Dew Drop – June 10, 2009

 

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: Editing Data (Scott Mitchell)
• Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers (Bobby Johnson)
• 11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster (Dave Ward)
• Deploying ASP.NET Applications to Medium Trust Servers (Dan Wahlin)
• Creating an MVC Project in Visual Studio 2010 (Troy Goode)
• Tip #76: Did you know… How to hide a non-visual control in your designer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC) (Jay Kimble)
• Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC using partials – Part 1 and Part 2 – Html Layout for the Label (Eric Hexter)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Breaking All The Rules with WCF (Scott Hanselman)
• Team Foundation Server 2010 – Eventing Service – Subscribing to events (Subodh Sohoni)
• Windows 7 Libraries – Managed Code (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Very simple IronRuby MVC sample application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Jason Olson)
• F#: Useful for scripting (Mark Needham)
• What is the “VSIX Project” template? (Aaron Marten)
• From DSLs & Models to “Quadrant” w/ “Oslo” May CTP (Chris Sells)
• Coding with Security Policy in .NET 4 part 2 – Explicit uses of CAS policy (Shawn Farkas)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Zen and the Art of Project Management (Nate Kohari)
• Whats do you like most in your IoC of choice? (Andrew Stopford)
• Influencer – The Power to Change Anything (J.D. Meier)
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 2: Handling Legacy Code (Derik Whittaker)
• CAEAP just released their Enterprise Architecture Doctrine (Mike Walker)
• Defining and refining conventions (Jimmy Bogard)
• HBR on Rebuilding Trust (Brad Appleton)
• Let your Inversion of Control tool work for you (Joshua Flanagan)
• Another Refactoring Exercise: Design Patterns Recommended!-) (Brett Schuchert)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight Kit Webinars (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Bindable WPF RichText Editor with XAML/HTML Convertor (Michael Sync)
• WPF and Silverlight Difference Whitepaper (Mike Taulty)
• Bing Maps with Silverlight (Mark Harrison)
• .NET RIA Services roadmap update (Tim Heuer)
• StackPanel, DockPanel and scrolling items (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• Getting the App’s Startup Assembly in WPF Designer? (Rick Strahl)
• System.Xaml: Method calls from Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• Release Roadmap for .NET RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Master-Details with Accordion (Phani Raj)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter Vogel uses Code Generation (Carl Franklin)
• Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA (Adam Kinney)
• Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR and .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past (Charles Torre)
• Regions in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Phil Haack – ASP.NET, MVC, and Ninjas On Fire (Robert Hess)
• Interview on Windows Azure, hosted by David Giard (Jennifer Marsman)
• Two Must-See Videos from MIX09 (Frank La Vigne)
• The Vendor Client Relationship (In Real World Situations) (Max Pool)

 

Community / Events

• Slides and Links from Silverlight FireStarter DC. (Frank La Vigne)
• Updated list of conferences on the road to the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Community Tour 2010 (Steve Andrews)
• MVPs Love Bing! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• 2009 Summer Scripting Games (Osama Sajid)
• NYC .NET User Group Next Meeting -> June 18th (Stephen Forte)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell over Bing = geek coolness (Jamie Thomson)

 

Database

• Type Coercion with Windows Azure Tables, and the Twitpocalypse (Steve Marx)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Counters from System Views (Kevin McKenna)
• Are you making the most of the OUTPUT clause? (Martin Bell)
• SQL Server 2005/ SQL Server 2008 – Rebuild or Reorganize ALL Indexes in a Database (Rob Reynolds)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training (MS Downloads)
• Home grown Solution for migrating versioned documents into a SharePoint Document Library (Sean Wallbridge)

 

Miscellaneous

• A new generation of programmers begins (Brad Abrams)
• Top 100 Most Influential Twitter Tools (Jurgen Appelo)
• An Overview of Wrox Series (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Nomad.NET is a Powerful, Tabbed File Manager (The How-To Geek)
• Regular Expressions for Regular Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
• Some quick updates (Chad Myers)
• Dev Chair : Beanstalk is Subversion without the hassle (Grant Robertson)
• Adding Sidetone to Skype (Randall Maas)
• Subversion 1.6, Tree Conflicts, and the Incompatibility of Subversion 1.5: What You Need to Know (Rob Reynolds)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies – June 9, 2009 (Sanjeev Agarwal)
• Interesting Finds: June 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #365 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2009 — #610 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 9th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 329 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 9th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 30 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

Book of the Day