Dew Drop – September 14, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• CSLA .NET updates: 3.7.1 Beta 3 and 3.8.0 Alpha 2 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 5 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• NH Prof: Post v1.0 Ideas (Oren Eini)
• Grotesque F# Code – I (Chris Smith)
• BOOK – ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework – AGAIN! (Joe Stagner)

 

Web / Cloud Development

• Building a class browser with Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 5 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Get Started with Windows Azure TODAY! (Windows Azure Team)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (4 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• ServerControlWithSprinklesAndBacon Part 1. (Scott Galloway) – Anything with bacon gets… Link of the Day
• Setting Up You Forms Based Authentication Database (Dave M. Bush)
• Functional Construction for ASP.NET Web Forms (Keith Dahlby)
• Using the jQuery ProgressBar Widget in ASP.NET Applications (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should APIs Always Be Backwards Compatible? (Adam DuVander)
• Easier Unit Testing of WCF Services with ServiceTestContext (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• The Secret Of Being A Great Apprentice (Alan Skorkin)
• TDD: Testing sub classes and TDD: Test Only Constructors (Mark Needham)
• Building NH Prof: The background story (Oren Eini)
• The Rake’s Progress – Part II (Michael Nichols)
• Coming to Consensus (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Top 10 Enterprise Architecture Mistakes (Mike Walker)
• Influence the future of NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Linking in Confluence, Gray Charts and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• The Power of Patterns and Practices (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Toolkit in the wild – Sunday Night Football player (Jeff Wilcox)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 122: Blowhard (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show #332: NHL 2K10, Defense Grid and Scribblenauts (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 83 – PowerScripting Podcast – with Pragma Systems (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• In the Trenches: You’re Making Applications Backwards (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• More On The CodePlex Foundation (Phil Haack)
• The first AltNetWorkshop with Roy Osherove on Intro to TDD (Sebastien Lambla)
• Alt.Net Evangelism And What We Could Do Better (Ryan Svihla)

 

Database

• SQL Pretty Printer Add-In for SSMS – Review (Rhonda Tipton)
• CTE and hierarchical queries (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – Plan Caching and Schema Change – An Interesting Observation (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Important: Be careful when installing WSS August Cumulative Update (Stefan Gossner)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Feed You Should Read #3 – Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew (Greg Duncan) – Thanks, Greg, for the recommendation!
• Breaking News: Intuit To Acquire Mint (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Select –ExpandProperty (Jeffrey Snover) – More PowerShell goodness from Jeffrey.

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #432 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.06 ~ 09.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #70 (Grant Palin)
• Double Shot #539 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Link Post 110 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 9/6/2009 through 9/12/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

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