Dew Drop – April 15, 2010

 

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Top Links

• FubuMVC Conventions in ASP.NET MVC with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Extending NServiceBus: Per Unit of Work IoC Container and Extending NServiceBus: Thread-Specific Message Modules and NServiceBus Message Modules (IMessageModule) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension v2 (Karl Shifflett)
• Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris (Christian Schormann)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• "VisioAutomation" Office 2010 .NET Library Tools for Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Entity Framework Profiler is released! (Oren Eini)
• How to Migrate Your .NET 3.5 App to .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Coding4Fun: XNA Effects – ASCII Art in 3D (Louis Ingenthron)
• Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.1 – Now with Visual Basic samples and number of new series entries too (Greg Duncan)
• Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Generate from Usage (Zain Naboulsi)
• WCF Tutorial – Serializing and Transmitting Base Types (Charlie Key)
• PowerManager class in Windows API Code Pack (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows 7 Programming Guide – Libraries Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cancelling Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• D3: 4 Years of DPMud and Still Going Strong (Dan Simmons)
• AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft (Jeffrey Richter)
• Data Flow Analysis Rules in Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)
• Yet Another Way to Determine the Sync Object for Which Your Thread Is Waiting (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• JSMag – Call For Authors (Michael Kimsal)
• Downloading Multiple Files as a Zip File Using GridView and SharpZipLib (Mohammad Azam)
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code (Tony Ross)
• Printf(“HERE”) in the Cloud (Steve Marx)
• Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start Page (Jimmy Lewis)
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Run Java with Jetty in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• How to install Subtext (and Umbraco) using WebPI (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 2 (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do You Need Iteration Zero? A Case Study. (James Shore)
• Help! I’m Terrible At Migrating/Restructuring Code In A Test-First Manner (Derick Bailey)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 6: Text String Generation API and Part 7: Memory Leak Detection API (Ivo Manolov)
• Agile is Performance, Feedback, Revision (Jak Charlton)
• Do you have a contract between the Product Owner and the Team? and Do you know when to send a done email in Scrum? and Guidance: A Branching strategy for Scrum Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Rally Acquires AgileZen Kanban Tooling (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Sapient Testing: The "Professionalism" meme. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Find Your Strengths Among Your Team (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : TimeLine Control (Sacha Barber)
• Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation (Pete Brown)
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Hypershow Silverlight Enhanced Movie player (James Clarke)
• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 2) (jarsenau13)
• C# TDD Videos – You asked for them (Brett Schuchert)
• Bruce Johnson on Silverlight 4: New Desktop Features, Augmented Reality (Eric Hagan)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Flash (Jeff Brand)
• TechDays 2010: Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and TechDays 2010: Visual Studio 2010 IDE Tips (kreekman)
• Watch: MVPs help lauch Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• Visual Basic Masterclass by Lucian Wischik and Why REST? by Aaron Skonnard (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Pete at MIX10: Mime Cloud for Umbraco and More (Pete Brown)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools (Robert Hess)
• Jon Takes Five with Brad Wilson on MVC 2 Templating & Validation (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• 18,230 miles, 8 events, 1 vacation and 25 pictures later… (Adam Kinney)

 

Database

• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 15 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Date: May 21 2010 (Brent Ozar)

 

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint Output Cache (Gunnar Peipman)
• Configuring Read-Only Content Databases (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• WHS Add-in Poca Podcast Catcher (Ben Palmer)
• Quick Status of Your Windows Azure Apps with PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• Daily Dose – Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Myths of Innovation – Only $9.99. Use code DDMNV (O’Reilly Media)
• JobsBlog Rewind: Five ways to fail my phone interview (Matt Aberham)
• New Apps and Dev Tools for Windows Media Center (Sarah Perez)

 

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #73 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 04.14.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #580 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on The Holistic Web, Incentive Planning, Marketing as Entertwainment (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• More VS 2010 Launch Links (Scott Wiltamuth)

 

The Geek Shelf

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