Dew Drop – November 24, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

 

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePickerCalendarVSMDatagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

 

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

 

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

 

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