Dew Drop – April 14, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory (Ben Scheirman)
• NHibernate Mapping – <set/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fluent Ado.Net (Chris Brandsma)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• F#: A day of writing a little twitter application (Mark Needham)
• NHibernate’s Future Queries And Their Fallback Behavior (Davy Brion)
• How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• CUMUY PRESENTS: XNA GS (Pedro D. Güida)
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering (Oleg Sych)

 

Web Development

• Striped GridView the Easy Way w/ jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Language Envy – Juicy, a simple webserver (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models (Stephen Walther)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC (Justin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• X Tests are not X Tests (Michael Feathers)
• Agile practices are not just about management. (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• "I don’t have time to test!" (jlockwood)
• DDDD: Event Storage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Death to the Space Infidels! (Jeff Atwood)
• NCover v3 rocks! (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Layout Manager for Prism v2 (Ron Gramann)
• WPF : More Mediator Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend—Part 1 (Markus Egger)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints (Pixel8 Podcast)
• Tips and Advice – Team Rooms (Bob Payne)
• The Thirsty Developer 58: Applying SOA (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 66 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 13th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming April geekSpeaks (Glen Gordon)
• 5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following (Justin Etheredge)
• 300 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Logo Contest Winner for serverfault.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and Tricks for creating User Group communication channels with your members. (Eric Hexter)
• ASP.NET MVC – CMAP HOL Group Meeting – Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Updates Reporting Services, Office Integration, Data Mining, and More (Bruce Kyle)
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function (Rob Conery)
• SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Roll Member (Pinal Dave)
• ExecuteSQLExecutingQuery : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Copy SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)

 

PowerShell

• Using Script Functions in the PowerShell Pipeline ( Take Two ) (Joel Bennett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control (Eric Sink)
• The Apple Tax (Steve Clayton)
• LiveLessons Python Fundamentals Review (Mike Riley)
• Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to view revisions for entire wiki – #014 and How not to apply wiki formatting in your CodePlex wiki page – #015 (Sara Ford)
• On Learning Boo (Ian Cooper)
• From Imperative to Functional – Transposing Maps (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Microsoft Virtualization” Learning Snack & free e-book (Devon Musgrave)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 13th) (Brad Abrams)
• The Morning Brew #326 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #111 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day