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Dew Drop – January 9, 2010

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Top Links

Teaching Kids to Code – FREE classes in Jan 2010 (Vijaye)
Scanning images in WPF via WIA (Pete Brown)
TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One (Cameron Skinner)
Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory (Tom Hearn)
How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

"Hello, World" in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow (Karl Seguin)
A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
Open and publish a live website in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects (Oren Eini)
Some preliminary thoughts on end-to-end testing in Growing Object-Oriented Software (Brian Marick)
Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior (Bob Bartholomay)
Fluent Silverlight – static reflection and Fluent Silverlight – Table of content (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How to Live to be 100: A Mindmap and Video (Chance Brown)
Video ambient lighting effects (Coding4Fun)
geekSpeak Recording – The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Windows Workflow Services and the .NET Framework 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Generics and Collections and geekSpeak Recording – Refactoring Tips and Tricks with Llewellyn Falco and geekSpeak Recording – Rich Internet Applications with Windows Azure (Emily Gibson)
A Deeper Look at Speech NUI (Larry Larsen)
This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 2 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

Vote for the UberProf case study in Mix 2010 (Oren Eini)
Boston Geek Dinner – January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Things I’d Like To Present (Christopher Bennage)
Codemash 2.0.1.0 – Speaking, MCing and Podcasting (Keith Elder)

Database

How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
SQL Server Reporting Services Reading linebreak in textbox (Steve Simon)
Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)
SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

Set your hotkeys in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
The ultimate ‘God Mode’ list: 39 secret Windows 7 shortcuts (Ed Bott)
Creative Commons Data Dump Jan 10 (Jeff Atwood)
Three post-CES goals for Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
January’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore? (Stephen Chapman)
Microsoft at CES: Finally, what to expect from Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)
Bing deconstructed! (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2010 — #772 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 8-Jan-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Ironpython in Action

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Dew Drop – December 25, 2009

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Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM LinksInfo (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

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Dew Drop – December 22, 2009

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Top Links

Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in dotNET 4 (Kevin Jones) – Kevin examines the new dynamic keyword coming in .NET 4.0 with some tips on when/how to use it.
Magellan with Windows Forms (Paul Stovell) – Just because you have to develop with WinForms doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of MVC.
Render Silverlight in WPF – WPF SilverlightViewport (Jeremiah Morrill) – Hosting Silverlight in a WPF app… there’s an API for that.

.NET / Visual Studio

6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts (Hatim Rih)
Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] (David Anson)
Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary (Tess Ferrandez)
Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
Discovering Dallas: Part 3 (Jim O’Neil)
How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception (Peter Kellner)
Entity Framework troubleshooting and performance (Simon Sabin)
Exploring Dynamic Data: Textual attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

e-Commerce using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Ramani Sandeep)
Using jQuery To Hijack ASP.NET MVC Form Posts (Malcolm Sheridan)
JS Methods, static and instance (Kris Gray)
Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Effectus: Isolated features (Oren Eini)
8 Ways to Be Heroic (Noah Blumenthal)
Essential Habits Of An Effective Professional Freelancer (Rob Smith)
Testing tips (That is testability, not TDD part 2) (Wes McClure)
Why GUI Test Automation is Popular and Tempting? Part I – Business context (Shrini Kulkarni)
One change at a time (Mark Needham)
Managers Are Not Game Designers! (Jurgen Appelo)
That Rotting Design (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

Falling Snow in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Day #21: Rapid Silverlight Prototyping In SketchFlow (Jeff Blankenburg)
Magellan View Engines (Paul Stovell)
WPF Manipulation Basics (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

[Video] Spark View Engine Part 1 (Mike Ormond)
.NET Rocks! – Eric Lawrence on Fiddler (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 1 and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 2 (Nic Fillingham)
Episode 95- PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Jones from the CS Techcast on SQL (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Pluralcast #4: Developing for the Cloud (David Starr)
SharePoint 2010 Branding-Episode 40 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

Chris’ Year in Review 2009 (Chris Missal)
3 years of Encosia, the best of 2009, and my gratitude (Dave Ward)
Getting started at Microsoft (Jon Galloway)
Spoke at Girl Geek Dinner – World Still Intact (Sara J. Chipps)
Windows Azure for Microsoft Partners (Steve Clayton)

Database

Geek City: Exploring the Transaction Log Structure (Kalen Delaney)
SQL Azure Data Sync tool (Stephen Forte)
SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
Here’s a couple of helpful observations on VSeWSS 1.3 and Here’s a walkthrough building an Event Receiver in VSeWSS (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

Is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on his way out the door in 2010? (Nicholas Kolakowski)
Hacking PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 (Joe Wilcox)
The meaning of open (Jonathan Rosenberg)
Windows 8: LinkedIn’s Latest (Stephen Chapman)
The 10 Tech Commandments for Employment After Age 40 (Shlomi Ben-haim)
Latest Must Have Software (Tim Boland)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #502 and The Morning Brew #503 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2009 — #759 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 21-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/21/2009 (Pete Brown)
Weekly Link Post 124 (Rhonda Tipton)
F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

The Ultimate HTML Reference

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