Month: September 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Capture Right, Middle and "X" Button Clicks (Richard Carr)
• Zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010 editor (Brian Keller)
• Using Code Snippets and Understanding Object Binding and Using Object Binding (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 02: Management, preserving and organization of manual test cases within VSTS 2010. (Clemens Reijnen)
• What Exactly Does One Do With “Oslo”? (Kraig Brockschmidt) – Link of the Day
• VS 2010 – Multi-Monitor Support (Michael Ceranski)
• Surface Developer Tip: The Core Interaction Framework (Robert Levy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #4- ATOMPub (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET] (David Anson)
• Using the PHP Toolkit with ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• behaviour-driven development (BDD) poll. (Andrew Stopford)
• SOA Patterns – Reservation (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Querying a Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (Scott Mitchell)
• Rules Of Standup – You Don’t Need To Justify Your Own Existence and Types Of Agile Projects And The Value Of Velocity (Alan Skorkin)
• Eliminate Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• .NET Naming Conventions (Josh Twist)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late and Step #4 – Start doing code reviews – Seriously (Roy Osherove)
• Should We Change the Way We Name Interfaces in .NET? (Russell Ball)
• Return False on the Happy Path and The Secret Sauce (Dave Laribee)
• Why Messaging #6: Why not … (Dru Sellers)
• It’s Generic, not Multipurpose (Sergio Pereira)
• No weekly release this week, but we’ve been busy! (Peldi Guilizzoni) – An update on Balsamiq Mockups.

Silverlight / WPF

• YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) – Source Code (Chris Cavanagh)
• .NET RIA Services Part 4: Calling methods on the Server from Silverlight. (Al Pascual)
• 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – 5 minutes of RIA Services (András Velvárt)
• Silverlight feature suggestions (Tim Heuer)
• Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues? (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide (Bob Familiar)
• George Moore: Windows Azure Business Model for Developers – An Introduction (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 59: Web Standards with Milan Negovan (Jon Galloway)
• First videos of the structured editor prototype (Kirill Osenkov)
• New DevNugget: Silverlight Navigation Applications (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Netcast #23 – Special Holiday Show (Todd O. Klindt)
• Sod This 7 – Dynamic Again (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #24 – Expression Encoder 3 – Part 2 (of 2) – Editing, Presets, Silverlight 3 players (Russell Fustino)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Workshop – “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs” (Mike Taulty)
• How I got started with SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

Database

• Deriving a list of tables in dependency order (Jamie Thomson)
• Tired of changing collations! (Martin Bell)
• A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases (Scott Mitchell)
• SQL Express Surveys (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Doloto: Making Ajax page downloads faster (Mary Jo Foley)
• Out of Beta: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The Incredible Shrinking iPod Prices Undercut The Zune HD (MG Siegler)
• Has ‘beta’ lost its meaning? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Demystify Windows 7 Migration and Upgrade Options (Zhiming Xue)
• Sale – Microsoft certification exams – 15 to 25% off! (Keith)
• Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #429 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 8th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Free Microsoft SQL Azure training and a cool Migration Wizard utility (Greg Duncan)
• New and Notable 368 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #536 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day