Day: October 24, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Axiom, XNA and RenderToTexture (Michael Cummings)
• VS2010 Beta 2 : Pin to Source for debugging – COOL! But with a caveat (Julie Lerman)
• Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it! (Peter Kellner)
• How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition) (Peter Kellner)
• Extension Methods Ain’t Trojan Horses – A Tale on a Covariant City Built in and Protected By C# 4.0 (Bart de Smet)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Complex numbers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Machine.Migrations Changes (Aaron Jensen)

 

Web Development

• ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Joe Cartano)
• Designing a High Performance Windows Azure Service! (David Lemphers)
• Rich Tooltips With jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
• Easily Convert Between HTML and RGB Colors using JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Learn Like A Teacher. Teach Like A Learner. (Rajiv Popat)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 5 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 10 resources to learn Moq (Simone Chiaretta) – Link of the Day
• How far behind are Microsoft developer frameworks in terms of design? (Scott Koon)
• Testing End Points: Integration tests vs Contract tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile for one: The Personal Story ‘Wall’ In Action (Leon Bambrick)
• Spec Explorer 1.0 – A “Visual tool for modeling software behavior and generating test suites from those models” (Greg Duncan)
• Dev Anti Pattern: Unworkable Machine (Roy Osherove)
• TypeMOQ API (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Tip: DataContext Comment (Josh Smith)
• New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• 10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3 (Silverlight Team)
• New WPF Features: Jumplists (Lester Lobo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: Ward Bell and John Stame on using Silverlight on the UFC Project and MSDN geekSpeak: Windows Mobile 6 with Jim Wilson (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout! (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight FireStarter (Part 1 of 9): Event Kick Off and (Part 2 of 9): Keynote and (Part 3 of 9): Key Silverlight Scenarios and (Part 4 of 9): Expression 3 Overview and (Part 5 of 9): Sketch Flow and (Part 6 of 9): Toolkit & Controls and (Part 7 of 9): RIA Services and (Part 8 of 9): Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys and (Part 9 of 9): Q&A Panel (Emily Gibson)
• What’s new in the WPF and Silverlight "Cider" Designer in VS2010 beta2 and Graphics improvements in WPF 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Herding Code 63: Victory in Software Development with K Scott Allen (Jon Galloway)
• Screencast – What’s new in the Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 (Julie Lerman)
• Do Not Fear Confrontation (Roy Osherove)

 

Community / Events

• Northeast Roadshow: Taskbar Deep-dive (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Link to SQL Server Book Online – BOL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Organizing Your PowerShell Scripts and Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Happy Birthday Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Wait Chain Traversal Debugging Extension for WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Read Between The Pixels – HLSL Kill Pixel Shader (Rene Schulte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 23, 2009 and Interesting Find: October 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #461 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 — #716 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.23 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 23rd October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #568 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 383 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day