Day: January 16, 2011

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Top Links

• Sketchflow To Final (Michael Washington)
• ConcurrentDictionary used with Lazy (Reed Copsey)
• CLR 4 Does Not Use LoadLibrary to Load Assemblies (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Monads in C#-5. Maybe 😉 (Mike Hadlow)
• Internals of Extension Methods (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Code Providers – Seal Class (Alex Skorkin)
• The Basics of EF Validation: IDataErrorInfo (Chris Sells)
• Asynchronous Programming Now and in the Future (Jason Rainwater)
• EasyHttp (Hadi Hariri)

 

Web Development

• EF Concurrency Mode Fixed + MVC (Chris Sells)
• Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web 4 SuperPreview – A closer look (Minal Agarwal)
• How to update controls which are outside of updatepanel during partial page rendering? (Abhijit Jana)
• Setting the Initial Sort Order – Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET (Denis Gladkikh)
• The passionate programmer (Code Inside Team)
• Testing: Behaviour-Driven Development with F# (Flying Frog)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automapper and Silverlight 4? Yes Please! (Dave Swersky)
• Building a Silverlight LOB Application and Building a Multi-Page Silverlight LOB Application and Theming a Silverlight Application using Existing Themes and Theming a Silverlight Application using Custom Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 136 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Christopher on StudioShell and a Goodbye to Andy (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget Podcast 229 – 01.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• CodeMash v2.0.1.1 (Chris Smith)
• Alt.Next (Ian Cooper)
• CodeMash Day 2 (Bill Wagner)
• A Train of Thought – Wrapping up CodeMash 2011 (Jeremy Miller)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)

 

Database

• Using SQL Server Profiler with EF (Chris Sells)
• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper Download – Using Star Join and Few-Outer-Row Optimizations to Improve Data Warehousing Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Adventures in query tuning: non-seekable WHERE clause expressions (Paul S. Randal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11 (Jeff Atwood)
• My bookkeeping post for 2011 (Jeremy Miller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #137 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed