Dew Drop – July 22, 2009

 

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Getting Started (Scott Mitchell)
• Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript redux using the Flickr Services API (Brian Reindel)
• jHtmlArea – The all NEW HTML WYSIWYG Editor for jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• jQuery Splitter (Dave M. Bush)
• Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Reordering invoice lines using jqGrid and TableDND extension (Gunnar Peipman)
• Running a WCF Service on IIS 7 (Dan Wahlin)
• Computing with JavaScript Web Workers (John Resig)
• Gestalt: Ruby and Python in the browser, again (Jimmy Schementi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mercurial vs. SVN (Charles Chen)
• Git-TFS Integration – Background (James Deville)
• Bottlenecks (Anne Epstein)
• The Tale of the Lazy Architect (Oren Eini)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 2: How (Theory) (Derick Bailey)
• The Project Date – Kill It! (Kirk Knoernschild) – Link of the Day
• What is Cadence? (Karl Scotland)
• Use Code Analysis to measure the quality of sample code (Habib Heydarian)
• Braindump on the Event Aggregator Pattern (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Good Lazy and Bad Lazy and Coding: Quick feedback (Mark Needham)
• Planning for Feature-Complete Deadlines (Jurgen Appelo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Catching the .NET Service Bus part 1: Exposing a service on the bus (Alex Thissen)
• Oracle provider Beta Available! (Cameron Skinner)
• VB.NET Nullable Value Types (Dave M. Bush)
• Building a Business Object Base Class and Formatting Text Files and Populating a TreeView Control from XML (Deborah Kurata)
• R# Refactoring Steps For Introducing a Const (Howard Dierking)
• The Most Amazing Visual Studio Add-In Ever (JP Hamilton)
• Instantiating types with no public constructors (Kirill Osenkov)
• Bing Desktop Translator using C# and VB.NET (Shoban Kumar)
• NHibernate Trick (Tobin Harris)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Tip of the Day #108 – How to Create an Out of Browser Application. (Mike Snow)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store (Brad Abrams)
• New controls in Silverlight 3 (Cheryl Simmons)
• Creating Games with Silverlight: A Simple Shooter (Coding4Fun)
• Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released! (Sam)
• Download Expression Studio 3 (Taimur Asad)
• Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo and FloatableWindow source on CodePlex (Tim Heuer)
• CSLA .NET 3.7 released with Silverlight 3 support (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 3’ on Blend 3: Videos on Blend and SketchFlow… in Dutch, French and English (Christian Schormann)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Michael Isard – Inside Dryad (Charles Torre)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Opportunity in a gorilla suit” (Devon Musgrave)
• Education Labs release Windows Live Moodle Plug-in and Introducing the Education Labs group (Nic Fillingham)
• Radio TFS 24: Team Build with William Bartholomew (Radio TFS)
• Gestalt – Nishant Kothary and Joshua Allen (Robert Hess)
• Lean and Kanban Videos (Roy Osherove)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Singapore’s 50 Successful Developers (Kit Kai)
• Take the survey and help shape the next wave of Web Guidance from Microsoft’s P&P team. (Joe Stagner)
• Meetup in Philadelphia with Jon Kern! (Corey Haines)

 

PowerShell

• URLs for PowerShell Core Help Topics (June Blender)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Value Calculator (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive (Alex Chitu)
• Getting Ready for Windows 7 Part 1: Why Be Ready for Windows 7? and Part 2: Microsoft Programs to Help Get Apps Compatible and Blogs to Watch for Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• It’s official, Windows 7 will RTM on August 6 – family pack confirmed (Lee Mathews)
• Outlook 2010 jumplist in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft’s fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see slides (Sumeeth Evans)
• Virtual Camaraderie – A Persistent Video "Portal" for the Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #395 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 — #649 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2009 – 2 — #650 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 21st July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 32 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

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