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PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know

I did not know about the importance of PDB files until I read this article. John Robbins wrote about how every developer must know about this PDB files  in detail here

Microsoft SharePoint Site now on SharePoint

Ian Palangio wrote about how Microsoft is using SharePoint for it's content management in their SharePoint site. He also shares more sites using MOSS 2007.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ianpal/archive/2009/05/21/microsoft-sharepoint-site-now-on-sharepoint.aspx

Here is the great resource on MOSS 2007 best practices. Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies Introduction

Here is the three part series on Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies Introduction

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta

VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta is now available 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=18:370

WCF videos

For those who have some time to learn WCF in video format,Mike Taulty provides lots of links here

 http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2006/09/13/8875.aspx

Sharepoint performance test links

 Great blog which got all the resources you want ever for SharePoint performance

http://blogs.msdn.com/sanjaynarang/archive/2009/04/18/sharepoint-performance-stress-load-testing.aspx

Sharepoint performance recommendations

These days I am staying away from the bigger articles as I very well know that I will either jump or skip the article in between and so this caught my eyes. Isn't it true that we are all going to away from larger content to shorter and focused content model.

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/03/01/bill-s-5-min-sharepoint-performance-recommendations.aspx

What is POCO - Entity Framework

Ever wondered about what is POCO? POCO stands for Plain Old CLR Object which does not have any persistence concerns. Jaroslaw Kowalski explained this in detail

I know it is coming. Yes you can do the deferred/lazy loading in Entity Framework 4.0 as explained by ADO.NET team

 http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/05/12/sneak-preview-deferred-loading-in-entity-framework-4-0.aspx

How to create a custom e-mail alert handler in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

 I was wondering how to create a custom email alert event handler in Sharepoint and was landed on this KB article which clearly explains how to do that. Like any good student, I ignored the rule and modified the alertTemplates.xml directly and found that it is not working and so please make sure not to edit alertTemplates.xml directly as mentioned!!

 How to create a custom e-mail alert handler in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 - The movie

Check this out http://www.office2010themovie.com/

I like the no CTRL+ALT+DEL part!!