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As promised in my intentions-post for 2008, I'm going to create a links post every week. So here we go for week 1 of 2008!
- Brad Abrams announced they're starting on version 2 of Framework Design Guidelines. Although it will not ship before the end of this year, you can suggest topics that you'd like to see included in the final release of the book. Got an idea? Add it here.
- New free e-clinic on .net 3.0: included is an overview on WPF, WCF and WF. Go to https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=138162 for 3 hours of free .net 3.0 training.
More to come, stay tuned...
Don't know what to do this Christmas vacation? Tired of eating turkey all day? Maybe checking out these interesting links may be interesting...
Enjoy!
Here are some links you might find useful:
-LINQ cookbook: series of solutions to specific scenarios, that the team comes across when writing code and using queries
-Nice intro to ASP.NET MVC framework
-Looking for a replacement for FreeTextBox? Maybe this newly created rich text box for ASP.NET is the solution: http://www.codeplex.com/rte
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Automatic Properties and Initializers in C# 3.0: a nice introduction on these new features in C# 3.0.
I hope you can find some use of these links. Feel free to post interesting links in the comments!
Some interesting things I came across today... Hope they come in handy in your everyday job 
- ASP.net Ajax Control Toolkit 10920 released: a new version of the Control Toolkit was released today. Like always, you can download the bits here on CodePlex. A nice write-up on the changes can be found here.
- Silverlight tutorials: on www.designwithsilverlight.com, there's a list of cool tutorials on Silverlight.
- Silverlight Spy: this really is a great find! This app let's you take a peek inside your Silverlight applications. It's free and can be downloaded here.
From the site: Silverlight Spy is a small WinForm application capable of inspecting Silverlight 1.0 applications. Using the built-in web browser you can navigate to a webpage containing Silverlight objects. The application automatically detects any Silverlight objects and populates it's XAML object explorer. Silverlight Spy works with any web page hosting Silverlight 1.0 content, just point the browser to the page and let the Spy figure it out.
- Photo Carousel: a great series of Nikhil Kothari on building a photo carousel in Silverlight with Script#. Part 1, part 2 and part 3 are available.
- MSDN magazine October: the new issue of your favorite magazine! Get it for free here.
-Craig Skibo explains what the Visual Studio Shell architecture is all about, which was announced at TechEd yesterday. Here you can read all about it.
-The first CTP of Acropolis was released today. You can download it here, there's a video available too.
If you don't know what Acropolis is, here's a short:
The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development.
-Brad Abrams has a nice article on Acropolis too here.
I've always found pictures on abandoned places very inspiring and creepy. Today, I came acros a site which has a nice collection on abondoned amusement parks.
You can see them here.
You might not know that Writely.com, the online text-editor, is now part of Google. Since then, it has not been possible to register for this service, it has become invite-based.
You can get free invites here.
Never had any virus on my PC actually, though I have been on the net since 1999... However, some "great" (might not be the correct word to use...) virusses have hit the computer world ever since.
Virusses like Melissa, MyDoom and Sobig caused billions of dollars worth of damage...
Nowadays, gigantic virus outbreaks seem to become more rare, and I recently read that spam and spyware has passed virusses in amount of loss of money.
But, perhaps for the sake of nostalgia, here you can read an article on the most destructible virusses to date.
I found a site which has some very funny ads on it (pics actually, no vids).
Go here to see some more of these...
