Dew Drop – January 20, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WiimoteLib v1.7 Released (Brian Peek)
• C# to JavaScript, ActionScript (Jason Haley)
• Fluent NHibernate: Auto Mapping Components (James Gregory)
• Visual Studio Tricks in Video Form (Tim Heuer)
• Know Your Frameworks (Michael Ceranski)
• LINQ to SQL Templates Updated, Now on CodePlex (Damien Guard)
• Writing Attributes and Extension Methods for Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• An Introduction to MVVM in WPF with Karl Shifflett (Adam Kinney)
• The Culture of Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Prism v2 – Drop 9 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) (Erwin van der Valk)
• Useful WPF Threading Extension Method (Sacha Barber)
• UI Patterns for WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• jQuery VS2008 IntelliSense Update (James Hart)
• S#arp Architecture Beta 1.0 Now Available! (Billy McCafferty)
• Visual Studio Add-In for Web Parts Generation (Sasa Popovic)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enterprise Services Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption – Part 3 (Sam Gentile)
• How Code Generation Breaks YAGNI (Laila Bougria)
• Sometimes Typemock Isolator Can Be Too Powerful (Francis K. Cheung)
• Mentoring Other Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Which Path to Follow (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft patterns & practices Agile Workspace Tour (J.D. Meier)
• Overwhelmed Developers Need a Training Plan (JP Hamilton)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Sealed Classes (Brad Abrams)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 19th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Introducing DotNetShoutout.com (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• XamlFest NYC Event Open – February 9th and 10th (Dave Isbitski)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET Meeting 1/28/2009 – Selenium + FitNesse (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Entity Framework at Philly.NET Tomorrow Night (Jan 21) – Thanks INETA (Julie Lerman)

 

Database

• SQLServerVideos.com: A Great Resource for Devs Who Work with SQL Server (Julie Lerman)
• Book: Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Joe Stagner)
• SQL Server – Rules for Optimizing Any Query – Best Practices for Query Optimization (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerScripting Podcast Online and Why Should I Test with PowerShell? (James Brundage)
• Debugging PowerShell Script Using the ISE Editor (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

 

Miscellaneous

• Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper (James Kovacs)
• People + Media + Messages = Social (Daniel Crenna)
• Fix Windows 7 Sidebar with UAC Off (Chris)
• The New Generation of Dirty Business on the Web (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Top Ten Leadership Lessons (Jim Kouzes)
• Goals for 2009 (Keith Elder)
• It’s 2009 Already — Where’s My Damn Internet-Based IDE?? (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 19, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 19th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links for 19-Jan (Steve Gilham)
• Visual Studio Links #101 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for January 19, 2009 — #491 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #268 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day