Dew Drop – March 26, 2010

 

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Top Links

• The jQuery Templating Plugin and Why You Should Be Excited! (Chris Love)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 1 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Beta Version of SCSF for VS2010 available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal (Eric Lippert)
• Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation (Karl Seguin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding a set of Nodes in an XML String and XML Literals: Handling Empty Elements (Deborah Kurata)
• Automatically generating states with VS2010 UML tools and T4 (Manuel Naujoks)
• Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page – Extension #3 (Sara Ford)
• FluentPath now on CodePlex (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tips and Tricks: Apply (or Don’t Apply) Cut or Copy commands to blank lines (Brittany Behrens)
• Hide or Show the Solution File in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Interview question (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• “Demystifying The Cloud – An Introduction to Cloud Computing” free ebook which includes the three popular services, Amazon, Google and Azure (Greg Duncan)
• Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting (Deepak Verma)
• Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations (Matthew Casperson)
• Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 (Lawrence Moroney)
• Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over (Joe Stagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 9: Developing and Agile Friday: "Test-Driven Development" Now Online (James Shore)
• Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count and Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons (Derick Bailey)
• In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ (Ian Cooper)
• Filing a Great Bug (Matt Gradwohl)
• Ninja Level Productivity Tip: Evading an Unwanted Meeting in 3 Easy Steps (Russell Ball)
• Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Two Week Tetris Applying Otazo’s Truths to Managing Development (Tucker Croft)
• Finding the assumptions in stories (Mark Needham)
• Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services and Validation (Nikhil Kothari)
• Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance (Andy Beaulieu)
• Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 (David Hill)
• The platform giveth power, don’t taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them] (David Anson)
• Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing (TypeMock)
• Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn (Charles Torre)
• XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology (Eric Hagan)
• The Thirsty Developer 89: McNuggets Go Tribal (Dave Bost)
• This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote (Laura Foy)
• Package and Re-use a SharePoint List (Laura Harring)

 

Community / Events

• Goodbye Intel, Joining Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist (Doug Holland)
• Project Natal ‘experience’ to premiere at E3 on June 13th (Paul Miller)
• Daily Dose – De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down (Mitch Pronschinske)
• There’s Still Time to Participate in This Year’s Imagine Cup (Anthony Salcito)
• Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” (John Wiese)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again) (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Exam 70-541 – TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Labs "Canvas for OneNote" Updated for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Review: The Nomadic Developer (Me)
• New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring (Todd Schwartz)
• Process Explorer (yes, that Process Explorer) v12 Released and Development/Test Environments, Windows Activation and You (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Series theme coming soon to Windows 7 thanks to Rainmeter (Imran Hussain)
• What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)
• Microsoft Semantic Search (Trevor Dwyer)
• Windows 8: The SKUs are Here to Stay (Stephen Chapman)
• Sharing 2.0 (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live™ ID Support, Download Page Ads, and Other Changes (Matt Hawley)
• David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! – Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 25-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #568 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 — #820 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 47 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

The Geek Shelf

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