Dew Drop – August 11, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Precedence vs order, redux (Eric Lippert)
• RunAs in C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications? (Tess Ferrandez)
• Building a Hybrid C# / IronPython App Without Dynamic Type and Compiling Python Packages into Assemblies (Harry Pierson)
• EF4 – New Properties for Entity Properties? (Julie Lerman)
• Rough Notes on Unity (Mike Taulty)

 

Web Development

• August JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Siesta: Painless REST via ASP.NET MVC (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Engineering POV: IE6 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• 5 Different Ways of Showing and Hiding Content of an ASP.NET Panel using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Louis DeJardin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Field Guide to Team Distribution (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring for Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Web Work 101: Communication Methods (Celine Roque)
• Choose The Right Goals (Davy Brion)
• Get a Rails-Stylee Interactive Shell For Your NHibernate Backed Domain Model (Tobin Harris)
• Dreyfus Model: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Planning Poker – An Agile Estimation Tool (Michael Ceranski)
• The benefits of XCopy deployment (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 10 : Extract Method (Sean Chambers)
• UI Patterns Refactored – Divide and Conquer (Mendelt Siebenga)
• DDDD: Distributing A Single Bounded Context (Jonathan Oliver)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients (Beth Massi)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing with Textures, Transformations, and Realism (Rod Stephens)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vishwas Lele on Real-World Azure (Carl Franklin)
• Inside Windows 7: Reliability, Performance and PerfTrack (Charles Torre)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast #71 – Talking Silverlight with Tim Heuer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Daryl Zuniga and Mike Barnett – Xml Documentation from Code Contracts for .Net (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Countdown to PDC09: Discounts, Workshops, and Tweets (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 24: Facebook, IPhone, Zune, SkyFinder (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Presenting Expression for Developers on a European ReMix Tour (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow of Silverlight Goodness Comes to DC (and a bunch of other places) (Frank La Vigne)
• Events this Week – August 10th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MICROSOFT ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Zhiming Xue)
• MVP Leads Love Twitter! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• Using Multi-Value Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft delivers test versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Mary-Jo Foley)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Developer Tip Get column names for a SQL query (Jonathan Cogley)
• SQL2008 R2 – Whats New – Unicode Compression (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Discussion – Effect of Missing Identity on System – Real World Scenario (Pinal Dave)
• A PG blog Dedicated to SSRS Integration with SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• Why Use Named Pipes? (K. Brian Kelley)
• Column order doesn’t matter… generally, but – IT DEPENDS! (Kimberly Tripp)

 

Miscellaneous

• Get Some Green For Your Green-Themed Site (Adam DuVander)
• Test Google’s New Search Infrastructure (Alex Chitu)
• The Lounge’s James Avery on Bootstrapping Your Own Company (Bobby Johnson)
• VMWare Acquires SpringSource (Cameron Christoffers)
• Easy Transfer makes the Windows 7 migration easier (Debra Shinder)
• Coming Soon: Trilogy Stickers (Jeff Atwood)
• Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated) (Jason Kincaid)
• Zune HD hits FCC in prolific photo shoot, 16GB and 32GB capacities (Ross Miller)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Listmania-ed) (Nick Berardi)
• Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4) (Julie Lerman)
• Xbox 360 System Update now available (Larry Hyrb)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets Consolidated! Azure, Win7 and TFS, OH MY! (Angela Binkowski)
• LINKBLOG for August 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #409 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 353 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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