Dew Drop – May 29, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• PDF Image Grabber (Lou Franco)
• Windows Live Agents SDK Released (Scott)
• The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Some Great Free WinForms Controls – Krypton (Casey Charlton) – Not many people releasing good, free controls for WinForms lately.
• NHibernate Many-to-Many Collections (OR Mapping Is Not One Table One Class) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Propagating the ActivityID to a WCF Service (Josh Twist)

 

Web Development

• MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using jQuery to Directly Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods (Dave Ward)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Namespaces – Part 4 – The WPF Subset (Daniel Moth)
• WPF Dialogs and DialogResult (Marlon Grech)
• Keeping Focused on Silverlight and Data (John Papa)
• Silverlight Rectangles, Paths, and Lines (Dave Campbell)

 

Design / Methodology

• The Role of Architecture in Agile Development (Kevlin Henney)
• Patterns in Practice: The Open Closed Principle (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Test-Driven Development and Software Quality (John Smart)
• Designing For Evil (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• MOSS Shopping Cart Beta 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Started with SharePoint and Silverlight – Part II (Joris Poelmans)
• Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies – Sample Code (MSDN Code Gallery)

 

Miscellaneous

• SAAS: Connect Enterprise Apps with Hosted BizTalk Services (Jon Flanders & Aaron Skonnard)
• Static vs Dynamic Languages – Attack of the Clones (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ideas for Writing Composable PowerShell Scripts (Joel Bennett)
• Microsoft’s Survival Strategy (Maggie Shiels)
• Windows 7 Multi-Touch Hi-Res Shots (Paul Thurrott)
• ‘Harold & Kumar 2’ Goes Interactive for DVD Release (Tim Briscoe) – Choose Your Own Adventure!
• A Software Developer Trying to Get in Shape with the Wii Fit?? (Dan Wahlin)
• Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon! (Brian Peek)
• g.ho.st and Glide Show Web OS Innovation at D6 (Rafe Needleman)
• Sweetter 2.0 teta (via MoMB) – An Open Source Microblogging site.
• Text 2 Mind Map – An Online Converter (via MoMB)

 

Blogging / Networking

• The Social Media Resume: Making Your Mark in a Web 2.0 World (Celine Roque)

 

Events / Community / Presenting

• Welcome to PDC08! (Brad Abrams)
• stackoverflow Podcast #7 (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips From My Technical Presentations (Chris Bowen)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #70 and Daily Find #71 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #33 (Darren Stokes)
• Links Today (2008-05-28) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for May 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #103 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day