LINKBLOG for February 5, 2008

Due to a full day visit to the Microsoft training center today's post is little bit VSTS 2008 / TFS oriented.

• Why I changed my mind about Extension Methods - James Newton-King
  ' Using them firsthand I saw how extension methods could be used to improve both reading and writing C# code '


• DnDns - A .NET DNS Client Library (Resolver) - J Montgomery
  


• For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above? - Jeff Moser
  for loop turns 50. extensive article on the inner working of loops. Lots of IL code included!


• Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development - Ian Cooper
  


• Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation? - Marshall Kirkpatrick
  


• Versioning Databases – Branching and Merging - K. Scott Allen
  


• Compiler Optimizations May Be Dangerous - Ilya Ryzhenkov
  


• Windows Release Schedule 2008 - Steven Smith
  it is finally coming towards you from Redmond


• C# Delegates « Rhonda Tipton
  basic delegate implementation


• Unit testing with VS.NET 2008 Pro - Dan Miser
  Some comments on the way Micsosoft implemented unit tests


• Refactor! Pro - Dennis van der Stelt
  Tools, tools, tools. These days Visual Studio looks very empty without them


• A few things I don’t like about VS2008 - Robert W. Anderson
  Robert thinks there's actually some things that could be improved in VS2008 :-) Must say I haven't even found out half of what there is to like, so I keep the dislikes to myself until now...


• Martin Woodward: Aligning Build Numbers with Assembly Versions in TFS2008
  It's a small thing , but nice that is *is* actually possible:
  ' Now our builds have nice incrementing numbers that have the version number included that is the same as the assembly info files '


• C# Operating System - Thijs Kroesbergen
  via Scott (link above)

ps: I'm really sad that some posts I want to link to contain outspoken negative attitudes towards other developers these days. Although the content of the post is definitely 'linkable' me will not link because these attitudes really don't do any good. Wanted to get this off my chest for once. Sorry if it bothers you.