Pick of the week: Building a New Database Engine Without Ego
General
- Vista Bridge 1.4 Released: Greg Duncan highlights the latest release of Vista Bridge, which lets managed code easily work with the new features of Vista that only have unmanaged interfaces.
- Googleman: Best use of WPF. Ever.
- Back to Basics – 32-bit & 64-bit Confusions Around x86 & x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR: Scott Hanselman explains when and why .NET developers need to care about system bitness.
- Step-By-Step – Creating Setup for 3.5 SP1 Client Profile in VS2008: Joshua Allen has put together a step-by-step guide to deploying your application using the lesser known, but much more petite, client profile.
- Today I’ve Realized How Far We Have To Go: A motivational post by Justin Etheredge reminding us how infant our field really is.
- Why Would I Create a Customer LINQ Operator: K.Scott Allen explains the three scenarios where a custom LINQ operator would be beneficial.
Web Development
- Silverlight as the V in ASP.NET MVC: Tim Heuer demonstrates how to easy it is to use Silverlight as the view in MVC.
- ASP.NET MVC Validation – The Definitive Guide: Graham O’Neale has compiled the ultimate guide on ASP.NET MVC validation.
- ASP.NET Caching Is Too Easy: Scott Watermasysk talks about how ASP.NET caching is so easy to use that it can easily create more problems than it solves.
- Moonlight 1.0 Goes Live: Miguel de Icaza announces the 1.0 release of Moonlight, the Silverlight for Unix system.
- Lightweight Test Automation Framework Source Released: The ASP.NET QA team has released a new tool for regression testing ASP.NET applications.
- Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications: Not really .NET, but a good read nonetheless. One thing I think deserves a shout-out is a post referenced about the CAP Theorem, which most certainly applies to any web application.
- ASP.NET Wire Format for Model Binding to Arrays, Lists, Collections, & Dictionaries: Scott Hanselman lays out the different ways the default model binder can bind to collections.