Daily Links 30/04/2008

Deferred execution with LinQ
LinQ queries don't necessarily get executed on the line they are declared...

Subversion so easy, even your wife can use it
yeah, this guy slept on the couch a few nights I'm sure :)

Using the Grid control in Silverlight 2 Beta 1
The Grid Control is pretty central (at least for the meantime) to layout of Silverlight UI

Share files on-line

TFS Client download
Free Team Foundation Client install for Visual Studio.

LinQ to XML in 3 easy steps

Going Open Source Series & Working With Open Source Companies - 3 RedMonk White Papers

TestDriven .NET now has support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1
Only ad-hoc tests supported thus far though

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Defining Silverlight DataGrid Columns at Runtime

Silverlight - the song

Implementing Generic Caching

Daily Links 10/04/2008

Setting up Subversion on Windows
"get a small Subversion server and client going on Windows. It'll take all of 30 minutes"
Handy for home development (those of us that can't afford Team Foundation Server)
Also consider VisualSVN Server

Unit Testing with Silverlight - the FULL article

Life of a software project (graph)
ie: less code + less programmers = better software...and herein lies the value of using few good developers (those who can get the same functionality from less lines of code while still remaining understandable / maintainable) rather than many average developers.

Using WinMerge with TFS
Replace the sucky default TFS merge tool with WinMerge

FolderLock
"password-protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures and documents in seconds"

Unlocker
Got a bit tired of inetinfo locking folders I needed access to. (restarting IIS and machine doesn't release the lock!) This is a handy tool that can release locks on files / folders from a simple right-click menu option.

Daily Links 11/02/2008

TDD for Beginners Series
for those of us who keep meaning to get into TDD and would like a simple place to start

C# Sorting evolution
Illustrates the improvements of C# from 1.0 - 3.0 using sorting as an example.

Calculate the distance between 2 geoCodes (lat / long) in C# / Javascript

Visual Studio 2005 Addins for NAnt and NUnit

ShortGuid - a shorter and URL friendly Guid class in C#

Latest Link List from Scott Gu

Secured Subversion on Windows
using SSH withouth having to install Apache

I recently got locked out of my SQL 2005 using the sa account: to fix this, login using windows authentication, and run this query: "ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = 'yourPassword' UNLOCK"

Daily Links - 03/10/2007

A Raw Serializer
Good article on serialization covering Binary, XML, Compression and Encryption of data streams

Surface computing hands-on article

Utilities.NET
"Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks."

Profiling .NET Applications
Tutorial on profiling .NET applications using ANTS

Subversion 1.5 features

Some articles on [Distributed] Caching:
Distributed Caching with Memcached
Domain Objects Caching Pattern for .NET
Web Caching Architectures: Hierarchical and Distributed Caching

Logitech vs M$ Bluetooth mouse comparision

Daily Links - 29/8/2007

Automate Subversion backups

The Myth of Software Estimation

...another classic dilbert
particularly relevant in large projects with multiple project managers :)