LINKBLOG for August 25, 2008
Aug 25th, 2008 by AZuidhof
Drag and Drop Text Files from Windows Explorer to your Windows Form Application - Suprotim Agarwal
GUI code tipThe Evolution of MVC - Stephen Walther
Stephen describes MVC little history: from how it was first implemented in a Smalltalk context, from Java Server Pages, up until it’s current adoption in the ASP.NET world by MicrosoftMapping a Checkbox To a Boolean Action Parameter in ASP.NET MVC - Fredrik Kalseth
Small code sample showing a work around how to implement thisSmallestDotNet: On the Size of the .NET Framework - Scott Hanselman
‘ So how big is it the .NET Framework download, really? ‘ In order to answer that question a bit faster, Scott created this small helpful new site to help you outEffective Error handling in SQL Server 2005 - Madhawa Karunaratne
Transitioning - part I - getting out - Sergio Pereira
Sergio tells us about the intricacites involved with wrapping up a (longer running) gigBook: Code Leader - Tim Stall
Book review on Patrick Cauldwell’s latest book “Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software”
‘ (…) any book that helps explain how to go “to the next level” is going to capture my interest ‘Life of a Startup Founder - Ethan Vizitei
Ethan has some observations of how he views working in his own startup. While it has not brought him wealth (yet), he enjoys his current workload much, much more than while he was still doing ‘another day in the office’Roland Weigelt’s GhostDoc for Visual Studio - Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin has a helpful review of a free tool that’s just a *must have* for every Visual Studio user out there. And don’t worry, it works in 2008 like a charm
‘ GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C# ‘Doing Risk Management Right - Glen Alleman
‘ Many organizations give lip service to managing technical and programmatic risk. They say they are doing risk management, but of course they are not ‘*** Software Development Books: Investing In Yourself - Davy Brion
It has been said before here, but Davy stresses the importance of continuous investment (
) in your career, for example by reading tech books
‘ i’ve noticed that a lot of developers that i know hardly ever read books about software development. Which is too bad, because those books really are a cheap way of investing in yourself and your career ‘DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .Net - Dan Rigsby
Dan explains the use of one of the many new things in .NET 3.5, theDataTimeOffsetstruct, in his series of posts on the Dates and Times in .NETFast Serialization - Greg Young
Greg implements completely custom serialization, performing more than an order of magnitude faster than BinaryFormatter. Has some issues though… ‘ This solution is for a fairly niche condition and is heavily optimized so please read the explanations below to see if it will be good for your scenario before using ii ‘
Would like to see more people write out their thoughts like Jeremy does. They read like minutes of a brainstorm meeting: a rough unpolished text, containing a couple things requiring some further thought. At least not polished to deathThe Dirty Little Secrets of Productivity Bloggers - Leo Babauta
‘ Psst … hey, over here … I have a secret to tell you. Don’t tell anyone ‘
Anyone else noticed you need a Japanese dictionary these days following the ‘alt.net’ blogosphere Item Presentation Models for WPF - ‘Happy Nomad’
‘ Make your life easier by inserting a Presentation Model layer between your domain-model collection contents and template-generated WPF objects ‘More on Converting Native Exceptions to Managed Exceptions - Sasha Goldshtein
Afther his latest post on native exceptions, Sasha warns us not to take handling them too lightly ‘ Trapping every Win32 exception and indiscriminately translating it to a managed exception is extremely dangerous ‘Alan Kay on ‘The Camel has Two Humps’ - Leon Bambrick
Leon is pleasantly surprised to find *that* Alan respond on his blogA Different View Of The Web Standards - Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ Molly Holzschlag (…) she says Web Standards are more of recommendations and specifications than enforced standards, and it is quite refreshing to read this amidst the continuous tussle between businesses, developers and people ‘
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