Dew Drop – July 24, 2009

 

Web Development

• RESTful ASP.NET MVC (Garry Shutler)
• Extending SubText to report Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fizzler (Colin Ramsay)
• Session State Not Working? Check Your Web Garden! (Scott Mitchell)
• More Fun With LINQ – Perform Common Tasks in ASP.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Check Out the New IE8 Developer Tools Tutorials (Duc (Cash) Vo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM (Niraj Bhatt)
• Composed Regex (Martin Fowler)
• NHibernate and NDepend – skimming the surface (Oren Eini)
• 10 Rules for writing Good SDKs (Christopher Diggins)
• Zen: Does This Project Management Tool Live Up to its Name? (Darrell Etherington)
• Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Gunnar Peipman)
• Wrapping collections: Inheritance vs Composition (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Iterator Blocks, Part Five: Push vs Pull (Eric Lippert)
• Behavior and Data Centricity (Jonathan Oliver)
• TestApi v0.3 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• How I’m using the Event Aggregator Pattern in StoryTeller (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who’s payin’ the bills?, or “How to drive a stake in the ground” (Kyle Baley)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Tim Barcz)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using a Border for a Glow Effect in Silverlight 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight (ailon)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql (Brad Abrams)
• Using the Matrix3DProjection Class in Silverlight 3 and Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt (Karsten Januszewski)
• .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RTW (Pete Brown)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel and Linq: Sorting a DataTable (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Generating SQL script from model (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Tag API Released (Jim O’Neil)
• Building Declarative WCF Services in .NET 4.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) (Habib Heydarian)
• Code Providers 101 — Implementing Unimplemented Properties (Mark Miller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)
• Tips and Advice – Continuous Integration (Bob Payne)
• Code Cast 28 – Jim Wierich (Chris Brandsma)
• The History of Microsoft – 1998 (Tina)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Microsoft PowerShell User Group of Upstate New York (Joel Bennett)
• Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston, VA (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Keep up with DevelopMentor on Twitter (Michael Kennedy)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Database

• Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio – Full Screen – New Screen (Pinal Dave)
• Speeding up SQL Server Management Studio Startup (Martin Bell)

 

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 RTM (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Partner Releases Free Word 2007 Sample Design Templates and Microsoft Releases Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Helps You Understand Recursion (Alex Chitu)
• Watching Trends = Job Security (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ (Ed Bott)
• Windows 7 RTMs: Where’s Windows Live? (Kip Kniskern)
• Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now (Will Kelly)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 2 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• A Developer’s Look at Xobni (Ryan Farley)
• How to pass technical interview in Better Place (Tamir Khason)
• More questions on Professional Development Reading Habits (Joe Stagner)
• Why Fundamentals are Important to Microsoft’s Bottom-line (Peter Ritchie)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #397 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 23, 2009 — #653 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #5 (Joel Cochran)
• CloudNews for 23rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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