LINKBLOG for March 1, 2008

• Humor: Always Double Check Your Release Notes - Rob Walling
  


• Virtual by default is better
  The virtual as contrasted with override kind of virtual...


• Frank's At It Again: Another Free PowerShell Book
  


• Most Everything the Immediate Window Can Do the Watch Window Can Do Better - Jon von Gillern
  Taking these Visual Studio windows to completely new dimension :-)


• My article on the Parallel Extensions - Daniel Moth
  


• Power Up your Visual Studio 2008 with the new, free and with source, PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 - Greg Duncan
  


• Automated releases (with a touch of deployments) - Kyle Baley
  ' A release is a packaged version of the application. That is, it is some artifact or group of artifacts that *could* be deployed if so desired. A deployment is the actual act of deploying a release. '


• Correct event invocation - .NET Tip of The Day
  


• The mysterious life of mutexes - Oren Eini
  


• Code Snippet: MeasureString - Scott Rreynolds
  ' Last night I had cause to measure the rendered dimensions of a string at a given font and width '


• Index card generator - version 2! - Henrik Kniberg
  via Matt Hinze


• Optimal Debug Settings for VS.NET 2005 - D. P. Bullington
  


• Sam Gentile's Inessential List of Tools - Sam Gentile
  


• Patterns and Practices for Visual Studio Team System - J.D. Meier
  ' I thought it might be helpful to walk through a deliverable so you can see my current approach for building prescriptive guidance in patterns & practices '


• Why can't Open Source be used to fix problems like this? - Nick Malik
  


• Setting the default browser inside Visual Studio - Jimmy Bogard
  


• LINQ Gymnastics: Creating A Predictive Query With LINQ - Rob Conery
  ' LINQ is a nice alternative for complicated SQL, as long as you take the time to make readable '


• On Programming: Lateral vs. Vertical Thinking - Peter Bromberg
  ' This is an issue that I personally deal with almost every day: How developers approach a programming problem from the standpoint of THINKING '


• Tricky Programming on Multi-Core Processors - Zaur Nasibov
  Parallelizing Quicksort


• A Fast CSV Reader - Sebastien Lorion
  ' A reader that provides fast, non-cached, forward-only access to CSV data '


• Automating your Deployment - Adam Alinauskas
  


• First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2 - Scott Guthrie
  Scott has another major tutorial


• Is Open Source Software Necessarily Cheaper? - Soon Hui
  Maybe a bit obvious but good te be reminded of: open source has its charms, but also disadvantages ' (...) open source software is not necessarily cheaper. There are hidden costs that are not reported on the book '


• Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ - Dennis van der Stelt