Links (1/2/2008)

Happy New Year!

.NET

1. Design patterns - Part 4-Builder Pattern in .NET
2. Rethrowing exceptions and preserving the full call stack trace
3. Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 6: Joins (Bill Horst)
4. Ensure the quality of the code that will be developed this year - using NDepend
5. A perfect C# string enumerator
6. Essential LINQ to Objects Video in 20 Minutes
7. Exploring LINQ
8. Linq - Handle Insert/Update/Delete of child entity in tiered application
9. Strong-typed reflection with LINQ
10. WPF TabItems With Close Button
11. Desktop spy utility that emails subject's screenshots to you
12. Creating Pivot table in ADO.NET
13. Creating an immutable value object in C# - Part IV - A class with a special value
14. Community Convergence XXXVIII

Web

1. Testing ASP.NET Application Using Watir And Ruby
2. Log4net: simple way to use in your Asp.net application
3. Improve maintainability of ASP.NET databinding
4. Basic Sample - How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server
5. Unifying Web "Sites" and Web Services with the ASP.NET MVC Framework
6. Explaining the Firefox Warning: Unresponsive script for Silverlight 1.0 apps
7. List of registry keys affecting IIS7 behavior
8. Rounded Corners With No Images Using curvyCorners
9. 9 Timeless 3 Column Layout Techniques
10. ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions History Control Tip
11. Advanced CSS Menu Technique
12. Ajax and json for ASP.NET MVC with jQuery
13. How I learned CSS
14. CSS-Only, Table-less Forms
15. ASP.NET TextBox MultiLine maxlength
16. Insert flash into page without "Click to activate and use this control" in IE
17. ASP.NET MVC: Using Helper Classes And Services
18. HttpWatch - My favorite web performance tool

Visual Studio

1. Just added Mole to my .NET toolbox - Mole is a very handy visualizer for Visual Studio (.NET) developers
2. Did you know... You can change the RSS feed on the Visual Studio Start Page?
3. Did you know... How to show the Miscellaneous Files Project in the Solution Explorer?
4. Did you know.... How to customize what directory the File - Open - File dialog opens to?
5. Did you know... How to edit a read-only file in VS?
6. Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Nine: Expand Lambda Expression
7. Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Ten: Refactoring in XML Literals
8. Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Eleven: More Refactoring in XML Literals
9. Twelve Days of Refactor! X-mas, Day Twelve: Extract XML Literal to Resource

Development

1. Ruby.NET vs. IronRuby: What's The Difference?
2. Advventures In Ruby, Part 3
3. How to write good presentations
4. WinDbg’s Hidden Tools

Miscellaneous

1. Cropper – Screen Capturing Utility from Brian Scott
2. VHD Resizer for Virtual Server or Virtual PC
3. Camtasia 5 Review - just picked this up - want to start making some SharePoint videos
4. Skrbl - The Ultimate in Real Time Electronic Whiteboarding
5. Actipro Ribbon - Office 2007 UI