Day: November 2, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some quick F# notes… (Brian McNamara)
• .Net Framework 4.0: VB.NET supports automatic properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion (Luiz Santos)
• Interesting .Net 4 thing of the day: String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() (Greg Duncan)
• VS2010 Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Collaboration… MyFavoriteNamspace (Clemens Reijnen)
• What’s new in CLR via C#, 3rd Edition as compared to the 2nd Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Dynamic Help Removed From Visual Studio 2010 (Lee Dumond) – Link of the Day
• Learning Scala via C# Part 3 – Getting Loopy (Justin Etheredge)
• C# can now consume indexed properties (Bill Wagner)
• Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• NHibernate feature: SaveOrUpdateCopy & Merge (Torkel Ödegaard)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 2: Accelerometer as a Joystick (Pete Brown)

 

Web Development

• A Sign Of The Times: The First Foreclosure API (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas via MvcContrib (Eric Hexter)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture manifesto (Simon Brown)
• What kind of logging should you do in production? (Oren Eini)
• How to create, edit and playback CodedUI Tests in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Charles Sterling)
• Constructor Injection vs Setter Injection (Davy Brion)
• Using Kuler to create color themes (Garr Reynolds)
• 5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization (Mark Suster)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part VI: It’s Okay To Disagree (Patrick Kua)
• Should I use MEF with an IoC container? – Part 1 (Glenn Block)
• Random Thoughts On Truly Remarkable Story Telling – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Business Data Connectivity Model – Finder Method (Nick Swan)
• State Pattern, Enumeration Class and Fluent NHibernate (Oh my!) (Richard Cirerol)
• Search and Messaging (Udi Dahan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 128: The Upgrade Conundrum (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show #337: DJ Hero, MUA2, Lego Rock Band and MW2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 90 – PowerScripting Podcast – SCOM with Jeremy Pavleck and Scott Moss with guest host Jonathan Medd (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Recommended books – part II (Roy Osherove)

 

Community / Events

• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 1 (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Evan Light’s Road Trip (Corey Haines)

 

Database

• Installing sql server express 2008 is easier than it used to be and Installing SQL server Express 2008 Management Studio (Christiaan Baes)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Windows 7’s DirectX 11 to Windows Vista (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/2 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave (Pete Cashmore)
• 15+ great Google Chrome extensions (Lee Matthews)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #467 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #77 (Grant Palin)
• Links (11/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 117 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Book of the Day