Links (9/17/2006)

C# and VB.NET

1. Using C# Generics to extract enumerated flags from a numeric value
2. Snippets: A Generic Getter
3. Groupable ListView
4. Calculating Date Difference in C#
5. Timespan Best Practices
6. Building control derived from Windows Forms control in Visual Studio 2005 Part 1 Part 2
7. **** A Worker Thread Class for Processing Work Units
8. ComboBox in a DataGrid
9. The True Cost of Exceptions - Jon's take | Rico Mariani's rebuke
10. Performance Quiz #11: Ten Questions on Value-based Programming (including solutions)
11. Why are NameValueCollection lookups slower than Hashtable?

ASP.NET

1. Design-Time Debugging ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005
2. Validating strong passwords in C# and ASP.NET
3. Reporting Services 2005 101 using Web Client
4. User Interface generator for ASP.NET database applications
5. Exception Handling Techniques in ASP.NET
6. Deep Serialization: Binary and SOAP Serialization with a Generic Twist
7. Maintain Control State in ASP.NET 2.0
8. *** ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation and Deployment Quick Reference
9. **** Download Firebug and view your XMLHttpRequests
10. Scott Mitchell's building and using a 3-tiered data architecture with ASP.NET 2.0 - this is an excellent set of tutorials (32 so far). highly recommended
11. Tip/Trick: Enabling Back/Forward-Button Support for ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
12. Creating Custom Cache Dependency (via Jason Haley)
13. Building and Consuming a Dynamic Sitemap in ASP.NET 2.0

Delphi

1. CFBuild: Version 1.2 is available - Compact Framework Build Helper
2. Placing a TProgressBar into a TStatusBar/TListView/Dialog

XML

1. Free ebook on XML and related standards

Agile

1. Advocating the use of code coverage

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

1. Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation

Patterns

1. Partially Loaded Objects

Visual Studio/Tools

1. Cure Code Bloat - Tutorial on New Refactoring Tools in Visual Studio 2005
2. Mike Gunderloy on Purvasive Tooling - Mike's take on 10 tools every software developer should have. Don't know how I missed this. Rob Caron has his recommendations. (via Jason Haley)