Dew Drop – June 3, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Ribbon: Introductory Tutorial (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Mapping – <map/> (Oren Eini)
• Updated Dbfile project on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• How to Iterate Through All the Properties of a Class (Deepak Choudhari)
• Visual Studio 2010: Multiple web.config versions (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the WPF Visualizer to debug applications in Visual Studio 2010 and An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part I) (Habib Heydarian)
• yield return and Continuation-Passing Style (Kirill Osenkov)
• Delayed execution with yield, or “How to abdicate, cede, and relent” (Kyle Baley)
• F#: Tuples don’t seem to express intent well (Mark Needham)
• Talking Points: Building App Using .NET Workflow (Joel Reyes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dynamic Type Check (Martin Fowler)
• NDepend: Product Review (Chris Brandsma)
• I Hardly Recognize You (Eric Brechner – a.k.a. I.M. Wright)
• nDepend and CruiseControl.NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Balsamiq Awesomeness (Tim Boland)
• Specifying Inversion of Control through Contracts for Interfaces (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Levels of Control (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Putting code where people can find it (Mark Needham)
• When Side Effects and Laziness Collide (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Pragmatic Patterns for Architects (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts? (Roy Osherove)
• Castle ActiveRecord and registering classes at runtime (Ryan Svihla)
• Don’t Ask Me If It’s Possible (K. Scott Allen)
• Don’t Cross the Streams (Scott Densmore)

 

Web Development

• Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab (Alex Chitu) – Looks like MS Expression Web 3’s SuperPreview.
• jQuery Autocomplete with a Hidden Value (Ben Scheirman)
• New Storage Features Come to Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• jQuery – Dialog (Dave M. Bush)
• Bing Maps for Enterprise (formerly Virtual Earth) Licensing FAQ (Chris Pietschmann)
• ASP.NET MVC and the templated partial view (death to ASCX) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
• Update on Windows Azure (Joe Stagner)
• Learning jQuery 1.3 Review (Steve Pietrek)
• An Alternative Approach to Strongly Typed Helpers (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Branching out, or "How to live life outside ASP.NET MVC" (Kyle Baley)
• Simple group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Liuz)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• FAQ: how to prevent {x:Null} from being written by XAML writer (Rob Relyea)
• Image generation in PHP using WPF (Timmy Kokke)
• Robozzle (Coding4Fun)
• Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1 (Tom)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight: Pong and Silverlight and WPF: The XAML Continuum (Mike Taulty)
• Fluent Silverlight – Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged (Ray Houston)
• Upcoming SilverUnit Preview (Roy Osherove)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 10? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• .NET Rocks! – Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4 (Carl Franklin)
• Louis Lafreniere: Next Generation Buffer Overrun Protection with gs++ (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET # 114 – How to Create a Custom Performance Counter (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “I hardly recognize you” (Devon Musgrave)
• Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko – Qex – Symbolic SQL Query Exploration (Peli de Halleux)
• Episode 71 – PowerScripting Podcast – Doug Hazelman from Veem (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Quinton Wall on "The Seed of Hope" (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial – Lesson 1 (Part 1) (Me)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 5 available (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Community / Events

• Surprise Philly ALT.NET Meeting With Scott Bellware! (Brian Donahue)
• You’re Invited for Half-Day Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs Across the US (Bruce Kyle)
• Surprises abound at Microsoft’s E3 Press Briefing (Chris Poirier)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 6/10/2009 – Evan Light on BDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Will Code for Green contest (Sara Ford)
• Winner of the F# Programming Contest (Kean Walmsley)
• Prism Training Class July 7-9 (Joe Stagner)

 

Database

• Solution: SQL Server Report Builder 2.0 Errors (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Connect Item – Vote for Feature Request Function TRIM (Pinal Dave)
• Your testbed has to have the same volume of data as on production in order to simulate normal usage (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free "Bing" Search Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• BingTones for your phone (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Hardware Launches Exclusive Features for Windows 7 (MS PressPass)
• YouTube XL: YouTube launches TV sized video browser (Brad Linder)
• Free Training for Getting Started as a Developer (Bruce Kyle)
• Homer Simpson’s Toothpick Method of Blogging (Michael Krakovskiy)
• Achieve Your Goals by Putting Them Online (Darrell Etherington)
• Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7 (Katie Frigon)
• Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD to include Xbox Live games? (Kip Kniskern)
• You 2.0 Free E-Book (J.D. Meier)
• iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 1 Tutorial and Stage 2 Tutorial (Craig Giles)
• I Stopped Reading Your Blog Years Ago and Jobs at Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Registered Member News: The Microsoft Action Pack is Going Digital – 02June06 (John McClelland)
• Windows 7: More From Wzor (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time (Steve Clayton)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 2 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 will follow the same RTM, GA dates as Windows 7 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Contributing to PHP Open Source Projects – Weird? (Joe Stagner)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds, June 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #360 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 02, 2009 — #606 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 2nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 2nd June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/1/2009+ (Sam Gentile)

 

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