Dew Drop – August 28, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Genetic Algorithm to Do Consultant Scheduling in C# (Mike Gold)
• So, What Is This Boo language Anyway? and NHibernate tips & tricks: Efficiently selecting a tree (Oren Eini)
• Assembly List Import/Export Reflector Addin (Jason Haley)
• Build Notification, Visual Studio, & Snarl (Christopher Bennage)
• Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Running T4 Templates with MSBuild (Steve Andrews)
• How to trick Visual Studio to not show line numbers for blank lines? (Sara Ford)
• F# First Class Events – Changes on Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dynamic Part Instantiation in MEF (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Hidden gems in the gaming starter kit (Marc Schweigert)

 

Web Development

• How To Get Started With Selenium Core And ASP.NET MVC (Derick Bailey)
• Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? (Simon St. Laurent)
• jQuery: $.post, ‘jsonp’ and cross-domain requests (Mark Needham)
• Walking the tight rope (Bertrand Le Roy)
• DYK: You can remove the ASP.NET MVC version from the Response Header (Jason N. Gaylord)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows UX Guidelines (MS Downloads)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Lazy loading (Oren Eini)
• You are your Institutional Knowledge (Anne Epstein)
• In Response To DNR 476 (Jesse Liberty)
• Have You Met Your Dog, Patches? (Jeff Atwood)
• The Singleton: Be Careful How You Use It (Ben Yoder)
• Agile Testing with VSTS 2010 and TMap: Part 00 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• What’s the Difference? Part Three: fixed vs. fixed (Eric Lippert)
• Testing Private & Protected Members of a Class (John Teague)
• StructureMap and MassTransit Together (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Building Remarkable Work and Play Environments – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 27 : Remove God Classes (Sean Chambers)
• Reflection-Based Performance Analysis (Steve Andrews)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book (Brad Abrams)
• Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements (Carole Snyder)
• Silverlight Spy 3 updated (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using Silverlight DeepZoom for a Document Viewer (Charles Petzold)
• Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Pie Chart Easy AS…. (Jesse Liberty)
• Your 2 cents: Silverlight Community Samples and Swivel Behavior now posted in Expression Gallery (John Papa)
• Playing with Shaders: Creating a water effect (Marlon Grech)
• Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend (Dan Wahlin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Radio TFS 25: Team Test with Anthony Borton (Radio-TFS)
• 3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! (Arpan Shah)
• Top 5 reasons to run for the PASS Board of Directors (Joe Webb)
• Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City (Sumeeth Evans)
• Agile2009 Drawing to a Close (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

 

Database

• How Many Spindles Do You Need? (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices – Implementation of Database Object Schemas (Pinal Dave)
• Did You Know: What’s a SQL Server Education Worth? (Kalen Delaney)

 

SharePoint

• Design Patterns For SharePoint : Entry 1 (Charles Chen)
• Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Dan Winter)
• SharePoint as a development platform – 7 reasons why I like it … (Joris Poelmans)

 

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Virtual PC 2007 To Run On Windows 7 (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Bing SDK for iPhone & Mac (Blake Handler)
• GIMP 2.7 beta released (Brad Linder)
• The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials (Vailancio Rodrigues)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Disables DCOM modifications (Bob Fox)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #422 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2009 — #676 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 27, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (8/27/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – AUG ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for 27th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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