Dew Drop – February 9, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Entlib 5.0 and Unity 2.0 – Beta 1 release (Chris Tavares)
• Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) (Jason Zander)
• Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages (Steven Sinofsky)
• SmallestDotNet Update – Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio and VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ZoomSliderVSX -Visual Studio Extension (VSX) 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Enterprise Library: Exception Handling Application Block (Sukumar Raju)
• Source Control Options? Yeah, We’ve got those…Doc-To-Help 2010 now integrates with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (Nicky Bleiel)
• Help my DataContracts do not show up in my WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)
• Ebook for Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition, now available (Devon Musgrave)
• IL perversions: throwing and catching strings (Gunnar Peipman)
• Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack (Adi Unnithan)
• Distributing Work across Cores using .NET (Christopher Diggins)
• Answering A C# Question (Jesse Liberty)
• PLINQ in .NET 4.0 (John Oriente)
• The I-90 Tour of “Dallas” (Jim O’Neil)
• How to investigate and report Visual Studio issues (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional C#: Extracting a higher order function with generics (Mark Needham)
• Ruby in Steel 1.5 Leaves ‘Iron’ Age Behind (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tip: New .NET 4 String Function to Check for Empty Strings (Pete Brown)
• Migrating your Modeling artifacts to RC (Peter Provost)
• Exploring MongoDB with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available (Somasegar)
• Using the New IntelliSense: Pascal Case — vstipEdit0017 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Data Access Guidance Refresh (Michael Puleio)

 

Web Development

• Cleaning up your SubText database (Andrew Connell)
• Scaling Viral Facebook Applications with Windows Azure (Jeff Barnes)
• Ajax Control Toolkit (Now part of the ASP.NET Ajax Library) – Accordion Control CLOSED Startup State (Joe Stagner)
• Code Magazine article on ASP.NET MVC 2 source code download (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Combine, Minify, And Compress Your JavaScript (Justin Etheredge)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: jQuery Cookbook – Only $9.99! Use code JQCBS (O’Reilly Media)
• The 9th of Diduary: Did you know about the free Search Engine Optimization Toolkit? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• When Blobs attack – understanding cloud storage bursts and viewing logs (Tim Heuer)
• VSDoc for jQuery 1.4.1 Now Available (Jeff King)
• Consuming REST services using HttpClient (Marc Schweigert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Performance optimizations, managed code and leaky abstractions (Oren Eini)
• Rudimentary TDD with XCode and Objective-C (Brett Schuchert)
• Make it Easy for People to Help You (Buck Woody)
• Making the code read like the spec (Eric Lippert)
• Articulate your Incompetence (Patrick Kua)
• Willed vs Forced designs (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas (Christian Schormann)
• Planetary Body Shader Part 1 (Dave Brown)
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in multiple flavors (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• BBQ Shack Silverlight Application (Karl Shifflett)
• .NET Rocks! – Ron Jacobs on Azure AppFabric (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV – Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 020 – David Gristwood and AWS talk Azure (Eric Nelson)
• 5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media (Matt Silverman)
• Ping 47: Avatar, FourSquare, Bing & Twitter, Farmville (Laura Foy)
• This Week in Testing Episode 12 (Part 2): The Goals of Unit Testing (Dror Helper)
• Jason Zander: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released (Charles Torre)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an AtomPub Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 155: Johannes Link & Lasse Koskela on TDD (SE-Radio Team)
• The Thirsty Developer 84: MIXing It Up with Thomas Lewis (Dave Bost)

 

Community / Events

• Should developers go to conferences? What to expect at the Microsoft MVP Summit 2010 (Al Pascual)
• $40K Worth of SharePoint Stuff To Be Raffled on Feb 10, Wed – You In? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events this Week – February 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Events (K. Scott Allen)
• Do you want to help with the next SQLBits? (Simon Sabin)
• LinkedIn .NET User Group (LIDNUG) Presents Scott Guthrie Thursday 2/11 10am PT (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Brief Note about StreamInsight – What is StreamInsight (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Converting a physical machine to a VMware Workstation VM (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Windows PowerShell Quick Reference Guide Updated (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Started with iPhone Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Daily Dose – Google Seeks Chrome Patents (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Get Localized PowerShell Help Files (June Blender)
• How Do I Love Thee, Windows Home Server? (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Feb 8, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #535 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 08, 2010 — #794 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 02/08/2010 (Rick Minerich)

 

The Geek Shelf

The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition)