Dew Drop – December 2, 2009

 

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

• Microsoft Updates Windows API Code Pack for Windows 7 for Developers (Blake Handler)
• Windows Azure – Using DataSet with cloud storage (Gunnar Peipman)
• Go to Definition Tip with the C# ‘var’ keyword (Jason Jarrett)
• An Overview of C# 4.0 (Kevin Jones)
• Running Visual Studio 2010 on Win 7 inside XP Mode (Jeffrey Palermo)
• One bug, two developers: Collaborative debugging is now a reality in Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Migrating to Fluent NHibernate (Jimmy Bogard)
• .NET 4.0 – Start Reading Between the Lines – Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework (Keith Elder)
• Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)

 

Web Development

• Removing Unnecessary HTTP Headers in IIS and ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery, Each() and Async Gets (Dave M. Bush)
• PHP Managed Extensibility Framework – PHPMEF (Maarten Balliauw)
• Extending jQuery and Writing Custom Logging for Your Application in JavaScript (Malcolm Sheridan)
• XslCompiledTransform and large template elements (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 RTM (Javier G. Lozano)
• Google Android ("Droid") and iPhone Web Development Compatability (Jim Wilson)
• Simple Tooltip for Huge Number of Elements (Karl Swedberg)
• Introducing Windows Azure Diagnostics (Windows Azure Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture is a platform for conversation (Simon Brown)
• The power of "no"… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Parallel Execution of Visual Studio 2010 Unit Tests (Doug Holland)
• How to be a great client (Seth Godin)
• Why SketchFlow Is not a Mockup Software (Simone Chiaretta)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Is Software Craftsmanship too gender specific? (Mark Nijhof)
• Microsoft Steps Up Architecture Modeling and Relating Architecture Review Boards to Other Architecture Governance Bodies (Mike Walker)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Animating Clipping Paths using Perspective (Alex Knight)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Two (Corrina Barber)
• Coding for Multi-Touch for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• My Take on Brad Abrams’ PDC RIA Services Talk. (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Create a Silverlight Europe weather map (Andrej Tozon)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Weyer and Baier on WIF (Carl Franklin)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 012 – Pex automated testing at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 013 – Code Contracts at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 014 – Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe and MSDN Flash Podcast 015 – SQL Azure at TechEd Europe (Eric Nelson)
• Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 GeekFest Party (Laura Foy)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2009.12.01 nBuilder, Ugly Outfitters and VM Workshop (Craig Shoemaker)
• Visual Studio Extensibility Videos (Quan To)
• The Access Show: Managing Access Databases with SharePoint (Tina Wood)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 189: 2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell and PDC09: ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• Join in December Webcast on Securing REST Services in Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight Team Twitter List (John Papa)
• Thank You Mass Transit Team (Kevin Miller)
• Upcoming VS Platform MSDN Webcasts (VS Blog)

 

Database

• Microsoft StreamInsight November Preview Refreshed (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL Azure Feature Voting (Gunther Lenz)
• After the Upgrade, it runs differently… (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Validate an XML document in TSQL using XSD by Jacob Sebastian (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• The User Code Execution Request was refused because the User Code Execution Host Service was too busy to handle the request. (Nick Swan)
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using Notepad++ For PowerShell Editing (Joel Bennett)
• William Stanek: We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast again (Part Deux, Step 2) (Devon Musgrave)
• Hard drive is officially the bottleneck on the development laptop (Jeffrey Palermo)
• She Sells PowerShell on The Sea Shore (James Howard)
• Over 600 Microsoft Press Titles Now Available on oreilly.com – New Ebook Initiatives Launched Today (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft MultiPoint Server 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• December’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows Mobile 7: Silverlight Applications, IE Mobile 7, and More! (Stephen Chapman)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #489 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Other blogs on management and leadership (Roy Osherove)
• New and Notable 394 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day