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Dew Drop – January 10, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Dear Microsoft: Please Simplify Your Platform for Developers (Keith Elder)
Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx (Adam Kinney)
Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase (Steve Bohlen)

.NET / Visual Studio

Beware of Evil Wizards (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

Patterns and Origins: Sueetie SiteSettings and Patterns and Origins: The SueetieApplication Class (Dave Burke)
ASP.NET MVC Mobile Detection & Redirection (matrixmesh)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: An F# attempt (Mark Needham)
Leadership Tip: Stick To Your Core Values And Pass Them On Across Teams. (Rajiv Popat)
There’s Nothing Courageous About Being Honest About Mistakes (Davy Brion)
We Want Our Small Companies Back (Mike Cottmeyer)
The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)

Silverlight / WPF

Sketching, painting and Figure drawing (Pavan Podila)
A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5 (Pete Brown)
Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4 (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 138: Live From CES 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
Stack Overflow Podcast #79 (Jeff Atwood)
Herding Code 67: Udi Dahan on Scalability (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

Winners of the TekPub LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

Database

Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) (Pinal Dave)
Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

How to Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Predictions for 2010 Part III- The Cloud (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: 2010 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2010 — #773 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: January 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
What Is Hot In Open Source? (weekly) (Krishnan Subramanian)

The Geek Shelf

Technorati Tags: cloud computing,visual studio,wpf,silverlight,sql server,windows 7,asp.net,sueetie,linq

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Dew Drop – December 30, 2009

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Top Links

Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 🙂
Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

2009’s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out

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Dew Drop – November 11, 2009

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

.NET / Visual Studio

Application Settings (Richard Carr)
.NET 4.0 is so Lazy (Fredrik Normén)
Lists in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Moth)
Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. (Zachariah Young)

Web Development

Upload a File via WebRequest Using CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
ASP.NET MVC is MUCH better than MS seems to think (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 3 (Fredrik Normén)
Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0 (Jarod Ferguson)
Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client (Scott Mitchell)
Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR ! (Joe Stagner)
Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster (Peter Kellner)
Calling the Google Closure Javascript Compiler – Code (Kim Major)
Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED] (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
Easy Mockups with Balsamiq (Grant Palin)
In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming" (Doug Rohrer)
Interface Inheritance Esoterica (Phil Haack)
Coding: Pushing the logic back (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object and Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files and Silverlight and RIA: Enum Properties (Deborah Kurata)
Embedding IronPython in Silverlight – Importing (Jimmy Schementi)
New WPF Features: Cached Composition (Lester Lobo)
Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)
Design feedback for Silverlight needed and Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook (Tim Heuer)
Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
Magellan and Composite WPF and Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
Paper 2010 First Preview + New Releases Imminent (Dax Pandhi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos on Channel9 (Andrew Connell)
C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
DeepFriedBytes Episode 39: Building Composite WPF Applications with Claudio Lassala (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview (Tina Wood)
This Week in Testing: Episode 3 – Magic Numbers (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features (Robert Hess)
How to Cancel Work using .NET4 CancellationToken (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
Asp.Net Mvc 2 (Chris Canal) – Upcoming ScotALT.NET Meeting
[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir (Matthew Podwysocki)
Travelogue: Oredev 2009 Wrap-Up (Stephen Bohlen)
Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day One (Jimmy Bosse)
My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

Using Transactions with SqlBulkCopy (Scott Mitchell)
From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Chris Sells)
Do not use spaces or other invalid characters in your column names (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Updates "SyncToy" File Synchronization Program for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Virtual Router" Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Research Labs Releases "Social Web Experience Toolbar" for Internet Explorer (Blake Handler)
Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what? (Joel Bennett)
Google unveils the ‘Go’ programming language (Cristian)
Microsoft to Release Vista Ultimate Extras on Windows 7 (Muhammad Ali)
PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Ditch these 6 words (Anne Cheng) – Resume tips.
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Wanted: Microsoft seeks Midori OS UI Architect (Stephen Chapman)
Rejoice, surfers! Bing it up with free WiFi access across the US (Sebastian Anthony)
A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming (Bill Wagner)
PowerShell your PDC (Greg Duncan)
A Move Into The Cloud Is Inevitable (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #474 (the real 474) (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 — #728 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 10-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
New and Notable 389 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Microsoft® ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (PRO-Developer) (9780735626218): Dino Esposito: Books

ISBN: 0735626219
ISBN-13: 9780735626218

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