Dew Drop – December 24, 2009

 

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Top Links

• Tips for Releasing Sample Code (Steve Andrews) – Some nice tips from Steve.
• My Life is a Project? (Mike Cottmeyer) – Mike responds to Scott Berkund’s Everything Is a Project article.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? (Oren Eini)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Scaffolding attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

 

Web Development

• Accelerator Creation Guide (Jon Seitel)
• Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site (Joe Kaiser)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Typed Factory Facility reborn (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Debug It: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage)
• Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation (Roy Osherove)
• Lessons from Uncle Bob (Leon Gersing)
• Testing Agatha’s Caching Functionality With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
• Added support for Unity, Autofac to Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight HVP Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox (Mike Taulty)
• Make a Silverlight TextBox update its binding on every character with a Behavior (András  Velvárt)
• Friction Scrolling Now An WPF Attached Behaviour Too and Cinch : More good news (again sorry) (Sacha Barber)
• Case Study – TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure (Silverlight Team)
• Day #23: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 1 of 3) and Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Transforming grouped elements in Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #78 (Jeff Atwood)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 2 (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Loic Le Meur and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: This Week on Channel 9 – PDC09 Daily Show Edition Day 1 (Nic Fillingham)

 

Community / Events

• Traveling to Technical Events (Chris Patterson)

 

Database

• 12-23-2009 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Resolving the issue of multiple JOIN statements and multiple aggregations (Kevin Goff)
• Backing up Azure Table Storage (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShellPack Reaches 10,000 Downloads in 3 Months (Jeffrey Snover)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #505 (Chris Alcock)
• 20 Must Read LINQ, WCF, Expression Web, VSTS and Windows Forms articles on DotNetCurry – 2009 (Minal Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2009 — #761 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linfest (Scott Berkun)

 

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)