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Top Links
- ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released (Phil Haack) – Phil announces what looks to be the last release of v2 before it ships with VS2010.
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Scott Guthrie) – VS2010 to be delayed a few weeks so MS can release an RC build in February to address performance concerns.
- World# – Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight (Rene Schulte) – Rene is doing some really amazing 3D stuff with Silverlight, A must-read!
- Moonlight 2 is now available (Silverlight Team) – V2 offers SL2 features and some bits of SL3.
- The Law of Unintended Consequences (Justin Etheredge) – Nice post from Justin that reminds us to be conscious of possible side-effects when we make decisions in software development.
.NET / Visual Studio
- VS2010 Modeling; Create Lifeline from Component (Clemens Reijnen)
- Developing an installer for your Surface application (Eric St. John)
- F#: Word Count – A somewhat failed attempt (Mark Needham)
- Lessons In Building An Email Parser (Rob Reynolds)
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended (Somasegar)
- Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition (Bill Wagner)
- Using LINQPad with NHibernate (Alan Northam)
- Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard (Stephen Forte)
Web Development
- A Bit About Spark and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner (Mike Ormond)
- Understanding Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
- ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta – Strongly Typed UI Helpers (Malcolm Sheridan)
- The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 4 – Integrating Siege.ServiceLocation with ASP.NET MVC and The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation Part 5 – A guide to getting started with Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Balsamiq Mid-Week Release: finishing up Zoom (Peldi Guilizzoni)
- How to write MEF in 2 hours or less (Oren Eini)
- Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types (Jimmy Bogard)
- Leadership Tip: Leaders Who Are Always Busy Often Make Really Bad Leaders. (Rajiv Popat)
- What Is The Difference Between an IoC Container and MEF? (Jak Charlton)
Silverlight / WPF
- Flash to Silverlight Guide – MovieClip to UserControl (Adam Kinney)
- Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand (Laurent Bugnion)
- Extending the SMF for the HVP (Jesse Liberty)
- Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine (Rudi Grobler)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 12 of 13 (Charles Torre)
- WebDevRadio Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft (Michael Kimsal)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features – Tuples (Derik Whittaker)
- New PowerGUI Overview Video (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Pete at PDC09: Jon Galloway on Witty Twitter and Pete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo! (Pete Brown)
- The Thirsty Developer 80: Meeting the New Guy, Clark Sell (Dave Bost)
- Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis (Nic Fillingham)
- MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Real Time Web and Silverlight (Eric Nelson)
Community / Events
- Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Sara Ford)
- CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code. (Glenn Block)
Database
- The Top 20 Questions in Database Design (Buck Woody)
- Reporting Services Licensing (Joe Webb)
- SQL SERVER – Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
- Transaction Log Fragmentation??? (Lawrence Overbey)
Miscellaneous
- Tools of the Tech Tweet Trade (Elijah Manor)
- C# 4, ASP.NET 4, WPF 4, and VB 2010 Sample Preview Chapters (Jim Minatel)
- DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding (Jeff Atwood)
- Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool (Nik Fletcher)
- Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
- Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More (Krishnan Subramanian)
- Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder (Greg Duncan)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #501 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
- Tech Tweets for 17-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
- Top 5 Essays You Should Read (Kirk Knoernschild)
- Links (12/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
- Creators Club Communiqué 35 (Kathleen Sanders)
The Geek Shelf
Silverlight 3 Jumpstart (9780981511801): David Yack, Julie Yack: Books ISBN: 0981511805 |