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Dew Drop – August 14, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

Web Development

Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
“Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

Silverlight / WPF

Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
[ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

Database

Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Non-Book of the Day

Zune HD 32 GB Video MP3 Player (Platinum): Electronics

ASIN: B002JPITY8

Technorati Tags: zune hd,.net framework,sharepoint,powershell,sql server,silverlight,linq,nhibernate,mocks,google reader,dzone,msdn,windows azure

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Dew Drop – July 16, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
[ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Game Programming with Silverlight: Michael Snow: Books

ISBN: 1598639064
ISBN-13: 9781598639063

Technorati Tags: .net framework,coderush,office 2010,sharepoint,google reader,sql server,ssis,ssrs,wpf,prism v2,silverlight 3,wcf,s#arp architecture,asp.net mvc,nhibernate,f#

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