Dew Drop – June 26, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing console output from a Windows form in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Mmm, Curry (Eric Lippert)
• Walkthrough: Adding an existing Visual Studio solution to another solution (Habib Heydarian)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK (Vikas Goyal)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008 (Mark Miller)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• F# in Silverlight (Luke Hoban)
• WPF 2D Physics Plus (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight Canvas Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• Expression Design Resources (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Chart Controls!!! (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000! (Tim Heuer)
• My Sillveright-Prism Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Josh Twist)
• Creating NikeClone with Silverlight, Part 1 (Faisal Hossian Khan)

 

Web Development

• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• OSX MonoDevelop MVC? (Tobin Harris)
• A Better SMTP Development Server (Lee Dumond)
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud (Michael Ceranski)
• The “Anti-For” Campaign (Matthew Podwysocki)
• jQuery Dialog – With Validation Controls and Does jQuery Make Us Lazy? (Dave M. Bush)
• JSON Hijacking (Phil Haack)
• Declaring Security (Eric Lawrence)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 13 (Rajiv Popat)
• Safe refactoring: Removing object initializer, introducing builder (Mark Needham)
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time? (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Becoming a better developer, or “How to sidestep a question” (Kyle Baley)
• Pair Programming and Pandemics (Pouya Yousefi)
• Programmer Confidence and Arrogance (Jay Fields)
• How To? Highly Complex Query Generating Based On Security Needs (Derick Bailey)
• Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People (Chris Love)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit Podcast – Nationwide – Kevin Fisher – AVP of Product Management – Value of Alignment (Bob Payne)
• Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software (Charles Torre)
• Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session (Brian Peek)
• The NY Times/Silverlight Open API toolkit (Jit Ghosh)
• Commanding in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)

 

Community / Events

• Free Microsoft Hyper-V Training Course 6319 (Blake Handler)
• ScrumMaster Certification Course in Waltham, MA (Bob Familiar)
• Pragmatic Patterns for Architects: Recordings Available (David Makogon)
• Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Unity using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• MSDN Webcast: Enterprise Library 4.1 (Lindsay Rutter)

 

SharePoint

• Belgian MVP Releases SharePoint Tool Basket on CodePlex! (Lorna Williamson)
• SharePoint SP2 Update (Bob Fox)
• SharePoint BDC Part 1: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog (Tobias Zimmergren)

 

Database

• Live Meeting: Creating a Star Schema and OLAP Cubes (Trevor Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Ted Krueger)
• How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit – A DB Restore Work-around (Hugo Shebbeare)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Upgrade, Retail & Special 50% Off Pre-Order Pricing! (Blake Handler)
• Running localized versions of Small Basic (Vijaye)
• PowerPoint—Customizing the Ribbon (William Vaughn)
• Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do those upgrades really cost? (Ed Bott)
• Is programming a generic skill? (Eric Gunnerson)
• 200 Twitter Mashups (John Musser)
• Which Windows 7 version is best for you? Pre-order your copy today! (Taimur Asad)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Coding Dojo #18: Groovy Bowling Game (Mark Needham)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages (Ken Sipe)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009 — #622 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (6/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 25th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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