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17th June 2008

Finds of the Week – June 17, 2008

ReSharper 4.0 is released.
Andre Loker shared a very cool trick available with C# 3.0: Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions.
Official Guidance: New Recommendations for Strings in .NET 2.0. By Dave Fetterman, BCL Team Blog.
Scott Guthrie announced availability of Silverlight Beta 2. Looks like there are a ton more controls.
Sending SMTP Email Asynchronously with SmtpClient.SendAsync().
Igor Ostrovsky gave an easy-to-digest summary of concurrency in .NET Framework 3.5.
Tools And Techniques to Identify Concurrency Issues. By Rahul V. Patil and Boby George, MSDN Magazine. Lots of good information on concurrency issues, how to analyze/detect problems, and pointers to tools.
Did you know about AppDomain::UnhandledException Event? I didn’t, until my Windows Service started to die without even leaving a nice goodbye… stacktrace. Well there was this mysterious looking entry in the Events Log. MSDN.
Add color to your Console apps with ConsoleColor. MSDN.
Exceptional Performance : Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site. Yahoo! Developer Network.

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages by Jacob Gube (Six Revisions).
Nick Beradi showed you how to Turn Google App Engine into your own Personal Content Delivery Network (CDN). App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account, and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see, at no charge and with no obligation. A free account can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month.
An interesting look at Gmail client-side code: Gmail Client Side Architecture Part 1. By Sajith .M.R.

FireFox 3 is out. To get the most of of it, check out lifehacker’s Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3.

Jeff Atwood discussed Physics Based Games.
If you are a PC gamer, don’t miss Is the Market for PC Gaming Finished? by Aaron Stannard (Aaronontheweb).