Month: May 2010

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Top Links

• Code Rush Vs. ReSharper (Jesse Liberty)
• Prism V2.2 Posted to Codeplex (Bob Brumfield)
• p&p – A Guide to Parallel Programming – Release: Drop 4 – Guide Preface, Chapters 1-5, and code (CodePlex)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building a Connection String at Runtime (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Contracts: validating arrays and collections (Gunnar Peipman)
• JSON vs. XML from a .NET developer’s perspective (Dennis Delimarsky)
• It’s there some new “testing” stuff in VS2010? Yep! Tons! And here’s a free webcast to show you all about it… (Greg Duncan)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Wrapping the Dojo API (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Using Quick Info (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• Creating a Simple Imageless Captcha Control Using the ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the checkout process (Oren Eini)
• Designing websites for accessibility in Expression Web – Part I (Minal Agarwal)
• Writing the tests for FluentPath (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Viewing divs with “overflow:auto;” on the iPhone (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2 (Joey Beninghove)
• Web Service Software Factory Contrib – Release: Import WSDL 2010 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• patterns & practices Security Guidance Roundup (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns In C# – Observer Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• How To Be A Real Elite Programmer And Make Sure Everybody Knows It (Alan Skorkin)
• Mocks that specify essential implementation (Brian Marick)
• Model Based Apps and Frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Zero Configuration Development Environments (John Sonmez)
• Autofac 2.2 Released and Simplifying ‘Configuration by Exception’ (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating your First Silverlight Client Application: Twitter and COM, of course (Pete Brown)
• DroppedBoxx: Dropbox for Windows Phone (Sarah Perez)
• Silverlight Tip of the day #25 – Detecting Validation Errors on Submit (Mike Snow)
• WP7 Part 4: Morphing and Mapping (Chris Koenig)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• jQuery Podcast 24 – yayQuery (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 13 – Running Python – The Censored Edition (Ryan Dunn)
• TWC9: Email on Azure, Zork in C#, Ford Sync AppLink, and more (Dan Fernandez)
• WebDev Radio Episode 77: Matt and Sean from MuraCMS (Michael Kimsal)
• Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Martin Esmann)

 

Community / Events

• What’s it like to work for Bing? Part II (Eugenia Sawa)

 

Database

• Dynamic Unpivot : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• When did SQL Server start and how long is the downtime window? (Jeffrey Yao)
• Importing binary files with SSIS (Josef Richberg)
• List all the Weekends of the Current Year using SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Report Manager / Report Server Loading Slow Initially (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – FAULT Contract in WCF with Learning Video (Pinal Dave)
• Couch Potato Bookmarklet – Lazy Features for CouchDB’s Futon (Elijah Manor)
• Clearing a SQL Server Database (Joel Cochran)
• The Truth about SQLPS and PowerShell V2 (Chad Miller)

 

SharePoint

• What’s New for Email Management in SharePoint 2010 and The SharePoint 2010 Challenge – Planning Your Service Apps (Joel Oleson)
• Server Name Mapping and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) (Ying Tao)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Releases "Joulemeter" Power Consumption Estimator for Windows (Blake Handler)
• Google Wave had its first birthday yesterday, but got no presents (Matthew Rogers)
• Expression Encoder Batch Processor – Release: Runtime Application v0.2 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager — Now Available (Mike Fourie)
• Kodu PC build 1.0.48 is live! (Stephen Coy)
• HUGE: Microsoft Bing to Replace Google Search in iPhone OS 4 (Taimur Asad)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed 52 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 28-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 05/28/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for May 27, 2010 — #871 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)