Month: July 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing Rx (Linq to Events) AKA Reactive Framework (Jafar Husain)
• Embarcadero adds Windows 7 multi-touch to RAD tools (David Worthington)
• Microsoft releases second, ‘experimental’ version of .Net 4 Beta 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• My ideal IDE (Jimmy Bogard)
• RIM Releases New Plug-ins for Eclipse, Visual Studio (Justin Sargent)
• AI with c# and LINQ (Coding4Fun)
• Inferred Typing and Coalesce and Ternary Operators (Deborah Kurata)
• Use UML Sequence Diagrams in Team System 2010 to reverse engineer your code (Habib Heydarian)
• Closing an anonymous method to a known delegate type (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Dynamic Overlay Icons and Progress Bars (Yochay Kiriaty)
• A perfect match TFS and DLR (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Plotting Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• T4MVC 2.4 updates: settings file, sub view folders, ActionName support and more (David Ebbo)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML (Dave M. Bush)
• Subtext Security Issue and Patch (Phil Haack)
• ADO.NET Data Services With ASP.NET (Deepak Kapoor)
• Spark output caching (Louis DeJardin)
• Query the cloud with PHP (PHPLinq and Windows Azure) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Implicit Conversions and LINQ to JSON (James Newton-King)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Models, Anemic Domain Models, and Transaction Scripts (Oh My!) (Charles Chen)
• What is maintainable? (Oren Eini)
• Succeeding with mediocrity (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Incremental Delivery and Continuous Design (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Traits That Make A Good Development Manager (Alan Skorkin)
• The Big Game (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Introducing Hiro, the World’s Fastest IOC Container, Part III: The Container Itself (Philip Laureano)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• Language Type Systems (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Team Office Hours (Kris Gray)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 13: The New Class Library Project (Brad Abrams)
• Quake in Silverlight 3.0 (Silverlight Show)
• RIA Services With Silverlight 3 – Part 1 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• OMG, where do I start? (Jesse Liberty)
• Pay Attention to the Foreach Implicit Casting (moshe)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside the Active Template Library (ATL) Security Update (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #130: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate complex expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• MSDN Flash Podcast (Mike Ormond)
• Water Cooler Demo – SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations (Kirk Evans)
• Netcast 18 – Configuration Wizard (Todd O. Klindt)

Community / Events

• patterns & practices Summit 2009 (Ade Miller)
• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint Conference 2009 Edition (Andrew Connell)
• Events This Week – July 28th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• What happens when you get 5000 nerds together? (Ed Wilson)

PowerShell

• Functions that Create Functions in Powershell (Harry Pierson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 3) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• How to find the version level of SharePoint (Penny Coventry)
• Book Review: SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes (Robert L. Bogue)

Database

• A Free SCOM Alternative for SQL Monitoring (Michael Ceranski)
• Instance design; Where to do your work as a DBA and DB Developer (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Copy Database With Data – Generate T-SQL For Inserting Data From One Table to Another Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7: Don’t Discount the Little Things! (Brad Jones)
• Stack Overflow Search – Now 61% Less Crappy (Jeff Atwood)
• Our first take on MSFT-YHOO: Less than meets the eye? (Kip Kniskern)
• Looking for a QA Job? Come Work for Telligent! (Jim Holmes)
• ASP.NET MVC T-Shirt by CodeClimber (Simone Chiaretta)
• Race To Market Developer Challenge (Sunshine)
• Economics of Cloud Services (Sridhar Vembu)
• Free eBook – Developer-Evangelism.com (Joe Stagner)
• The New IDE (Tim Boland)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #400 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2009 — #657 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 346 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 28th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: July 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day