Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 5-6, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a worker AppDomain to register a COM assembly (Joe White)
• N-Tier Methods in Entity Framework 4 – Use with Care (Julie Lerman)
• Productivity Improvements in Mono 2.4: Components and Architecture (Tapas Pal)
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why? (Bill Wagner)
• More on Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2 beta in the wild! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! (Peter Kellner)

 

Web Development

• Using Windows Azure BLOB storage with PHP (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK) (Blake Handler)
• Hiding Foreign Key or Children Columns Globally in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• More on medium trust: what permission are you missing? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Validating CheckBoxLists when using ClientIDMode=Predictable (Pete Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released (Nick Berardi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Doc Reviews – The Documentation Sprint (Julie Stickler)
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway (Jeff Atwood)
• You don’t need a UML tool (Simon Brown)
• the Importance of Observers (Brett Schuchert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)
• Bing Outage exposes Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards (Ken Johnston)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• If Agile Isn’t the Point, What Is? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Saying "NO". (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Hiring Kick-Ass Programmers Who Interview Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem (Deborah Kurata)
• Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing. (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug (Adam Kinney)
• Cinch : Major change alert (Sacha Barber)
• Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page (Silverlight Team)
• MVVM Light V3/alpha3 for Blend 3 and Blend Preview 4 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extensibility Series – Loading Metadata for Microsoft Controls (Karl Shifflett)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk (Scott Hanselman)
• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Simplicity and Performance with Scott Hunter (Craig Shoemaker)
• Connected Show Podcast: PDC 2009 Pizza Party (Brian Johnson)
• Coding4Fun at PDC 2009 – Video Montage (Brian Peek)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 41: Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8 with Jon Box (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Bing, parallel unit tests, more (Dan Fernandez)
• Introducing the Pluralcast (David Starr)
• Progression of the Iconic Background (Larry Larsen)
• Video on Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Mike Cottmeyer… DZone Interview at Agile 2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Scott Guthrie (Nic Fillingham)
• Life at Microsoft: Episode 3 (Tina Wood)

Database

• SQL Server DateTime Manipulation Functions (Richard Carr)

 

SharePoint

• BCS Model in Visual Studio 2010 – SpecificFinder and IdEnumerator (Nick Swan)
• Permissions Reporting in SP2010 (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Free Trial now with Power Pack 3 (Nicole Berett)
• Ignoring Namespaces in XPath (Joel Bennett)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• New-Object PSObject –Property [HashTable] (Jeffrey Snover)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Every Client Is Not Meant To Be Your Client. (Rajiv Popat)
• Freelance work what it should be vs what it is. (Paul Zubkov)
• User Account Control and WMI (Kapil Mathur)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2009 — #748 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.12.04 (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Book of the Day