Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – May 9-10, 2009

Web Development

• jQuery Cheat Sheet (Matt Kruse)
• ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing (Jeff Putz)
• An Async Html cache – part II – Testing the cache (Luca Bolognese)
• Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available (Tangible Engineering)
• Fluent Validation Model Binder – ASP.NET MVC (Adam)
• Override Inline CSS – I had no idea! (Dave M. Bush)
• Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• My.Unity.Resolve(Of Ninja) and Unity and ASP.NET (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Communicating Between FieldTemplates in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• GridView with no Inline Styles (mostly!) (Scott Galloway)
• Debugging Silverlight in IE8 (on Windows 7) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Bluffer’s Guide to Accelerators, Slices and Search Providers (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3, .Net RIA Services, and common lookup data Redux (Bob Baker)
• New themes for Silverlight 2.0! (Dax Pandhi)
• Using the WPF ObservableCollection with EF Entities (Beth Massi)
• A Tour Through Microsoft Silverlight 3 RIA Services (Peter Bromberg)
• Expression Blend 3: More on Actions, Triggers, Behaviors (Mike Taulty) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues (Tess Ferrandez)
• Entity Framework – Change Track & Update Entities based on Views (Julie Lerman)
• Axum Bits Have Been Released (Justin Etheredge)
• Axum Hits CTP (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Using LINQ to Manage File Resources and Context Menus (Michael Sorens)
• Parameterised component resolution with the Windsor NamingPartsSubSystem and Multi-tenanted services with the Windsor WCF Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Type Classes Are The Secret Sauce (Matthew Podwysocki)
• F#: Regular Expression/Active Patterns (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Out of process session state vs. explicit state management (Oren Eini)
• The Agility Cycle – Part 3 (Brad Appleton)
• Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection (Karl Seguin)
• Utils and Common is Dead! (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Mindless vs. Mindful Meetings, or “How to think before you meet” (Kyle Baley)
• Builders, Story Tellers, Whiners – Part 5 (Rajiv Popat)
• AutoTest.NET Changes Now in Source and UppercuT – The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework (Rob Reynolds)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #179 – BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software (Scott Hanselman)
• This week on C9: Windows 7, WPF futures, and use UI testing to automate your job (Brian Keller)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes — Part I: Progress Bar (Gunther Lenz)
• Inside Windows 7: Animation Manager Deep Dive and Tutorial and Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Overview and Windows 7 Location Platform Overview and Windows 7 Libraries Helpers (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2009 Edition (final update) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Still alive and kicking (Ken Jones)
• SQL Usergroup starting in Cambridge (Simon Sabin)

Database

• Disaster/Recovery for Reporting Services objects (rdl, rds etc..) (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Find Last Date Time Updated for Any Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide (MS Downloads)
• How much Azure juice am I drinking? (Jamie Thomson)
• Pseudocode or Code? (Jeff Atwood)
• You can “fix” a CodePlex work item via a SVN Client – #031 (Sara Ford)
• Micro-Benchmarking Considered Harmful and “XYZ Is Bad For Performance” (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 8, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #343 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #117 (Darren Stokes)
• Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 8th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 319 (Sam Gentile)

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