Dew Drop – January 31, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Windows 7 Post-RTM Build 7700 Screen Shots Leak: First Build of Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
• Developing for the Apple iPad in .NET (Wally McClure)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Testing — Only $9.99! Use discount code BT999 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to customize test initialization and logging (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
• Welcome to the DMV Goldmine (Green Paper – PDF) (Ian Stirk)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reset Visual Studio Settings (Richard Carr)
• Linq to SQL Profiler Video (Oren Eini)
• Deleting Foreign-Key Relationships in EF4 (Dan Simmons)
• Open a file’s location from the File Tab — vstipEdit0014 (Zain Naboulsi)
• “Hello Glade#” from F# (Steve Gilham)
• Optimizing build times (Morten Lyhr)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Canvas demo – cloth simulation in JavaScript (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating configuration reader for web and cloud environments and ASP.NET 4.0: How to use application warm-up class (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Designing the Moment (Grant Palin)
• Explaining Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 4 Inside Infrastructure (Muhammad Mosa)
• “The purpose of kanban is to eliminate the kanban” (Derick Bailey)
• NDbUnit v1.6 (and Proteus Unit Test libraries) with Oracle Support Released! (Stephen Bohlen)
• Programmer Tip: No One Really Cares About Your Failures. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 new websites for Silverlight Community (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight 3 – Populate a ListBox and AutoScroll to an Item (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Rounder, Faster, Better – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop (Tim Heuer)
• XamlDesigner – View Only/View or XAML/SplitView/XAML with Preview/XAML Only (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 141: iPaul (Paul Thurrott)
• Advanced Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010 (Matthijs Hoekstra)

 

Community / Events

• TDD master class – Vienna Feb 15-19 (Roy Osherove)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 64-Bit vs 32-Bit Performance (Peter Bromberg)
• Geek City: More About Row Overflow Columns (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL SERVER – Location of Resource Database in SQL Server Editions (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• From Hyper-V back (?) to Virtual PC (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Show Your Papers! (Chinh Do)
• Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2 (Michael Kennedy)
• A face-melting DSL that allows programming ON the iPhone (and iPad) (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #90 (Grant Palin)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)