc

Demos - Catching Up on Rich Clients Part 1 [Via: MikeOrmond ]
Handy Code: ThrowIfNull Extension Method [Via: David.Wynne ]
So You Think You're An Admin? [Via: Jacob ]
Mono 2.0 - .NET Tool/Add-in of the Year [Via: Miguel de Icaza ]
Fun with Folds [Via: podwysocki ]
The Functional Language Gateway Drug [Via: Haacked ]
Pull vs. Push models for UI updates [Via: Ayende Rahien ]
Reducing the cost of getting a stack trace [Via: Ayende Rahien ]
Mono on Android, update [Via: Miguel de Icaza ]
IronRuby ASP.NET MVC With Filters [Via: Haacked ]
Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 1 [Via: Javier G. Lozano ]
Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 [Via: Javier G. Lozano ]
Mapping Objects with AutoMapper [Via: scott ]
MSTest Digest #1 [Via: Steve ]
Fun with Twitter for Mix09 [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
MonoDevelop 2.0 Beta 1 [Via: Miguel de Icaza ]
Much Ado About Monads – List Edition [Via: podwysocki ]
Handycons 2 - another free hand drawn icon set [Via: Janko ]
Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types [Via: derick.bailey ]
Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]
3 talks you should watch [Via: James Avery ]

Community

NYC User Group: Silverlight Outside The Browser: Live Framework & Mesh Enabled Applications [Via: Juan Suero ]
MSDN Live Events Coming to a City Near You! [Via: Beaudreaux ]
Community Megaphone and UGSS [Via: gduthie ]
DC ALT.NET Meeting - 2/25/2009 - Advanced jQuery [Via: Matthew.Podwysocki ]
Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009 [Via: gduthie ]
Last Chance to Register for the MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow in Reston, VA [Via: gduthie ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

Getting the best out of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery
UC Davis Extension, Room 200A,Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St.,, Sacramento, CA, 95816
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, Cleveland, OH, 44131
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CapArea .NET - Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046

Tomorrow

Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

MSDN geekSpeak - .NET Access Control Service with Michele Leroux Bustamante
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Web 3.0
5240 S. 19th St, Lincoln, NE, 68512
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

RVSPUG: CorasWorks Workplace Suite
6624 Peters Creek Rd., Roanoke, VA, 24019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Frederick .NET UG Monthly Meeting
9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD, 21704
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

New York ALT.NET
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Geek Dinner with Sara Ford of Microsoft on 2/25/2009 in Hattiesburg, MS
3810 Hardy Street, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Front Range PHP Users Group Monthly Meeting
9475 Briar Village Point, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

CapArea Silverlight SIG: Developing a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182

Next Two Weeks

Thursday
Feb 26 2009

NoDeNug MSDN Road Show
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19702
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Cloud Computing Bringing Cost Effective and Pragmatic Change to the Public Sector
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19711
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group Inaugural Meeting
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Augusta Developers Guild February Meeting
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30907
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

February BAND Gig - Tips and Techniques
1 College Circle, Bangor, ME, 04401
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

North Houston DNUG February Meeting
3200 College Park Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Pensacola SQL Server Users Group Meeting - MDX for SQL Programmers presented by Barry Ralston
130 East Government Street, Pensacola, FL, 32501
Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Silverlight Firestarter
30 Isabella Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
Monday
Mar 02 2009

Danbury Area Computer Society Monthly Meeting
Danbury Hospital Auditorium, Danbury, CT, CT, 06810
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

IT Professional Association Meeting
835 Market Street Suite 700, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Tuesday
Mar 03 2009

CMAP: DotNetNuke: CMS for the Masses
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

MSDN geekSpeak: jQuery and ASP.NET WebForms with Chris Brandsma
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting - Performance Management
832 Village Center Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, CO, 80919
Wednesday
Mar 04 2009

March Meeting
10100 Reading Rd, Evendale, OH, 45241
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Albany
26 Tech Valley Drive, East Greenbush, NY, 12061
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Federal and Military SharePoint Users Group - March Meeting
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20015
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Richmond .NET: DotNetNuke
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

LIUG March 5th Meeting – Suburban Roadshow, SQL CLR and Service Broker
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

InfoPath Form Services
8700 State Line Road; Suite 200, Leawood, KS, 66206
Thursday
Mar 05 2009

Scenario based usage of the new features in DotNetNuke 5.0
8989 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL, 32824
Friday
Mar 06 2009

Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting
780 NW York Drive, Bend, OR, 97701
Saturday
Mar 07 2009

Roanoke Code Camp
3095 Colonial Ave SW, Roanoke, VA, 24015
Monday
Mar 09 2009

Fort Smith .NET User Group - March Meeting
4001 Planters Road, Fort Smith, AR, 72908
Monday
Mar 09 2009

LINQ to SQL in N-Tier applications
44423 Airport Road #205, California, MD, 20619
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

Northeast Roadshow - Burlington VT
30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT, 05403
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS, 39202
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
13101 Jefferson Davis Highway, Chester, VA, 23831
Tuesday
Mar 10 2009

WNC .NET Developers Guild - March 2009
19 Walden Drive, Arden, NC, 28704
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow
170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference
2929 N Central Ave, Ste. 140 , Phoenix, AZ, 85012
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

Mid-Missouri .NET User's Group
UMHC Quarterdeck building, 2401 Lemone Industrial Blvd, Columbia, MO, 65101
Wednesday
Mar 11 2009

RockNUG - Functional Programming in .NET
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850

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Link Listing - February 12, 2009

by csteen 12. February 2009 23:37

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Wire Format for Model Binding to Arrays, Lists, Collections, Dictionaries [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Podcasts

Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23 [Via: Hanselminutes ]
Podcast #41 [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

ASP.NET MVC

DallasDevCares – MVC Framework [Via: Chris Koenig ]

Cloud Computing

Windows Azure “How Do I” videos for developers recently released [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]
Windows Azure How Do I Videos [Via: jnak ]
The NYC Azure Cloud Computing Group meets again February 23, 2009 [Via: Juan Suero ]

Development

DDD: There Is No Database [Via: Casey Charlton ]
Structuring .NET Applications with Autofac IoC [Via: Rinat Abdullin ]
Object Thinking [Via: mo.khan ]
DDD : Command Query Separation as an Architectural Concept [Via: Casey Charlton ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2009 -- #514 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2009 -- #515 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

AutoMapper 0.2 released [Via: bogardj ]
Sketchbook for web designers [Via: Vladimir ]
20 Must-Have Free Windows Tools for Software Developers [Via: The Reddest ]

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 12, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
The Morning Brew #285 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Dew Drop - February 12, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
LINKBLOG for February 12, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]
The weekly SyncToBlog: #2 [Via: Eric Nelson ]
Links (2/12/2009) [Via: Steve Pietrek ]
The Morning Brew #286 [Via: Chris Alcock ]

Web

5 Great Online Color Palette selection and design tools [Via: Aaron ]
Mini jQuery Lab [Via: Elijah Manor ]

LINQ

An Extensive Examination of LINQ: An Introduction to LINQ [Via: 4 Guys From Rolla ]
More LINQ Optimizations [Via: scott ]
Using .Select() instead of foreach [Via: Josh Twist ]
LINQ: Grabbing a single element [Via: PSteele ]
Beyond LINQ: Sequence Generation in C# [Via: cmarinos ]
Why Would I Create A Custom LINQ Operator? [Via: scott ]

Misc

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go [Via: Justin Etheredge ]
Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes [Via: robconery ]
WSDL Imports without WSDL.exe [Via: Rick Strahl ]
Exposing ATOM feeds from your services – part II – customizing and extending the ATOM feed [Via: rob.bagby ]

Community

Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group Has New Leadership! [Via: Brian Genisio ]
Regional User Group and User Group Leaders on Twitter [Via: Frank La Vigne ]
Welcome to MVP TV! [Via: Jas Dhaliwal ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

No Events

Tomorrow

No Events

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Wade Wegner Presents Windows AZURE
320 E Jefferson, South Bend, IN, 46628
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Lubbock .NET User Group February Meeting
5502 58th St., Ste. 500 [Smooth Fusion], Lubbock, TX, 79414
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

DFW Connected Systems
7000 HWY 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Dallas Cloud Computing User Group
7000 state Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Intro to Search Engine Optimization with DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials SIG
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

MSDN Developer Conference
55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

An Afternoon of Asp.Net MVC with Headspring Systems
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Team System User Group - Deployment Strategies with Team Build
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Introduction to the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
211 East Devalcourt Street, Lafayette, LA, 70506
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

HRSSUG - Tips from the SharePoint Best Practices Conference
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Friday
Feb 20 2009

Developer Round Table Meeting
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

SharePoint Saturday New York
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Silverlight 2 Firestarter
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta
Speer Blvd. and Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80217
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Team System User Group - Building with MSBuild
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406
Monday
Feb 23 2009

HUNTUG Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CapArea .NET - Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

RVSPUG: Data Form Web Part
6624 Peters Creek Rd., Roanoke, VA, 24019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

New York ALT.NET
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Frederick .NET UG Monthly Meeting
9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD, 21704
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

CapArea Silverlight SIG: Developing a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19711
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group Inaugural Meeting
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Augusta Developers Guild February Meeting
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30907
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

North Houston DNUG February Meeting
3200 College Park Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Pensacola SQL Server Users Group Meeting - MDX for SQL Programmers presented by Barry Ralston
130 East Government Street, Pensacola, FL, 32501
Saturday
Feb 28 2009

Silverlight Firestarter
30 Isabella Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212

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Link Listing - February 11, 2009

by csteen 11. February 2009 14:34

ASP.NET

Encrypting or Decrypting the Configuration File [Via: bmains ]
Validation Groups Re-Explained, including Multiple Groups [Via: bmains ]

Code Camps

Calling all Speakers : Atlanta Code Camp [Via: glengordon ]
Indy Code Camp [Via: Community Megaphone ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2009 -- #513 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Moonlight 1.0 Release - Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 11, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Bookmarks for February 10th [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]
The Morning Brew #284 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Dew Drop - February 11, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
LINKBLOG for February 11, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]
AWS Links - Wednesday, February 11, 2009 [Via: AWS Editor ]

Misc

Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit confusion around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

VAN Meeting

Tomorrow

Thursday
Feb 12 2009

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Billings Users Group
112 North Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Rob Vettor
7000 Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Richmond SQL - Supporting RDBMS
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

BSDA
601 Beacon Pkwy Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008
201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02451

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Wade Wegner Presents Windows AZURE
320 E Jefferson, South Bend, IN, 46628
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Lubbock .NET User Group February Meeting
5502 58th St., Ste. 500 [Smooth Fusion], Lubbock, TX, 79414
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

DFW Connected Systems
7000 HWY 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Dallas Cloud Computing User Group
7000 state Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Intro to Search Engine Optimization with DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials SIG
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

MSDN Developer Conference
55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

An Afternoon of Asp.Net MVC with Headspring Systems
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Team System User Group - Deployment Strategies with Team Build
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Introduction to the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
211 East Devalcourt Street, Lafayette, LA, 70506
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

HRSSUG - Tips from the SharePoint Best Practices Conference
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Friday
Feb 20 2009

Developer Round Table Meeting
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Silverlight 2 Firestarter
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta
Speer Blvd. and Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80217
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

SharePoint Saturday New York
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Team System User Group - Building with MSBuild
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406
Monday
Feb 23 2009

HUNTUG Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CapArea .NET - Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

RVSPUG: Data Form Web Part
6624 Peters Creek Rd., Roanoke, VA, 24019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

New York ALT.NET
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Frederick .NET UG Monthly Meeting
9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD, 21704
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

CapArea Silverlight SIG: Developing a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19711
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group Inaugural Meeting
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Augusta Developers Guild February Meeting
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30907
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

North Houston DNUG February Meeting
3200 College Park Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77384

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Link Listing - February 10, 2009

by csteen 10. February 2009 16:24

Podcasts

Hanselman List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Code Camps

Pittsburgh Code Camp 2009 [Via: Community Megaphone ]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Mike Cohn X 2 [Via: wwagner ]

Cloud Computing

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing (MACC) User Group [Via: zxue ]
Azure Client based Applications [Via: domgreen ]

Development

Mocks vs. Stubs [Via: james.kovacs ]
Part One - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]
Part Two - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]
Part Three - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]
Reusable Build Scripts [Via: Scott Cowan ]
Getting CruiseControl.NET working with SVN over HTTPS [Via: Tony Rasa ]
Part Four - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]
Part Five - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]
Conclusion - A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” [Via: Chris Taylor ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 11 [Via: WebDevTools ]
Drag and Drop with Silverlight [Via: Brian Genisio ]
Silverlight - Error: Layout Cycle Detected and a ListBox that supports "Edit Mode" [Via: Andrew Schwam ]

Tools

SharpDevelop (aka #develop) 3.0 RTM’s [Via: Greg ]

Javascript

Free Chapter: “Advanced Techniques” from Nicholas C. Zakas’s Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 2nd ed. [Via: Eric Miraglia ]
Quick Tip: Prevent Animation Queue Buildup [Via: Brandon Aaron ]
In the Wild for January 26, 2009 [Via: YUI Team ]
Quick Tip: Add Easing to Your Animations [Via: Brandon Aaron ]
Slide Elements in Different Directions [Via: Karl Swedberg ]

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 10, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
The Morning Brew #283 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Flagged Links #33 [Via: Jason Bock ]
Dew Drop - February 10, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
Bookmarks for February 10th [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]
New and Notable 290 [Via: Sam Gentile ]
LINKBLOG for February 10, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]

Web

Outside my element: A CSS Trick [Via: karl ]
Functional/Acceptance Test Tools for Web Apps [Via: Mark Levison ]

WPF

XAML Power Toys 4.0 Released - Code Name MVVM [Via: Karl Shifflett ]

LINQ

LINQ and The Matrix – Introducing MLinq [Via: bart ]

Misc

Why is Great UI so hard to achieve? [Via: Mark Miller ]
Coding 4 Fun: Slide Tweet 0.1 [Via: dparys ]
Resolved Language Debates? [Via: Matthew.Podwysocki ]
On symbology and materialism [Via: bogardj ]
Due Diligence and Code Comments [Via: scott ]
Entropy in software [Via: bogardj ]

Community

Upcoming Pennsylvania Developer Events for Feb-Mar 09 [Via: Rachel Appel ]
DevDinnerOnDemand: Implementing Modern User Experiences with Expression Blend & Silverlight [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]
Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup was a great event! [Via: dmarsh ]
GiveCamp Dallas – We Are Microsoft [Via: Chris Koenig ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

Northwest Arkansas SQL User Group
2703 SE Otis Corley Drive, Bentonville, AR, 72712
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

iPhone Software Development
151 Powell Rd., Columbia, SC, 29203
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

RockNUG - Test-Driven Development
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

VAN Meeting

Tomorrow

Thursday
Feb 12 2009

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Billings Users Group
112 North Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Rob Vettor
7000 Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Richmond SQL - Supporting RDBMS
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

BSDA
601 Beacon Pkwy Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008
201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02451

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Wade Wegner Presents Windows AZURE
320 E Jefferson, South Bend, IN, 46628
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Lubbock .NET User Group February Meeting
5502 58th St., Ste. 500 [Smooth Fusion], Lubbock, TX, 79414
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

DFW Connected Systems
7000 HWY 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Dallas Cloud Computing User Group
7000 state Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Intro to Search Engine Optimization with DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials SIG
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

MSDN Developer Conference
55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

An Afternoon of Asp.Net MVC with Headspring Systems
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Team System User Group - Deployment Strategies with Team Build
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Introduction to the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
211 East Devalcourt Street, Lafayette, LA, 70506
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

HRSSUG - Tips from the SharePoint Best Practices Conference
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Friday
Feb 20 2009

Developer Round Table Meeting
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

SharePoint Saturday New York
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Silverlight 2 Firestarter
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta
Speer Blvd. and Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80217
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Team System User Group - Building with MSBuild
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406
Monday
Feb 23 2009

HUNTUG Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CapArea .NET - Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

RVSPUG: Data Form Web Part
6624 Peters Creek Rd., Roanoke, VA, 24019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

New York ALT.NET
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Frederick .NET UG Monthly Meeting
9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD, 21704
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

CapArea Silverlight SIG: Developing a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE, 19711
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group Inaugural Meeting
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Thursday
Feb 26 2009

North Houston DNUG February Meeting
3200 College Park Drive, The Woodlands, TX, 77384

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Link Listing - February 9, 2009

by csteen 9. February 2009 23:22

ASP.NET

Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSINQ [Via: scott ]

Podcasts

New Spaghetti Code Podcast: VSTS and TFS 2010 with Bill Maurer [Via: JAB ]

Code Camps

Winnipeg Code Camp – Sessions Posted [Via: D'Arcy Lussier ]
Code Camp 11 - “Developer Stimulus Package” [Via: joneil ]

ASP.NET MVC

Take Charge of Your Security [Via: Haacked ]

Cloud Computing

Azure Services Training Kit - February Update - Released [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]

Development

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques [Via: BrunoTerkaly ]
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID [Via: BrunoTerkaly ]
IofC on Azure [Via: Scott Watermasysk ]
Watching the Funq [Via: Scott Watermasysk ]
Domain Driven Design: Learning [Via: Artur Trosin ]

Silverlight

Drag and Drop in Silverlight 2 [Via: Shawn Wildermuth ]
Silverlight Cream for February 08, 2009 -- #511 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Source Code for Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form [Via: Silverlight Show ]
Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 -- #512 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

WIM2VHD – Convert Windows Installation WIM’s into Bootable/Sysprepped VHD’s [Via: Greg ]
EventHandler Extension Method [Via: Nate Kohari ]
TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes [Via: Jamie Cansdale ]

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 8, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Weekly Link Post 80 [Via: Rhonda Tipton ]
Interesting Finds: February 9, 2009 [Via: Jason Haley ]
Visual Studio Links #107 [Via: Darren Stokes ]
Dew Drop - February 9, 2009 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
LINKBLOG for February 9, 2009 [Via: AZuidhof ]

WPF

WPF Data Binding CheatSheet – Three pages of Data Binding data [Via: Greg ]
Creating a WPF Application With Prism v2 – Encapsulation Junction - What’s Your Function? [Via: hoarked ]

Misc

Microsoft Surface GIS Apps by Infostrat [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]
Recent Bootcamp Materials: Visual Studio.NET 2008 Tips, Tricks, and Toys [Via: Kevin G ]

Community

Upcoming tech events in Ann Arbor area [Via: dmarsh ]
Save the Date: March 11, 2009 – 1st Meeting of Seattle .Net User Group [Via: Jason Haley ]
Events This Week – February 9th, 2009 [Via: gduthie ]
DEVELOPER DINNER: What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Web Forms, AJAX, and JQuery)? [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Dean Saxe's discussion titled "Threat Modeling: P0wn Your System"
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30904
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group Meeting
922 East Emma Avenue, Room 228, Springdale, AR, 72764
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

PDANUG February 2009 Meeting
180 Dunbarton Dr., Florence, SC, 29501
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Huntsville VS.NET Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15b, 170, Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Agile Philly Feb. Meeting
180 Sheree Blvd. Suite 2000, Exton, PA, 19341
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

BUG.NET Meeting
601 Beacon Pkwy West Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Hampton Roads .NET Users Group
510 Indepedence Pkwy, Chesapeake, VA, 23320

Tomorrow

Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

Northwest Arkansas SQL User Group
2703 SE Otis Corley Drive, Bentonville, AR, 72712
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

iPhone Software Development
151 Powell Rd., Columbia, SC, 29203
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

RockNUG - Test-Driven Development
51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD, 20850
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

VAN Meeting

Next Two Weeks

Thursday
Feb 12 2009

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Billings Users Group
112 North Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Rob Vettor
7000 Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Richmond SQL - Supporting RDBMS
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

BSDA
601 Beacon Pkwy Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008
201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02451
Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Wade Wegner Presents Windows AZURE
320 E Jefferson, South Bend, IN, 46628
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Lubbock .NET User Group February Meeting
5502 58th St., Ste. 500 [Smooth Fusion], Lubbock, TX, 79414
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

DFW Connected Systems
7000 HWY 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Dallas Cloud Computing User Group
7000 state Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials SIG
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Intro to Search Engine Optimization with DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

MSDN Developer Conference
55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

An Afternoon of Asp.Net MVC with Headspring Systems
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Team System User Group - Deployment Strategies with Team Build
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Introduction to the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
211 East Devalcourt Street, Lafayette, LA, 70506
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

HRSSUG - Tips from the SharePoint Best Practices Conference
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462
Friday
Feb 20 2009

Developer Round Table Meeting
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

SharePoint Saturday New York
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Silverlight 2 Firestarter
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta
Speer Blvd. and Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80217
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Team System User Group - Building with MSBuild
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406
Monday
Feb 23 2009

HUNTUG Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Huntsville, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Client Technologies
12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA, 20190
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CapArea .NET - Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Feb 24 2009

CMAP .NET Essentials
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

RVSPUG: Data Form Web Part
6624 Peters Creek Rd., Roanoke, VA, 24019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

New York ALT.NET
1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

Frederick .NET UG Monthly Meeting
9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD, 21704
Wednesday
Feb 25 2009

CapArea Silverlight SIG: Developing a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182

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Link Listing - February 6, 2009

by csteen 7. February 2009 01:02

ASP.NET

The ASP.NET Diet Part 1 – Making a Thin Contact Form [Via: gduthie ]
Accessing the DropDownList Control's SelectedIndex or SelectedValue Properties Selects the First ListItem [Via: Scott Mitchell ]

WPF

WPF Toolkit January 2009 Release is out – DataGrid, DatePicker/Calendar v1’s released and Visual State Manager previewed [Via: Greg ]
Attached behaviours in WPF [Via: Ivan Towlson ]
6 Tips For Designers For Translating Your Comps Into XAML [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]
MVVM for WPF [Via: gduthie ]
WPF Printing Part 2 - Pagination [Via: The Tallest ]

Cloud Computing

BlobExplorer Now Supports Blob Metadata [Via: Richard Blewett ]

Podcasts

Code Cast 20 - Matt Heusser on Agile Testing [Via: david-starr ]
Developer Webcasts: ASP, Visual Studio Debugger, Team System, POSReady [Via: scottlum ]
ASP.NET Podcast Show 135 - Development Methodologies as Religion - MP3 Audio [Via: Wally McClure ]
Catching up with Rocky Lhotka [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Coding for Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Podcast #40 [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

Miscellaneous

Community Megaphone Feature Overview [Via: gduthie ]
Verbal Graffiti [Via: Steve Michelotti ]
Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
Quince UX Patterns Explorer [Via: gduthie ]
How To Twitter - First Steps and a Twitter Glossary [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
Embedding the Google Earth Plugin in Desktop Applications [Via: Mano Marks ]
C# 4.0 Optional Parameters [Via: Steve Michelotti ]
Using Fluent Interfaces [Via: Scott Cowan ]
Secure Programming With Static Analysis [Via: Jason Bock ]
The iCalendar validation project [Via: Jon Udell ]
Custom C# 3.0 LINQ Max Extension Method [Via: Steve Michelotti ]

Javascript

VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available [Via: Bertrand Le Roy ]

LINQ

Converting LINQ queries from query syntax to method/operator syntax [Via: Fabrice Marguerie ]

ASP.NET MVC

The MVC platform: handling errors [Via: luisabreu ]
IPrincipal (User) ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC for easier testing [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
Chapter 2 - Understanding Routing [Via: Latest Microsoft Blogs ]

Community

Frederick .NET User Group February Meeting [Via: John Blumenauer ]
MSDN Roadshow – Windows Client Technologies [Via: gduthie ]

Silverlight

Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 8: Client Storage [Via: Ken Cox ]
Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 -- #508 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Screencast: Live Mesh Video Player [Via: gduthie ]
Source Code for Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form Released [Via: Ken Cox ]
Silverlight Cream for February 06, 2009 -- #509 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Tools

LightSpeed 2.2 released [Via: Ivan Towlson ]
XDepend RC1 (NDepend for Java) is now available [Via: Patrick Smacchia ]

Visual Studio 2008

Code Snippet for Automatically Implemented Property [Via: Yanesh Tyagi ]

Book Reviews

Morning Dew Quick Review – ‘Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2’ by John Papa [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]
Book Review: Silverlight In Action [Via: John Papa ]
Friday Books - CSS: The Missing Manual [Via: Dave ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Saturday
Feb 07 2009

SharePoint Saturday Kansas City
8700 Stateline Rd, Suite 200, Leawood, KS, 66206

Tomorrow

No Events

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Feb 09 2009

Austin .Net Users Group Meeting
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200, Austin, TX, 78759
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Dean Saxe's discussion titled "Threat Modeling: P0wn Your System"
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA, 30904
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group Meeting
922 East Emma Avenue, Room 228, Springdale, AR, 72764
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

PDANUG February 2009 Meeting
180 Dunbarton Dr., Florence, SC, 29501
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Huntsville VS.NET Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15b, 170, Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Agile Philly Feb. Meeting
180 Sheree Blvd. Suite 2000, Exton, PA, 19341
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

BUG.NET Meeting
601 Beacon Pkwy West Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Hampton Roads .NET Users Group
510 Indepedence Pkwy, Chesapeake, VA, 23320
Wednesday
Feb 11 2009

Northwest Arkansas SQL User Group
2703 SE Otis Corley Drive, Bentonville, AR, 72712
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Billings Users Group
112 North Broadway, Billings, MT, 59101
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Rob Vettor
7000 Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

BSDA
601 Beacon Pkwy Suite 106, Birmingham, AL, 35209
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008
201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02451
Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Wade Wegner Presents Windows AZURE
320 E Jefferson, South Bend, IN, 46628
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Lubbock .NET User Group February Meeting
5502 58th St., Ste. 500 [Smooth Fusion], Lubbock, TX, 79414
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

DFW Connected Systems
7000 HWY 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Dallas Cloud Computing User Group
7000 state Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX, 75039
Wednesday
Feb 18 2009

Intro to Search Engine Optimization with DotNetNuke
1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

MSDN Developer Conference
55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Team System User Group - Deployment Strategies with Team Build
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

North Texas SQL Server User Group
7000 North Highway 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
211 East Devalcourt Street, Lafayette, LA, 70506
Thursday
Feb 19 2009

Introduction to the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Friday
Feb 20 2009

Developer Round Table Meeting
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

SharePoint Saturday New York
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10104
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Silverlight 2 Firestarter
45 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, PA, 19355
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta
Speer Blvd. and Colfax Ave., Denver, CO, 80217
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Team System User Group - Building with MSBuild
Saturday
Feb 21 2009

Microsoft Access SIG - North Texas PC User Group
6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 752406406

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Link Listing - February 1, 2009

by csteen 1. February 2009 16:14

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Web Developer Checklist [Via: Scott Kuhl ]

WPF

Twitter List for Silverlight/WPF Developers [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]

Code Camps

2009 Boise Code Camp [Via: David Starr ]
CodeCampOz 2009 - April 4-5 - Registration Open [Via: dglover ]

Conferences

Silverlight 3 at MIX 09 [Via: gduthie ]

Cloud Computing

Windows Azure Essential Links [Via: SoulSolutions ]
Open Space Coding – Using the SSDS REST Library [Via: jamie.thomson ]

Podcasts

Bryan Wilhite Speaks! [Via: dotnetrocks ]
Episode 25: What's Coming in Server 2008 R2 with Michael Leworthy [Via: deepfriedbytes ]
RTFLF - Read the Expletive Log File [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
Podcast #39 [Via: Jeff Atwood ]

Miscellaneous

MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block [Via: Hanselminutes ]
How to Style and Animate a WPF ListBox [Via: Norbert Eder ]
Now’s a good time to Ramp Up [Via: gduthie ]
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 7 [Via: podwysocki ]
The .NET Framework Client Profile, Explained [Via: gduthie ]
IronClad [Via: Miguel de Icaza ]

Community

50% off All Manning Books for DZone Members [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2009 -- #502 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2009 -- #503 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 7: Adding Some Style [Via: Ken Cox [MVP] ]

Tools

Reflector.Snippy Addin updated (v0.9.3.0) [Via: Jason Haley ]
StructureMap 2.5.3 is Released – and the future of StructureMap [Via: Jeremy D. Miller ]

Book Reviews

Book review : Pro LINQ [Via: SoulSolutions ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Monday
Feb 02 2009

Cloud Computing User Group
Microsoft Corporation, 45 Liberty Blvd, Suite 210, Malvern, PA, 19355
Monday
Feb 02 2009

Baltimore SQL Server User Group
7001 Columbia Gateway Dr, Columbia, MD, 21046

Tomorrow

Tuesday
Feb 03 2009

South Colorado .NET User Group
7450 Campus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Tuesday
Feb 03 2009

Designers & Developers SIG (D2SIG) - February
2000 W Sam Houston Pkw S, Houston, TX, 77042
Tuesday
Feb 03 2009

CMAP Main Meeting - Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Rachel Appel
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046
Tuesday
Feb 03 2009

DotNetNuke 5: A Peek Under the Hood
8989 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL, 32824

Next Two Weeks

Thursday
Feb 05 2009

RV.NUG Feb Meeting: Developing Real World WPF
5925 Cove Rd, Roanoke, VA, 24019
Thursday
Feb 05 2009

LIUG Feb 5th Meeting - An introduction to .NET Remoting
5 Hub Drive, Melville, NY, 11747
Saturday
Feb 07 2009

SharePoint Saturday Kansas City
8700 Stateline Rd, Suite 200, Leawood, KS, 66206
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Huntsville VS.NET Meeting
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15b, 170, Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

PDANUG February 2009 Meeting
180 Dunbarton Dr., Florence, SC, 29501
Tuesday
Feb 10 2009

Hampton Roads .NET Users Group
510 Indepedence Pkwy, Chesapeake, VA, 23320
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
7435 North Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN, 46240
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008
201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02451
Thursday
Feb 12 2009

Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Rob Vettor
7000 Hwy 161, Irving, TX, 75039
Monday
Feb 16 2009

Shreveport .NET User Group
2911 Centenary Boulevard (Centenary College - Wright Bldg. #103)), Shreveport, LA, 71104
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

MSDN Freedom Roadshow
470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg, PA, 17111
Tuesday
Feb 17 2009

Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11475 N. 2nd Street, Machesney Park, IL, 61115

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