Izindaba #14

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content:

1. Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex - Jesse Liberty is struggling with a case of some Silverlight addiction
2. LINQ to DataSet: Data Binding - Erick Thompson explores the data binding options for LINQ to DataSet query results.  Also see the follow up post about the LinqDataView.
3. Understanding the Difference between Owners and Schemas in SQL Server - An article that explains the concept of schemas as opposed to object owners that was introduced in SQL Server 2005.
4. Integrated SQL Express publishing for web developers in VS 2008 - Somasegar reports that the popular SQL database publishing wizard add-on has been integrated into VS 2008.
5. FxCop Rule for Multi-Targeting - Krysztof Cwalina provides a FxCop rule to warn against using Red bit API's when making use of the multi-targeting support in VS 2008.
6. Collection Performance Counter Information with VS Team System Profiler - News on the excellent support for capturing performance counters using the VS 2008 Team System Profiler and how to use these counters to identify where the bottleneck in your application lies.
7. F#: A Functional Programming Language - Somasegar announces that F# will be fully integrated into a future version of Visual Studio.
8. Unit Testing in VS 2008 - Still not there - Roy Osherove expresses his dissatisfaction with the lack of progress made for writing unit tests in VS 2008.
9. ASP.NET MVC Framework - Scott Guthrie shares a bit more details on the planned MVC Framework for ASP.NET applications.
10. What is Behaviour Driven Development - A nice article on BDD from Tom Adams.
11. TDD with Acceptance Tests and Unit Tests - Uncle Bob explores how acceptance tests, written by business people and QA, should fit into an iteration and be used by the developers as input for writing their unit tests.
12. Best of the Shade Tree Developer Part II - Jeremy Miller pulls together the bests posts from his blog for the last 15 months or so.  Some excellent content on software teams, creating maintainable code and agile related topics.

Happy reading