Software
- AvalonControlsLibrary v2 has been released ! – Announcing the latest release of this WPF controls library.
- .NET Reflector 5.1 – Lutz Roeder releases Version 5.1 of everyone’s favourite tool to view the internals of assemblies.
- VS Resource Refactoring Tool – Laurent Duveau highlights one of the Visual Studio Gallery offerings – the resource refactoring tool. I’m currently reading a book on internationalization, so this is an interest for me at the moment
- Zeta Resource Editor – Laurent Duveau points to another useful internationalization tool
- AJAX Control Toolkit – Release: 20229 – Version 3.0.20229 and 1.0.20229 have been released. This release contains a number of bug fixes, outlined on this page.
Information
- Is it important to declare your columns as NOT NULL – Simon Sabin talks about the importance of NOT NULL on your tables and the effects on indexing
- IEBlog : Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 – Many are interpreting this post as being that IE8 will be completely standards compliant. While this is a change in policy from MS, I’m taking it as being that IE8 will be as standards compliant as they can make it, and that will depend on how much legacy from previous versions they keep
- Why do good programmers produce bad software? – Justin Etheredge considers the reasons why even good developers produce bad software
- Enabling Design Time Template Editing – Amr Elsehemy shows how you can create ASP.NET server controls with Template functionality
- Why I Love F#: Lists – The Basics – Dustin Russell Campbell covers the list functionality of F#
- StovellMocks – Paul Stovell dives under the hood of mocking, by making his own simple mocking framework as a learning experience
- Circular references with WCF: solved a different way – Ruurd Boeke shows a way of improving serialisation (over the XML from preserveObjectReferences) of circular references by creating surrogates on the fly.
- SQL Server 2008 for Developers – Utehn Sosraing points to a video by Christian Kleinerman about the new developer features of SQL Server 2008