Dew Drop – October 23, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom Toolbox Items (Cameron Skinner)
• Extension methods ain’t Trojan horses – A tale on a covariant city built in and protected by C# 4.0 (Bart de Smet)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Complex numbers (Gunnar Peipman)
• New features in Entity Framework impacting providers (Kati Iceva & Noam Ben-Ami)
• IntelliTrace is not available. Why? (Habib Heydarian)
• Migrating to Postgresql with my friend NHibernate (Karl Seguin)
• The BindingSource-Sort property (Eugen Ciută)
• Positioning the Parallel Stacks window (Daniel Moth)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Performance (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Java/.NET Interoperability: Web Services Aren’t Always the Answer (Wayne Citrin)
• Windows 7 features in .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

 

Web Development

• IIS 7.5 Launched with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 (Bill Staples)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control (Dave M. Bush)
• Using jQuery’s UI Slider For Page Sizes (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Map control confusion (Peter Van Ooijen)
• SQL Azure on Production Servers (Stephen Forte)
• No JavaScript IntelliSense in VS 2010 Beta 2? Reset your Settings (Rick Strahl)
• What Makes a Great Developer Website? Help Me Improve http://dev.windowsazure.com! (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The code doesn’t tell the whole story (Simon Brown)
• Database independence with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• Expectations Are Everything (Jesse Liberty)
• DDD: Entity Injection (Jonathan Oliver)
• Castle Windsor forwarded types and proxies (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Coding: The primitive obsession (Mark Needham)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jeff Wilcox) – Link of the Day
• Much Improved .NET 4.0 WPF Text Rendering (Karl Shifflett)
• New WPF Features: Easing Functions (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Toolkit Drag Drop (Part 2): Customizing Drag and Drop Behavior (Jafar Husain)
• Using Eclipse to build Silverlight applications in Java, PHP and Ruby (Robert Hess)
• Using Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight development (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TDD Kata Calculator Demonstration (Bobby Johnson)
• Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Redux (Charles Torre)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 4 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• What does it look like inside a Microsoft Store? (Steve Clayton)

 

Community / Events

• PowerPack Challenge 2009 Begins (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Northeast Roadshow: Taskbar Deep-dive (Jim O’Neil)
• Pex at PDC’09: Come to our Session (VTL01) and Booth (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Database

• My Favorite SQL Server 2k8 Feature (Kim)

 

SharePoint

• Top 10 SharePoint Server 2010 features (Vishwas Lele)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7 Launch Shows Microsoft’s Warm-and-Fuzzy Side (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Bring a little Bing to your Windows 7 desktop (Stephanie Horstmanshof)
• We have no plans for Blu-Ray on Xbox 360 (Larry Hyrb)
• An Overview of Project 2010 (Office Team)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• Microsoft misses a perfect opportunity for Windows 7 and multitouch (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7 (Kevin Purdy)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #461 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2009 — #714 and Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2009 – 2 — #715 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 22nd October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #568 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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