General
- Microsoft Migrates MSDN & TechNet to Hyper-V RC0: Microsoft has eaten its own dog food yet again by migrating the web servers hosting MSDN and TechNet to virtual machines running inside Hyper-V RC0. Combined, the two sites serve more than 4 million page views each day! Be sure to hit the link at the bottom to the full report.
- 7 Tricks to Simplify Your Programs with LINQ: Think LINQ is just for databases? If so, you are quite wrong! Igor Ostrovsky has put together an excellent post outlining simple, yet effective, ways to use LINQ to simplify your code. A great primer for the latest and greatest from Redmond!
- Generic Types & IDisposable with the 'Using' Trick: Proper disposal of resources is a critical part of programming in .Net. This 'so easy I should have thought of it' trick is one way to make sure things get disposed in your generic types.
ASP.NET
- PersistJS - Cross Browser Persistent Storage Without Cookies: Modern web browsers support some form of persistent storage that doesn't involve cookies. The problem is that they each use a different storage mechanism. Introducing PersistJS - a small, standalone persistent storage library that lets you access the browser storage while remaining ignorant to which browser you're using!
- CSS Message Boxes: For that extra little splash of style for your site, throw in one of these nicely styled message boxes by Janko Jovanovic.
- ASP.NET Officially Unmaintainable: An excellent editorial on why ASP.NET (webforms, specifically) are a nightmare to maintain, and why MVC and MonoRail are the way to go. Thanks, Jimmy!
Software
- ReSharper 4.0 Beta Released: Nearly 6 months after Visual Studio 2008 shipped, JetBrains is finally getting around the releasing 4.0...beta. While I fail to see why this is taking so long, the EAP releases have been working well, and it's much better than getting all the red marks by using 3.1.
- VisualSVN 1.4.2: Get the latest patch release for one of the best Visual Studio SVN integration add-ins out there!
