Dew Drop – August 6, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An introduction to UI Automation – with spooky spirographs (Samuel Jack)
• Entity Framework – N-Tier Application Patterns (Dan Simmons)
• Polymorphism in WCF (Mebyon Kernow)
• Different VS experinces and VS10 minimal theme (Andrew Stopford)
• NH Prof New Feature: Capturing DDL (Oren Eini)
• A Genius Called Rooney (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• What is .NET’s Object.GetHashCode() Used For? (Dave M. Bush)
• Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1 (Kati Iceva)
• Late-Bound Invocations with DynamicMethod (Jimmy Bogard)
• Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger and Visualize project dependencies with the Team System 2010 Architecture Explorer (Habib Heydarian)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mythical Man Month revisited, again (Andy Singleton)
• Let the fighting commence! and Do you need a framework? (Oren Eini)
• Modularity Patterns (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Bear Shaving (Mark Needham)
• Book Club: Hexagonal Architecture (Alistair Cockburn) (Mark Needham)
• Functional Refactoring and "You Can’t Get There From Here" (Michael Feathers)
• Working Software or Customer Value (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring Day 5 : Pull Up Field (Sean Chambers)
• Increasing Functional Test Coverage With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
• How To Get Started With Kanban In Software Development (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day

 

Web Development

• TextMate Theme For Aptana RadRails (Rob Conery)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon (Simone Chiaretta)
• Get early access to ASP.NET AJAX in Action, Second Edition (Dave Ward)
• Getting Up and Running with Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• PHP versus ASP.NET – Windows versus Linux – Who’s the fastest ? (Joe Stagner)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Brad Abrams)
• Text Trimming Control (Frank La Vigne)
• The power of "States" in Blend 3 (Jose Fajardo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Nate Kohari on the Zen of Project Management! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: Peter Provost on what’s coming for Architects in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #64 (Jeff Atwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #133: Learning how to Read & Write to the windows registry (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• StackOverflow DevDays 2009 (Alex Thissen)
• PDC09 – What are you waiting for??? (Frank Arrigo)
• PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)

 

Database

• Do you need to index very small table? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Get Time in Hour:Minute Format from a Datetime – Get Date Part Only from Datetime (Pinal Dave)
• Working with Excel to match data 101 (Ted Krueger)
• Rounding to the nearest 0.5 (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Keep your SharePoint site definitions minimal, really I mean it. (Joris Poelmans)

 

Windows 7

• Microsoft’s Releases "Windows XP Mode" & "Windows Virtual PC" for Windows 7 RC (Blake Handler)
• How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Version Checking (Just Don’t Do It) (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Visual Thinking Can Aid in the Learning Process (Kelsey Allen)
• Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #406 (Chris Alcock)
• Community Convergence LII (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight Cream for August 05, 2009 — #663 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 351 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 5th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Everyman Links for August 5, 2009 (Dave Burke)

 

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