Day: May 21, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez)
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson)
• General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 3: ScatterView (Jennifer Marsman)
• WinFormsMVC (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• IronRuby CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronRuby 0.5 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Entity Framework 4 Persistence-Ignorance First Look (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window and VS2010 Fix for "not all anonymous methods are the same" (Daniel Moth)
• First few VS 2010 extensions are now available (Quan To)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization (Adrian)
• VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Released (Michael Ceranski)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy (Gunnar Peipman)
• Parameter Count Mismatch Error (Shahar Yair)
• T4 Toolbox: LINQ to SQL schema generator (Oleg Sych)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? (Oren Eini)
• An Agile CM Manifesto: Lame Oxymoron or Long Overdue? (Brad Appleton)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Introduction and Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit 2nd Ed. (Grant Palin)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. (Roy Osherove)
• Caricature Ready for Beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• To CI or not to CI, did not realize it was still even a question? (Derik Whittaker)
• Throttling the Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• NET RIA Services: Building Data-Driven Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight3 and Microsoft ASP.NET (Jeff Barnes)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Progressbar (Dave M. Bush)
• Book review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Simone Chiaretta)
• CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables (Dave Schinkel)
• Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• Password FieldTemplates for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List<> with Dates using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (John Resig)
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing (Maarten Balliauw)
• FireAtlas – FireBug for ASP.NET Ajax (Joe Stagner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability (Bob Familiar)
• 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Brian Keller)
• MetraTech: Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow and Luke Hoban: Latest version of F# Released – What’s the story? What’s next? and Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit (Charles Torre)
• New Screencast: Custom Sprocs in Entity Framework (Dan Rigsby)
• Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• History of User Experience (Pixel8 Podcast)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary (Oren Eini)
• Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CMAP Hands On Labs Group Meeting – Silverlight – Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: ) (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS and SSRS Usergroup Available Online (Simon Sabin)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID (Rob Teixeira)

 

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tips: Finding Extra Outputs From Your Script (James Brundage)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Blogging about Pex, let us know! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons (Josh Lowensohn)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 3 – Detailed Notes (Justin Etheredge)
• CardSpace v2 moving into a new role? (Keith Brown)
• Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud (Leena Rao)
• A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Learn iPhone Development for Free (Rob Bazinet)
• How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft’s Beginner’s Guide To Cloud Computing (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2009 — #597 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 20th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• CloudNews for May 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day