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Dew Drop – February 6, 2010

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Top Links

Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request (Robby Ingebretsen)
AndAnd.NET (Andrew Stopford)
Using Unit of Work Pattern with Entity Framework (Gil Fink)

.NET / Visual Studio

Introducing .NET 4.0 (the book that is) (Mike Ormond)
New Visual Studio Process Template Certification Program (Stephanie Saad)
The 6th of Diduary: Did you know you can record a user’s actions for debugging? (Jeff Blankenburg)
Scoop: Reflector v6 pro RTM to be released by the 15th of this month (Patrick Smacchia)
Functional C#: LINQ vs Method chaining (Mark Needham)
Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator (Matthew Podwysocki)
Integrating ELMAH for a WCF Service (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Performance: Using LCG to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
Query Continuations in Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

View Models in ASP.NET MVC (Simon Ince)
MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 RC2 (.NET 3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part I) (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Traditional architecture makes me flinch (Oren Eini)
Programmer Tip: Consider Looking For Your Own Sources Of Motivation. (Rajiv Popat)
CQRS – Event Sourcing (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

ViewModel Active Awareness in a Prism Based Application (Daniel Vaughan)
Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
WPF Quick Tip: How to Restrict Window Size in WPF 4 and Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers (Jesse Liberty)
Help Me Figure Out What to Write (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

TWC9: Sara Ford, recognize touch gestures, make Windows 7 into a hotspot (Dan Fernandez)
Stack Overflow Podcast #82 (Jeff Atwood)
jQuery Podcast 10 – appendTo (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
Don Box – feelings for XML (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

Philly Alt.NET “Practical DDD in .NET” Presentation: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)

Database

Interesting UNION with ORDER BY behavior (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Paging With SPListItemCollectionPosition (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet v2.0 Speeds Through Phone Menus (Adam Pash)
Over 200 DRM-free Microsoft Press eBooks now available (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 — #793 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 5-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
Weekend Reading, February 5th (Dominic Carr)
Required Reading – January 2010 Week 1 (Mike Ceranski)
New and Notable 401 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition

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Dew Drop – September 10, 2009

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Telerik Offers Free Developer Team Management Tools (Justin Sargent)
First step in troubleshooting complex issues: Define and scope your issue properly (Tess Ferrandez)
Sorry, but I just don’t get Oslo (Jeremy D. Miller)
Big Huge Objects and WCF (Kirstin Juhl)
ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections (Shawn Wildermuth)
What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- I (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

Embeddable Google Document Viewer (Alex Chitu)
Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Adding Menu Components (Bogdan Zamfir)
NetFlix API (Dave Cook)
The Future of the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control (G. Andrew Duthie)
Matching links with regular expression in HTML (David Vidmar)
Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
XML, XPath, and Namespaces (Robert L. Bogue)
How Subtext’s Lucene.net index is structured (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

SOA may be failing, but the approaches will live on (Simon Brown)
Exceptional and Substitutable (Dave Laribee)
Recommended Books: Ship It! (Davy Brion)
Your unit test may smell if…….! (Derik Whittaker)
There are Two Types of Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
How do you use Pex in Visual Studio? Your Input Is Needed! (Jonathan de Halleux)
Is face to face pairing better? and Spend at least 50% of your time with your team (Roy Osherove)
Impersonators: Using them in showcases (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight 4 to do for PCs what HD DVD couldn’t (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) (Phani Raj)
New articles about the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Expression Blend Sketchflow (CodeFest)
DeepFriedBytes Episode 36: What Happens In The Speaker’s Lounge is Supposed to Stay In the Speaker’s Lounge (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Link of the Day
10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7 (Jason Olson)
Video Killed the Radio Star (Jennifer Marsman)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #139: Learning the Specification Pattern (Tim Barcz)
Screencast: Project Planning 101 (Dux Raymond Sy)
ThirstyDeveloper #72 – A Lot of Something (Dave Bost)
Ade Miller and Patterns of Parallel Programming (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Me)
Interview on DZone About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
TechEd Australia – 25 Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips (Sara Ford)
Death of a user group, or “How to give up” (Kyle Baley)

Database

Updating Existing Data with SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
RESTful Northwind on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server Extracting Data (again) (George Mastros)
Spools in Execution Plans (Grant Fritchey)
SQL SERVER – SQL Server Desktop Screen Background (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

How to: Add a folder to a SharePoint list using C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft: The Apple Best Buy Slides Are Legit, Too (Nicholas Kolakowski)
US Government Opens-Up to OpenID and Information Cards (Andres Ferrate)
ImageResizer PowerToy Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
How would Apple Market their OS without Windows? (Stephen Chapman)
WorkScore: A Social Resume (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #430 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 — #687 and Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 – 2 — #688 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for 9th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Double Shot #537 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Programming WCF Services (9780596521301): Juval Lowy: Books

ISBN: 0596521308
ISBN-13: 9780596521301

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Dew Drop – March 2, 2009

Silverlight

Book Review: Silverlight 2 In Action (Davy Brion)
Dispatcher, Cross-Thread Property Setting & Lambda Expressions (Jesse Liberty)
EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 – Can you Query me now? (Mike Griffin)

Web Development

MVC ViewPage Compile Error, or “How to exist in both places” (Kyle Baley)
Quake Live Review and Rant – Why is this interesting? (Scott Hanselman)
Talking Points: ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) (Joel Reyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5 (Dan Wahlin)
What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
LINQ – Using Quantifiers like Any, Contains and All while Querying Objects (Suprotim Agarwal)
Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors (Tim Barcz)
ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Coming! (Shawn Wildermuth)
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 is on its way (John Papa)
Creating DTOs using AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Perceived Requirements or “All Users Lie” (Casey Charlton)
Typemock NUnit Results to TeamCity (Stephen Wright)
What Johannes Kepler Can Teach Us About Debugging (Scott Mitchell)
What’s in Your Wallet? and What’s in your wallet? – Part 2 (Mike Glenn)
Stuck between a rock and a hard place (Corey Haines)
Trade Offs: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

Media from AltNetSeattle 2009, Redmond, WA (Weston M. Binford III & others) – Link of the Day
ALT.NET “Mean” – How do we fix it? (Chad Myers)
A busy quarter, DDD and stuff (Sebastien Lambla)
ALT.NET Seattle Day Two and ALT.NET Seattle Day 3 and I’m Speaking At Mix 2009 (Phil Haack)
A Coalition of the Willing (Jeremy D. Miller)
Experiencing ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Open Spaces (Scott Hanselman)
Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman and What are YOU going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes (Pinal Dave)

Database

I Am But a Humble Filing Clerk (Ken Downs)

PowerShell

Where Did That Come From? (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Bites from the Apple: Form and Function (Agen Schmitz)
Nordic Track Book Club Review: Flip! (Dave Burke)
Windows Server 2008 Web Edition – Ready For Primetime (Bart Czernicki)
Updated Reading List (Davy Brion)
Spore API Contest Challenges Developers to Have Some Fun (Kevin Farnham)
10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories (Stacy Conradt)
Live Search to get new features…oh and a new brand, too (Kip Kniskern)
The Promise and Peril of Jumbo Frames (Jeff Atwood)
True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe (Roy Osherove)
Code Cast #24 – On Functional Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)
Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo – Full book now available (Ayende Rahien)
Five things every Windows beta tester should know (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #297 (Chris Alcock)
Links of the week #73 (David Vidmar)
Links (3/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 83 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Software Testing (2nd Edition): Ron Patton: Books

ISBN: 0672327988
ISBN-13: 9780672327988

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