Month: October 2009

 

Big congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs for October!

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing TFS Basic! (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• MSXML4 SP3, now with a CAB (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex (Murray Gordon)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parsing Capital Letters (Chris Love)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Why does char convert implicitly to ushort but not vice versa? (Eric Lippert)
• C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)

 

Web Development

• Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• New AJAX Control Toolkit Release (Stephen Walther)
• Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (Robert Scoble)
• Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework (Roy Osherove)
• Hey you, developer! Learn a bit of business speak! (Oren Eini)
• Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Hire’s remorse (Eric Brechner)
• How to Excel as a Programmer (or anything else) (Dave M. Bush)
• On Crimes Against Duct-Tape, Mental Masturbation, and Pretty Boy Disclaimers (Russell Ball)
• Learning from Feedback as a Public Speaker (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Automatically stop the build for a solution when a project has failed to build (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Trigonometric Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding and Editable Collection Adapter for WPF (Paul Stovell)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: Jon Skeet on C# 4.0 (Brian Johnson)
• Hanselminutes #200 – The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #145: Getting started with Lucene.Net Search Library (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
• Great Screencast on Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)

 

Community / Events

• MVP No More (Jon Skeet) – BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO–GLE
• One Year Later – What I’ve Learned About Blogging (Lee Dumond)
• Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)

 

Database

• Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records (Scott Mitchell)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Creating PowerShell Scripts (Josh Jones)

 

SharePoint

• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)

 

Miscellaneous

• Coming Soon – Final Release of Windows XP Mode (Brandon LeBlanc)
• MSDN Blogger Releases "IE Zone Compare" for Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings (Blake Handler)
• Staying Healthy With MSN and Bing (Kristin Meldahl) – An MSN view of your HealthVault data.
• Using Windows 7 for Music Production (David Battino)
• Introducing Visio 2010 (Office Team) – I like the new Shapes Windows collapsed view… looks kinda like the toolbox in Expression Blend.
• Sample of the Week – SOko (Vijaye) – A cool Small Basic sample app.
• Get Quick Access to Windows 7’s Jump Lists From the Keyboard (The How-To Geek)
• Session 0 Isolation (Yochay Kiriaty) – App compat, services, Windows 7, and you.

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #446 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2009 — #702 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #553 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 1st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day