Dew Drop – July 30, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Element to Element Data Binding (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Using ChangePropertyAction to fade in loaded Images (Adam Kinney)
• How do I enable my Silverlight 3 application to run Out of the Browser? (Dave Isbitski)
• Making Silverlight 3 Application Code More Compatible with Blend (Dan Wahlin) – Link of the Day
• New snippets for Silverlight and WPF (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight 3 Out of Browser Feature (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Deep Dive into GPU Acceleration (András Velvárt)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• STM.NET (MS Downloads) – MSDN DevLab of Software Transactional Memory
• Frequent Cause of WCF Exception "The connection was closed unexpectedly" (Billy McCafferty)
• VB.NET and CSharp Refactoring (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010: Database projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• One Of My Favorite NHibernate 2.1 Features (Davy Brion)
• Debugging 101: How to skip over code in the Visual Studio Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• How to make a Linq to Sql query twice as fast… (Wesley Bakker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Macto, a module features spec sheet for authentication (Oren Eini)
• Kathy’s Wrong! (Daniel Waldschmidt) – A rebuttal of some information presented in Visual Studio Magazine about code coverage.
• Kanban Features in VersionOne (Dave Laribee)
• Modeling people and organizations: Class Party (Gunnar Peipman)
• Maintainability, Learnability, Component, Layering (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Web Development

• Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip (Brad Colbow)
• WebResource Access in ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
• JavaScript: Easily "Extend" an Object/Element (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! Glenn Howes Sets Us Straight on iPhone Dev! (Carl Franklin)
• Video: Progressively Enhance AJAX Applications with Google Web Toolkit and GQuery (Ray Cromwell)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #131: Exploring NDjango: Setting up NDjango for usage (Alex Pedenko)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #63 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 55: Nate Kohari brings Your Moment of Zen (Jon Galloway)
• 10-4 episode 29: Workflow Web Services (Ron Jacobs)
• ThirstyDeveloper #70 – Sergio on JavaScript (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Test-first and Test-driven conversation with JB Rainsberger (Corey Haines)
• Microsoft Tag API Announcement (Benjamin Gauthey)

 

Community / Events

• Why I Work for Microsoft Research (Rob Knies)
• Hey Microsoft Coders! Free Stuff (Training, Books, Magazines) to Sharpen your skills! (Angela Binkowski)
• Wait, you’re allowed to use humor at Microsoft? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 Adobe AIR apps that make you more productive (Don Reisinger)
• Windows 7 first look: More than just "Vista, fixed" (Ed Bott)
• Book Review: Outliers (Robert L. Bogue)
• How Do You Attract Great Developers through a Job Ad? (Russell Ball)
• Our Wiki Engine is now available as a project on CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Three Things to Know About Office Web Apps (Sarah Perez)
• "All I do is work here" (Seth Godin)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2009 — #658 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #63 (Grant Palin)
• CloudNews for 29th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: July 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #401 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day