Links (6/14/2007)

.NET

1. Compile Xaml to C# (.cs) (via Jason Haley)
2. Ruby for .NET Developers
3. A .Net Dev's First Look At Ruby
4. Checking a value against an Enum (Enum.IsDefined)
5. The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rather Than Reuse
6. Iterators
7. Coalescing with ReSharper 3.0
8. Object Creational Patterns and Instantiation
9. Boxing and Unboxing
10. Create multiple sink files with Log4net
11. Build your own CAB Part #9 - Domain Centric Validation with the Notification Pattern
12. Throw new MissingTextException();
13. DateTimeOffset: A New DateTime Structure in .NET 3.5
14. Find LastLogon Across All Windows Domain Controllers
15. Free Business Intelligence .NET Reporting tool

Web

1. WatiN Test Recorder
2. The GridView Row Drag Overlay Extender
3. Web Client Software Factory - Composite Web Application Block Part I Screencast
4. Questions to Ask Yourself Before Creating a User Control
5. How To: Make Tab control panels load "on-demand"
6. Form Base Authentication in ASP.NET
7. ASP.NET Master Pages Tips and Tricks
8. Datagridview with filtering capability
9. Using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET - Part II

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2008 - good listing of all the releases which tools, languages, framework libraries, and CLR

Development

1. How to Write Specification - Examples
2. Some Thoughts on Smalltalk
3. Links to materials on GoF Design Patterns
4. Design is about simplicity, and not for the developer
5. Some Guiding Principles for Software Development
6. Guiding principles for running your project
7. Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming Books
8. Essential (almost) Language Agnostic Programming Books
9. Refactoring Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest away
10. Refactoring to reveal intent
11. The Top 10 Ruby/Rails Blogs
12. MonoDevelop 0.14 released

Miscellaneous

1. How to speed up Vista: disable the slow slow search
2. Show Hidden Programs in Add/Remove Programs on WinXP
3. Remotely enable remote desktop