Dew Drop – January 7, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent NHibernate and nvarchar(max) (Sebastien Lambla)
• IronRuby DBI: Connecting to ADO.NET DataSources (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• NHibernate Profiler: Minute 15 (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day
• CodeSmith 5.0.5 Released (Russ)
• Free Entity Framework eBook (Guy Barrette)
• Introduction to NHibernate, Part 3 (Ian Cooper)

 

Web Development

• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 4) – Your First ASP.NET MVC Project (Nick Berardi)
• MVC Framework and jQuery = Ajax Heaven (Mike Hadlow)
• Accessing Html Document Content in Other Frames (Rick Strahl)
• Oxite – Release: 2009.1.5 (CodePlex) – “This release contains bug fixes, skinning support and some code clean up in response to community feedback.” – That’s putting it mildly.  🙂
• Using Custom Behaviors with the BizTalk WCF Adapters, Part 2 (MS Downloads)
• Super Simple Ajax with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC (Buddy Lindsey)
• Handling Formats Based on URL Extension (Phil Haack)
• Creating a Dynamic Page Template with Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Your Rockin’ YetAnotherForum.NET Is Ready for Action (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure and Web Services (David L.)
• jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series (Jeffrey Way via Gary Sherman)
• Live Framework/Mesh – Screencasts (Mike Taulty)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• C# Design Patterns – Abstract Factory Pattern (Justin)
• It’s Been Years Since I’ve Gone on an Anti-Singleton Rant (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Zune Issue (James Whittaker)
• Dates and Times – Software’s Bane (K. Scott Allen)
• Validation Guidance for FDA Regulated Companies (MS Downloads)
• Creating a Culture of Responsibility (Scott C. Reynolds)
• The Ultimate ExceptionAssert.Throws() Method (Dennis Dietrich)
• Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Jay Kimble)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Restyling WPF ListView Header (Sacha Barber)
• Screencast of Silverlight Installation on Linux (Tim Heuer)
• More on Silverlight Developer Installation (Dave M. Bush)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Announcing the Lean Kanban Conference (Dave Laribee)
• Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Marc) – Dinner in Reston, VA the evening before the MDC event.
• Events This Week – January 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight 2 + SharePoint 2007 Presentations – Jan/Feb/March and MSDN Webcast: SharePoint 2007: Site Customization with Silverlight 2 (Sahil Malik)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Find Currently Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Manage winrm Settings with wsman Provider (Wei Wu)

 

Miscellaneous

• Outliers: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• Education Breakdown? (Ryan Kelley)
• Caffeine as Fuel for Web Workers (Dawn Foster)
• Is SOA Dead? (Hanu Kommalapati)
• A Tool I Just Couldn’t Dream of Living Without… (Granville Barnett)
• Why Did Microsoft Skip Office 13? and Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000: Feature Complete? and Office 14 = Microsoft Office System 2009? and Windows Online UI Prototype (Stephen Chapman)
• Google & Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• The Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Program (Thom Holwerda)
• New Asus Netbooks Will Feature Windows 7 (Jacqueline Emigh)
• C’mon, Don’t Be "That Guy" (Sara Chipps)
• A Year in the Life of CaffeinatedCoder: Part 1 (Russell Ball)
• 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile (Kip Kniskern)
• IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today! (Jane Maliouta)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing – January 6, 2009 and Link Listing – January 7, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Creators Club Communiqué 12 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2009 — #477 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 6th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.01~2009.01.07 (yuanjian)
• LINKBLOG for January 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#30 – Microsoft Security Threat Modeling Tool and WSDAC#30 – Open Source Business Model and WSOAC#42 – SAML vs OpenID (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #259 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 07, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Wednesdya Treasures for the Week Ending 1/9/09 (Dana Coffey)

 

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