Dew Drop – June 27, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unit Testing Non-Public Types Using Reflection (Dennis Dietrich)
• The Entity Framework – Don’t Get Fooled in What Is Wrong About It (Sebastien Lambla)
• A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance (Rick Minerich)
• EDM Tools | Options (Part 3 of 4) (Mike Kaufman)
• Debugging Windows Services (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• On InternalsVisibleTo (Oren Eini)
• WCF: A Few Tips (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology

• Agile Versus Lean (Martin Fowler)
• The Criticism of the Entity Framework Is Not Just Around Domain Driven Design (Ian Cooper)
• "Agile Shop" (Dave Laribee)
• Separation of Concerns by Example: Part 3 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Tools For Agility (Ade Miller) – New whitepaper by Kent Beck on MSDN.

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #9 – Create a GridView View User Control (Stephen Walther)
• Waegis Will Be Live in July (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• One Man’s Guide to Silverlight Nirvana (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 2) – Async Service Call Chaining (Pete Brown)
• Xbox Gamercard Updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Adam Kinney)
• Data Focused Silverlight Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Tip of the Day #11 – Transparency – How to Make Your Silverlight Control Transparent (Mike Snow)
• XAML Control Design (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Contrasting Control Templates & Styles in WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silvester – A Silverlight Twitter Widget (Emil Stoychev)

 

Events

• VSLive New York – September 7-10, 2008 (Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Fan Mail (Jesse Liberty)
• 4 Contacts Every Web Worker Should Have (Celine Roque)
• NotNorthwind – Update #1 – All Your Northwind Are Belong to Us (Scott Hanselman)
• Understanding RosettaNet Message Flow in BizTalk Server 2006 (Jeff Lynch)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for June 26, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Find #80 (Tim Boland)
• Links (6/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.06.27 (gOODiDEA)
• Everyman Links for June 27, 2008 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #124 (Chris Alcock)

 

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