Dew Drop – November 23, 2009

 

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing: Reflector Addin Toolkit on Codeplex (Jason Haley)
• .NET Projects: Versioning Builds (Grant Palin)
• Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Bye Bye .NET Services! Hello AppFabric (Bill Zack)
• Visual Studio Color Scheme (Mark Nijhof)
• Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration (Tim Heuer)
• Command Line Parsing with Mono.Options (Rob Reynolds)
• Inter-process Mediator and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) (Rudi Grobler)
• Combining NHibernate, NH Spatial and SQL Server 2008 Fulltext Queries (Jak Charlton)

 

Web Development

• Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions (Adam DuVander)
• Building High Performance Web Applications (James Senior)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple site sanity testing with Cassini and friends (Aaron Jensen)
• TestApi v0.4 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pair Programming/Helping/Working Collaboratively and Requirements: The story points focus (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Every Time They Are Lost And Confused It Probably Is Your Fault. (Rajiv Popat)
• Applying Strategy Pattern Instead of Using Switch Statements (Gil Fink)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference (Brad Abrams)
• Caliburn Hello World (Christopher Bennage)
• From code-behind to MVVM in 90 Minutes – Jason Dolinger on MVVM (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Building a Grid and StackPanel in Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Fishbowl: A WPF Front-end for Facebook, with Full Source (Pete Brown)
• RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010? and Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo (Fredrik Normén)
• 10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching (John Papa)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009 (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too (Bob Familiar)
• A Feed You Should Read #12 – DimeCasts.Net (Greg Duncan)
• Recent Podcasts (Phil Haack)
• Major Nelson – A bonus show….with lollip0p and friends (Larry Hyrb)
• Herding Code 64: Phil Haack on MVC 2 (Jon Galloway)
• Life at Microsoft – The Truth Revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Episode 93 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Atwood from ServerFault and StackOverflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo (Girish Raja)

 

Community / Events

• Favorite Photos from PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09 (Dave Burke)
• Azure IT PAC Tour and Bring a Friend, Get a Book (Jim O’Neil)
• Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh – Thursday 26th November (Martin Bell)
• LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd (Scott Guthrie)

 

Database

• SQL Server Case Conversion Functions and SQL Server Trimming Functions (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search Term Extraction (Jamie Thomson)
• Confused.bol? (Martin Bell)
• Testing backup compression in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas and SQL SERVER – A Common Design Problem – Should the Primary Key Always be a Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Apple Releases Magic Mouse "multi-touch" Drivers for Windows and How to View RAW Camera Images in Windows 7? Download the Proper Driver and Microsoft Updates "Office Outlook Connector" for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/23 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Keeping a Product Launch Secret (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Store visit (Steve Clayton)
• You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Best Screencasting Tools [Hive Five] (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Getting your OSS binaries with Horn (Hadi Hariri)
• Make working with open source a breeze with Hornget (Mike Hadlow)
• Manually Upgrading your Hudson CI Server (Derik Whittaker)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #482 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.17 ~ 11.22 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #80 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 — #738 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 2 — #739 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 3 — #740 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #98 (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up (Tim Heuer)
• Weekly Link Post 120 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009 (Rick Minerich)

 

Book of the Day