C# Threading Issues

I just discovered an interesting article on Threading, by Jeffrey Richter. Thread synchronization does not work for unboxed value types.

SQL Server 2008 Sparse Columns

Sparse Columns - SQL Server 2008

Other New Features added in SQL Server 2008

WMV to FLV Video File Coverter links

flashvideoencoder/convertvideo.htm
http://www.flash-video-soft.com/flv-converter/

http://www.geovid.com/Video_to_Flash_Converterhttp://www.flash-video-mx.com/

online conversion tools
http://www.zamzar.com/

http://heywatch.com/page/home

http://media-convert.com/http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-to-Flash-Converter.htm


Tool for Purchase
http://www.aone-soft.com/wmv_mpeg_avi_to_flv_converter.htm

Running Silverlight 3.0 Apps out of Browser

http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid8_gci1354076_mem1,00.html?track=NL-150&ad=703437&Offer=WDunsc513sl&asrc=EM_USC_6900645

StoryQ - BDD in C# .Net 3.5 in Launchpad

BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is the next progression step to TDD (Test Driven Development). StoryQ is a C# framework that makes BDD simple.

Also, check out BDD Spec Generator (which generated spec document from the BDD code tests).

BDD is a way to test use cases. Check out BDD and nBehave for some suggestions on writing BDD cases.

Compare the syntax between BDD and FluentInterface .

Check out the NBehave Framework.

Also, check out BBD with xUnit.

Cool LINQ Tool - Linqpad

I just learned about a cool LINQ tool (Linqpad) that can save you a lot of time in writing LINQ.

Developing Silverlight and WPF (Prism 2)

Prism V2 (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/Prismv2/) is the recommended methodology to develop Enterprise loosely coupled Silverlight and WPF applications.

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd458809.aspx) contains links to the Unity framework, etc.