Dew Drop – November 20, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt? (Derik Whittaker)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Introducing: The Agatha Project (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)
• Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation (Phil Haack)
• Visualize your Twitter Timeline with jQuery and SIMILE (Elijah Manor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A better Model Binder addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Always write a spec, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! (Jeff Atwood)
• MSpec latest build download now available (Aaron Jensen)
• The Danger of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued (David Cooksey)
• Programmer Tip: A ‘Large’ Project Means Nothing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages (Ryan Svihla)
• NDepend — a belated "kicking the tyres" review (Steve Gilham)
• Design Patterns Are Not Outdated (Steve Rowe)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit and BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release and Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services and DTO with association (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance (Corey Schuman) – Link of the Day
• Sharing Blend Workspace Settings (Andy Beaulieu)
• Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference Book Review (Joel Cochran)
• Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice (Yochay Kiriaty)
• RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: Generics Support (Lester Lobo)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Connected Show Podcast: Who’s Exception is it? (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 and Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px – Working Together and Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)
• Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC (John Papa)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo (Nic Fillingham)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – John Bristowe on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (Dave Bost)

 

Community / Events

• Stackoverflow Overflow (Bob Nadler)
• PDC 2009 Day 3: Lighting Up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS and PDC 2009 Day 3: Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2 and PDC 2009 Day 3: DirectCompute: Capturing the Teraflop and PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie (Sasha Goldshtein)
• XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09! (Rob Relyea)

 

Database

• Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft (Brad M. McGehee)
• Where is the next Access? (Ian Cooper)
• Collation conflicts with temp tables and table variables. (George Mastros)
• Geek City: Intent to Update (Kalen Delaney)
• RoundhousE: Version Your Database (Rob Reynolds)
• To BUILTINAdmin or not to BUILTINAdmin (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
• Code Name Houston: New SQL Azure Developer Tool (Stephen Forte)
• GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name! (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Caesar Sengupta)
• Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? (Ian Fette)
• No Telecommuting Allowed! (Jim Lynch)
• Windows PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework (Lee Holmes)
• Open XML: One Year In (Shawn Villaron)
• My Google Wave Wish List: The Document Collaboration Edition (Will Kelly)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #481 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 — #735 and Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 – 2 — #736 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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