Dew Drop – December 9, 2009

 

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Top Links

• 10 AppFabric/.Net 4 Virtual Labs now available (Greg Duncan) – Greg points out a recent post from Nicholas Allen about new Virtual Labs.
• A VS 2010 Beta3 would be welcomed (Patrick Smacchia) – Count Patrick among the .NET community members with concerns about the stability and performance of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
• Silverlight 4 COM Support and 32/64 bit machines – the C64 Emulator (Pete Brown) – Pete works around a 32bit/64bit issue by going out-of-process with COM.
• Behind PaulStovell.com (Paul Stovell) – Get the inside scoop on Pauls home-grown blog engine / web site.
• Which Code Metrics Do You Consider Important? (Davy Brion) – Get some discussion going in the comments.
• Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin) – A great intro to MVVM with Silverlight. New to the pattern? Start here.
• The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science (Brendan Tompkins) – Fantastic initiative!
• Microsoft Gets Serious About Its Cloud Business (Krishnan Subramanian) – Krishnan’s take on Microsoft Azure/WinServer re-org.
• Chrome Extensions beta launched, with over 300 extensions! (Erik Kay & Aaron Boodman) – Is FireBug there yet?  :)  Make sure you use LastPass so you don’t have to risk Chrome displaying your saved passwords as plain text.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ query operators and null lists (Jimmy Bogard)
• SidePOP XMLConfigurator (Rob Reynolds)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 2 – Contextual Registration and Resolution (Marcus Bratton)
• Feedback Wanted: Links to C# Tech Info (Charlie Calvert)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository Part 5: IObjectSet and Include (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• Organizing ASP.NET MVC solutions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application (Scott Mitchell)
• Featured Open Source Project: the ColdBox ColdFusion Platform (Alex Coisman)
• Creating a Twitter Like TextBox Character Warning Using JQuery (Chris Love)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
• Easy HTML Templating with jQuery (Sara Chipps)
• SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application! (Scott Mitchell)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part II (James Senior)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Efficient vs. Effective (Christophe Louvion)
• CQRS – Domain state (Mark Nijhof)
• Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow (James Chittenden)
• Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas and Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital (Gojko Adzic)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Field Level Access with RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• WCF RIA Services Exception Handling (Fredrik Normén)
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• That’s a WrapPanel and I am outta here… [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Careful using Mouse.OverrideCursor (Corey Miller)
• Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews (Mike Taulty)
• MEF, Silverlight and the HVP (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E2E: Meijer, Rys and Vick – Programming Data and Building on Azure: Persistent Systems (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) (Charlie Calvert)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Zip (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Hanselminutes – Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius (Scott Hanselman)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #154: How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service (Derik Whittaker)
• CSLA .NET, MVVM AND DNR TV (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show 343: Interviews with members of the 343 Team about Halo and more (Larry Hyrb)
• William Stanek: Fun with Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7 (Devon Musgrave)

 

Community / Events

• Coding4Fun Show in Orlando (Brian Peek)
• We’re Hiring! (Eran Kampf)
• Events This Week – December 8th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 1: Summary and IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 2: What sets IronRuby apart? (Jimmy Schementi)
• Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video (Silverlight Team)
• 4th NYC Girl Geek Dinner & 1 Year Anniversary (Stephen Forte)
• Guest Post: The Product Group (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• What Does Clam Chowder & the Google Wave API Have in Common? Boston! (Pamela Fox)

 

Database

• Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
• Unambiguous date formats : T-SQL Tuesday #001 (Jamie Thomson)
• Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Business Intelligence – Aligning Business Metrics (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #001: My Datetime FAQ (Kalen Delaney)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Find the PowerShell cmdlet you’re looking for and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? (Andrew Connell)
• Common compilation error for SharePoint 2010 VS projects (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nice IE8 add-ons from Play.com (Mike Ormond)
• Stack Overflow Trilogy Lego Minifigs (Jeff Atwood)
• Digital Signatures in Office 2010 (Shelley Gu)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/9 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Bing and MSN Messenger apps coming to the iPhone (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Azure Joins Windows Server in a New Organization: Server & Cloud Division (Windows Azure Team)
• Why you need a public speaking book (Scott Berkun)
• EntityCube Ready to Define and Connect Entities (Larry Larsen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #494 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 — #752 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

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