Dew Drop – January 15, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 Launch is 12th April… (Mike Ormond)
• jQuery 1.4 Released! (John Resig)
• Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th (John Papa) – Today!
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (Scott Guthrie)
• The Internet Isn’t Being Held Hostage (Justin Etheredge)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making NCloak fool Reflector (an implementation) (Paul Mason)
• DevExpress and a Stumper (Andy Warren)
• .Net Remoting Made Easy (Dave Verschleiser)
• Why Can’t I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 (Tess Ferrandez)
• Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude (Simon Sabin)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 3 – Sieve Me One (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Missing LINQ – Beware of Generated Code and Spread The Word – Install .NETFx 4 Beta 2 via Windows Update (Mike Ceranski)
• 2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F#: Refactoring to sequence/for expressions (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4 (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion? (John Sheehan)
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine (K. Scott Allen)
• What Would a Stack Overflow API Look Like? (Jeff Atwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control (Grant Palin)
• The future of UI will be boring (Scott Berkun)
• More on Context… Establishing Personas (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Higher Order Software Development (Vishwas Lele)
• The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools (Roy Osherove)
• Knowing and not Knowing (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel)
• Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight and Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List (Adam Kinney)
• WPF WebBrowser and JavaScript interaction (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight: SketchFlow (Deborah Kurata)
• Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns and Introducing MicroModels (Paul Stovell)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Windows Mobile Widgets (Eric Nelson)
• The Agile PMP on InfoQ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• Mix10 And Molecular Biology DNA Visualizer (Justin Angel)
• First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule (Chris Love)
• PDC09 Trip Report Kit available for download. Taking out the drudgery so you can focus on the fun. (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership (David Starr)
• Creators Club Communiqué 37 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events (Katrien De Graeve)
• Looking for a change? Come work with us! (Larry Hyrb)
• Platz on Pausch, Pikachu and pursuing your passions (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• 2010 TechEd PreCon: Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• The Sparkling Client Goes to Mix 2010! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• NYC Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure! (Stephen Forte)

 

Database

• The Database Design Process (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• Quickest way to get the row count of a table and User defined function performance is awful, Micorosft please sort this out (Simon Sabin)
• Find Out If You Are Using Deprecated Features In SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Fluidity with "Quadrant’s" Unique User Interface (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to SharePoint (Tom Hearn)
• Free Developer Training for SharePoint (Bruce Kyle)
• How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Approve all items button in a SharePoint View (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating Comparison and Wildcard Filters for BCS in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)
• BCS Creator and Updater methods for Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

 

Miscellaneous

• You should know Linux (Karl Seguin)
• Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7 Step by Step — Only $9.99! Use discount code W7SS9 (O’Reilly Media)
• You are responsible for your education (Mark Nijhof)
• Developing Windows PowerShell Best Practices book (Ed Wilson)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #518 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 — #778 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 14, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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