Dew Drop – January 17, 2009

Web Development

• jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
• DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
• SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
• Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
• January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
• How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
• Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
• C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
• Named Format Strings (James Hart)
• First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
• Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
• CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
• Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
• Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
• 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
• The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
• DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
• Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
• The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
• Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

• SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
• Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
• How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

• TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
• A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
• Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
• MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

• How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
• XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Search Twitter with Windows 7’s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
• User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
• Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
• My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
• What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
• Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
• Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
• CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
• Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books