Some Great RSS Finds (from: Scott Dockendorf)
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottdockendorf/archive/2005/02/02/365240.aspx | Comments
Here are some interesting “finds” from the blogging world over the past week or so (I’m offloading all my saved Favorites here!)
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Agile Development
- Check out www.xpstorystudio.com, JSGreenwood’s free-Project Management portal for Agile teams!
- www.Larkware.com (from < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
Scott Hanselman ) - List of Interesting Wiki’s (from Paul Bartlett)
.NET Open Source Software Projects:
- Mvp.Xml Library v1.0 Released (News, Project Site) (from Roy Osherove)
- Check out Roy Osherove’s Xtunit, Interception Block, & Extensibility Application Block
- Newly-released Enterprise Library
(More Info, Download, Online Tutorials, Community Extensions) - Wintellect’s Power Collections (Generics for .net 2.0)
ASP.NET
- Use ASP.NET 2.0’s Member Management Component in ASP.NET 1.1 (From Brian Ritchie & Telligent’s own, Scott Watermasysk)
- New sharpUrls Library (from Fabrice’s blog)
.NET Framework
- Fredrick’s Post about the new ConfigurationManager Class in .NET v2.0
- David Waddleton’s 5-part webcast series over Debugging & Tweaking starts on February 14th.
- An interesting look at the StringBuilder vs String Concatenation (I haven’t tried it myself, yet)
VSTS
- MSDN Universal & VSTS, How Will It Work? Clarification on pricing (from Buck Hodges)
- VSTS Newsgroups (also from Buck)
- Ohad’s Comparing VS 2003 with Visual Studio 2005 Team System Post
BizTalk
- BizTalk Roadmap Announced (from BizTalk ChalkTalk blog)
C#
- New C# Team member Blogs: Shaykatc & MSDN C# Team Blogroll
Microsoft MVP’s
- MVP Awards & 2005 MVP Global
Summit Date Announced (from Jean-Luc David)
Smart Client Deplyment
- MSDN Article: ClickOnce vs MSI (from .NET Security Blog)
FireFox
- Speed up FireFox (from Scott Hanselman)