Dew Drop – November 19, 2009

Another massive post filled with PDC 2009 goodness.

 

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Projects: Packaging Your Build (Grant Palin)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) (Somasegar)
• Data Dude moving into lower priced VS Editions in VS 2010 – excellent! (Kimberly Tripp)
• Diagnosing Toolbox Filtering Errors (Josh)
• Give us more control of Intellisense (Peter Blum)
• MPI Cluster debugger plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (Joe Hummel)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Feature Request For Visual Studio 2010: Local Revision History (Tuna Toksoz)
• New Windows API Code Pack Version (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part V (Matthew Podwysocki)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)

 

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Writing custom output cache providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Early Look At IE9 for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Azure to Feature App Marketplace (Mitch Pronschinske)
• HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Translating your content title using Google Translate API to use in a URL (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future? (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Two controllers, type conformance and the Liskov Substitution Principle (Mark Needham)
• Call for help with MSpec and MSpec v0.3 (Aaron Jensen)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design and Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections (Howard Dierking)
• The Demise of the Test Lab – An Ode to when Testers worked in test labs (Ken Johnston)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Trusted Applications and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Camera and Microphone Support and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML Hosting in the WebBrowser Control and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: RichTextArea and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Clipboard Access and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09 and RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• I Think Silverlight just ate WPF from the inside (Bill Wagner)
• Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs (Adam Kinney) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application! (Al Pascual)
• WPF: Still Alive and Kicking (Frank La Vigne)
• New WPF Features: SynchronizedInputPattern (Lester Lobo)
• Is WCF RIA Services ready for the Enterprise? and Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fishbowl – THE Windows FaceBook client? (Greg Duncan)
• Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta Announced! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services… and Beer! and Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles (Andy Beaulieu)
• Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 Beta is out – and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!] (David Anson)
• Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo (John Papa)
• WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta (Tomasz Janczuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
• IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine and IE 9: Standards and Interoperability and IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D and GalaxyZoo: Citizen Science for Classifying Galaxies (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #74 (Jeff Atwood)
• Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Test Episode 4 – Animals that Talk Back (Dror Helper & Gil Zilberfeld)
• Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta (James Senior)
• Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo (Taimur Asad)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Radio 18 Nov – PDC09, samtal runt tunnan (Dag König)
• PDC 2009 – Day 2, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?! (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Kurt DellBene and PDC 2009 Day 2: Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Future of Garbage Collection and PDC 2009 Day 2: The State of Parallel Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• My Introduction to Castle Winsor for IoC Session Scheduled for NotAtPDC (Steve Bohlen)
• Shut up and build something (Sara J. Chipps)
• Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft PDC09 day 2 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)
• PDC Day One, working the halls (Kip Kniskern)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference (Chad Myers)
• December Headspring workshop: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server collation conflicts (George Mastros)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download and Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• FYI – Interesting Little Bug in VS 2010 Beta 2 when working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office Filter Packs for Windows 7 & Office 2010 Beta and Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/19 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pivot: The latest technology from Live Labs (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Enters Beta (Will Kelly)
• Office Mobile 7 UI Prototype Image on Microsoft.com (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Mobile 2010 – BETA (Steven Bink)
• Is IIS 7 Console Based on PowerShell? (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers Employer Beta Underway (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009, Part 2 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for Nov 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #480 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets from 18-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 392 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)

 

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