Finds of the Week – January 20, 2008

.NET, C#, Programming

• ScottGui made the long awaited announcement: .NET Framework Library Source now available.
• Roy Osherove raised a attention grabbing question: Dependency Injection – Is it relevant beyond unit testing?
• From the folks who brought you Best C# Blogs, a List of best C# Web Sites. By Tim Martinn/DevTopics.
• Sandcastle January 2008 Release Available. Via John Mandia.
• James Carr’s TDD Anti-Patterns is a fun and enlightening read on of Test Driven Development.
• It’s possible to write your own ASP.NET Web Service help page. Shahed Khan has the details.
• Tobias Hertkorn posted a great tip on how to measure memory consumption of objects in C# right in the code.

Software and Tools

• Jeff Atwood shared the Top Five Browser Shortcuts Everyone Should Know. I didn’t know about the middle mouse button browser shortcut. Very useful.
• Reading Nazmul Idris’ post on Microsoft OneNote 2007 prompted me to try it myself…. and I loved it. It’s a great application to keep track of notes, journal entries, work logs, etc. It’s going to be an essential app for me from now on.

   

  I especially like offline mode support for USB flash drives. You can keep your Notebooks on a flash memory card. OneNote automatically synchronizes its local cache with the flash card when the card is inserted. When not inserted, you can still work on the local cached copy.

  What I don’t like: no VBA macro support. One of the first thing I tried was pressing ALT+F11 to bring up the VBA IDE… nothing happened. A quick search in Online Help confirmed my sinking feeling: no VBA support. Supposedly, you can write add-ins.

Windows Mobile/Pocket PC

• The coolest applications on the Windows Mobile platform, by Mike Riley.

Gadgets

• Scott Hanselman did a extensive review of Verizon FIOS TV.

Something different

• Watch dolphins blowing circles made of air bubbles.