Dew Drop – December 3, 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)
• Excel 2010 SDK: Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit (MS Downloads)
• Solution for reading your VS Solutions – “LINQ to Visual Studio Solution” and TPL (That is, Task Parallel Library) Article of the Day: “Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .Net Framework 4” (Greg Duncan)
• Adding a Console to Your IronRuby Application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Zune HD Level Program Written in XNA (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• MSMQ Studio 0.9.0 is released!! (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads (Peter Kellner)
• Really useful Software – ABCpdf .Net 7.0 (Steve Naughton)
• Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Web Development

• Working With Client ID In ASP.NET 4 (Deepak Kapoor)
• T4CSS: A T4 Template for .Less CSS With Compression (Phil Haack)
• Your Abomination Is My Clever Hack (K. Scott Allen)
• Announcing Planet ASP.NET MVC (Scott Koon)
• AJAX Emacs. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. (Sebastian Anthony)
• JScript location bar silliness (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• How to Run Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Preparing for Agile – Modular Writing (Julie Stickler)
• In praise of spiffy GUIs (Brian Marick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 11 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• Adopting Agile Isn’t the Point (Mike Cottmeyer) – Link of the Day
• Castle Dynamic Proxy FAQ: why there’s no “class proxy with target” (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Defining the Anatomy of a Architecture Review Board (Mike Walker)
• The Template Method is a lie (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.6 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control? (Nitya)
• MEF Refresh of Preview 8 for Silverlight and MEF and Prism, to be or not to be. (Glenn Block)
• The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence (Pete Brown)
• Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure Part II-Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight use, power and deployment keeps growing; so does WPF (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Codeplex Foundation (Carl Franklin)
• The Pluralcast – The PDC Show (David Starr)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Hire’s remorse” (Devon Musgrave)
• Nick Baker: Xbox Architecture (Charles Torre)
• First Look: Streetside in Bing Maps (Laura Foy)
• 10 Must-See PDC 09 Sessions (Pete Brown)
• PDC Review and Hello Devlicious!!! (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Community / Events

• 6 Simple Questions for Lisa Crispin (Jurgen Appelo)
• Careers: Now Open for Business(es) (Jeff Atwood)
• NINE Questions with Robin Edwards (Chris G. Williams)
• Q&A from webcast on public speaking (Scott Berkun)
• Join in December Webcast on Securing REST Services in Azure (Bruce Kyle)

 

Database

• SQL Server Miscellaneous String Functions (Richard Carr)
• How Do You Use SQL Server (Jeremiah Peschka)
• 2005 corruption bug with XML index rebuild fixed in latest CU (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Use the tokens in Visual Studio 2010! (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resources (Mike Walker)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)
• Beta Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta are now available for download (Jie Li)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bing Maps Rolls Out Enhanced Aerial and Street-Level Views (Microsoft)
• Microsoft’s Updated List of FREE Windows Holiday Software (Blake Handler)
• Bing: Connecting People, Places and Things (Satya Nadella)
• Why you shouldn’t open .csv files in Excel (Jamie Thomson)
• Outlets of the Future aka in-wall USB Charger (Hextor)
• Free Google Analytics Dashboard Built With Google’s APIs (Matthew Casperson)
• Having trouble deleting files? Try this (Ricky Tan) – Windows 7 tip.

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #490 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 02, 2009 — #746 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for December 2, 2009 (Dave Burke)

 

Book of the Day