Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – February 7-8, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use of Predicate on a C# Generic List – or Not (Chris "Cruz" Taylor)
• How to Edit Your CSPROJ File from VS (Mike Snow)
• Data Generator for SQL Server Sparse Columns (Gert Drapers)
• Model Your Application, not Just Your Data, with Oslo and LINQ to Entities, Entity SQL, Parameterized Store Queries and SQL Injection (Julie Lerman)
• When Is a Type not a Type? (Brad Wilson)
• Fluent NHibernate and Collections Mapping (Marek Blotny)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #6 (Eric Gunnerson)
• Simple Class to Parse Twitter with LINQ (Tim Hibbard)
• EventHandler Extension Method (Nate Kohari)
• Immutable Data Structures in C# and F# (Tomas Petricek)
• CC.NET Community Plugins – Release v1.0.22534.2 Beta and NHibernate Mapping Generator – Release v0.4 (CodePlex)
• The Basic Syntax of F# – Keywords and Constructs (Brian McNamara)

 

Web Development

• Quick List of Some Blog Entries Comparing .NET WebForms to .NET MVC (Chris “Cruz” Taylor)
• IPrincipal (User) ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC for Easier Testing (Scott Hanselman)
• Accessing the DropDownList Control’s SelectedIndex or SelectedValue Properties Selects the First ListItem (Scott Mitchell)
• Chapter 2 – Understanding Routing and Chapter 2 – Building a Simple ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 Now Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Types (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSLINQ (K. Scott Allen)
• Take Charge of Your Security (Phil Haack)
• Cleaner Domain Objects with MVC RC DropDownList Improvement and Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult (Billy McCafferty)
• Sparklines for Your Favourite SVN Repos (Tobin Harris)
• HttpWebRequest, Its Request Stream, and Sending Data in Chunks (Jeffrey Richter)
• A Quicker Way to Create Custom SharePoint List Templates (Andrew Connell)
• How to Put a Background Image in a hr for IE with jQuery (Daniela Panfili)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Of Moles and Tainted Peanuts (James Whittaker)
• Part One – A Response to “Traps & Pitfalls of Agile Development – A Non-Contrarian View” and Part Two and Part Three and Part Four and Part Five and Conclusion (Chris “Cruz” Taylor)
• Writing Books on Time and on Budget (J.D. Meier)
• The Other Interface (Kenneth Roper)
• Professional Values (Jacob Proffitt)
• Refactoring: Rename Method (Gunnar Peipman)
• Elegant Code (Oren Eini)
• Some Questions for Technology Managers… How Healthy Are Your Teams? (Eric Hexter) – Link of the Day
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Unless You Plan on Learning More About Wheels (Jeff Atwood)
• 8 Ways to Be a Better Programmer in 6 Minutes (Leon Bambrick)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Rebecca Parsons Explains Why It’s Never Too Early to Think About Performance (Sara Peyton)

 

Silverlight

• Screencast: Live Mesh Video Player (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight LOB Development Patterns (James Allderidge)
• Background: Extension Methods, Silverlight & LINQ (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Microsoft Teams and Products on Twitter (Adam Kinney)
• A Little Love for NHForge.org (Tobin Harris)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell, Processes, and Piping (James Kovacs)
• #requires Your Scripts (Marcel Ortiz Soto)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Microsoft Smartphone: No. A Microsoft Phone Chassis: Yes (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft My Phone Service Appears Briefly, Disappears (Paul Thurrott)
• An Open Letter to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Microsoft "Fix It" Automatically Takes the Steps to Fix Problems for You (Adam Pash)
• How Well Does Windows 7 Handle 512MB? (Ed Bott)
• Clarius Labs – Release: WLW Cross-Post Plugin (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Blogger Releases "Windows Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter" (WIM2VHD) for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Desktop Gadgets for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Tag You’re It! (A New App for Your Phone) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• IE8: Compatibility List FAQ (Scott Dickens)

 

More Link Collections

• Discoveries This Week 02/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 289 (Sam Gentile)
• Visual Studio Links #106 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for February 6, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 7, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for February 06, 2009 — #509 and Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2009 — #510 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for Feburary 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links 2009-02-07 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Java from a .NET Developer’s Perspective (Chinh Do)
• Link Listing – February 6, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.02.08 (yuanjian)
• Links (2/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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