Dew Drop – June 9, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers (MS Downloads)
• 780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate – Get Thou Out Of My Database – 2nd Edition (Oren Eini)
• Customizing User Controls with Smart Tag feature (Balamurali Balaji)
• What’s New in Globalization in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Melitta Andersen)
• Entity Framework Gotchya Revisited (John Papa)
• “Out Of Memory” Does Not Refer to Physical Memory (Eric Lippert)
• My Oslo DSL Article Part 1 is Updated for May 2009 CTP (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 3 (Jason Meridth)
• Getting Better Sound Capabilities in .NET 3.0 (Laks Schabse)
• How to display the environment variables for a process in the Visual Studio debugger (Habib Heydarian)

 

Web Development

• Create a Popup Calendar in ASP.NET (Anmol Gupta)
• Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 – Beta (x86) (MS Downloads)
• Google Checkout Custom Control (Justin Finch)
• 15 Books You Must Have If You Are Doing ASP.NET Web Development (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Tip #75: Did you know…How to maintain scrollposition after post back? (Deepak Verma)
• A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Windows Azure Blob Storage) (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC HttpModule Registration Under IIS Integrated Mode vs. Classic Mode (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API – With No Usage Quotas (Michael Manoochehri)
• Sneak Peek at ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution (Nick Berardi)
• AspNetHostingPermission Security Exception Fix in IIS7 (Dave Burke)
• Review: Web Form Design (Grant Palin)
• jQuery – Modal Dialog (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC: Testing Base Controller Methods (Steve Horn)
• Using the Web Platform Installer and the Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (Al Pascual)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Model View Presenter (MVP) design pattern and data binding (John Charles Olamendy)
• WCF defaults stifles loose coupling (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Analyzing a performance problem – Is a prisoner dangerous? (Oren Eini)
• UppercuT – TeamCity Integration – Part 1 (Create a TeamCity Project) and Part 2 (Create a Build Configuration) and Part 3 (Run the Build) and Part 4 (Code Drop / Artifacts of the Build) (Rob Reynolds)
• When Do I Use Interfaces? (K. Scott Allen)
• Metrics of Moment (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Patterns of software engineering workflow (part 1) (Corey Ladas)
• Interfaces with static methods, reducing the cost of extensibility (Sebastian Lambla) – Link of the Day
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Handling Legacy Code (Derik Whittaker)
• Hudson Continuous Integration Server (Eric Anderson)
• Using interfaces and base classes in different assembly using vsewss 1.3 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Book Review: Beautiful Teams (Jim Holmes)
• Productivity Personas (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 3.5 SP1 Software 3D Leak Fix Available (Jordan)
• RIA Services RoadMap (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did you know that if you’re an MSDN Subscriber you can get Telerik WPF controls FREE ? (Joe Stagner)
• Building a Viewbox-like control (Mike Taulty)
• What is Expression? (Silverlight Team)
• Build an Out Of Browser Client with Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• Glimpse for Silverlight – Viewing Exceptions and Binding Errors (Karl Shifflett)
• How to Disable the Focus Rectangle on WPF Controls (Laks Schabse)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Code Camp Room Planner (Michael C. Neel)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• What’s coming in EntLib 5.0 and a sneak peek into the new EntLib Developer Notes? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial – Lesson 1 (Part 2 of 2) (Reposted by Me)
• ARCast.TV – Craig Morris on Mobile Application Architectures (Bob Familiar)
• The Coding4Fun Show: Physics Helper for Silverlight by Andy Beaulieu (Brian Peek)
• Expert to Expert: Inside Bling – A C#-based library to simplify WPF programming (Charles Torre)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #116: Learning Hudson: Setting up to run and report Unit Test results (Derik Whittaker)
• Episode 73 – PowerScripting Podcast – Exchange MVP Michael Smith (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Ping 15: Project Natal, Win 7 launch, SEO toolkit, Dev Kit for WinMo, Netbooks (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 8th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• Calculating the size of Twitter’s status table (Jamie Thomson)
• Wot no SCOPE_GUID() function?? and Returning GUID values to ADO.NET clients (Martin Bell)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "PoshBing" PowerShell Library for Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine (Blake Handler)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows 7 vs. Apple Snow Leopard in upgrade wars (Todd Bishop)
• Note to Apple – Thanks for Nothing (Eric Shupps)
• Expect 250% Firefox speed blast after 3.5 RC release (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• iPhone 3.0 vs. Palm Pre vs. Windows Phones (WM 6.5) (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Product Name Generator (Steve Clayton)
• Windows 7 Multi-touch proof of concept with Yell UK (Mike Taulty)
• We’ve Got A Whole Lotta Bing Stickers. Want One? (Michael Arrington)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #364 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 327 and New and Notable 328 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 8th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 8th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2009 — #609 (Dave Campbell)

 

Book of the Day