.net 4.0 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – November 15, 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

Linq to Sql Profiler is now on public beta (Oren Eini)
Useful Query Editor Query – 1 (Jason Haley)
"M" For Language Definition in November 2009 CTP (Chris Sells)
Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file (Gunnar Peipman)
Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? (Jason Jarrett)
An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan (Julie Lerman)
Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers (Eric Havir)
MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
ADO.NET Data Services : Efficient Error Handling across Application Tiers (Phani Raj)
November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK (Sam Gentile)
DevExpress 2009.3 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More! and TDD Support Refactorings for CodeRush/Refactor!Pro: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject (and more!) (Steve Bohlen)
More Data Binding (David Fowler)

Web Development

ASP.NET 4.0 – and semantic markup and ASP.NET 4.0 – New Project Templates (Mike Ormond)
ASP.NET MVC: Validating objects using Enterprise Library validation application block (Gunnar Peipman)
Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Jason Grundy)
Capturing and Transforming ASP.NET Output with Response.Filter (Rick Strahl)
It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
Consuming a Portable Area with a Web Forms application (Jeffrey Palermo)
Rotate ASP.NET Hyperlink Controls in the Same Position using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Anchor (Steven ‘Doc’ List) – Link of the Day
DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model (Jarod Ferguson)
How to annoy your teammates (Jimmy Bogard)
Code Coverage: What Is It Good For? (Dave Laribee)
KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 1 The high level design (Muhammad Mosa)
TDD: Combining the when and then steps and A reminder to talk to the rubber duck (Mark Needham)
How We Do Things – Specification (Using the right tools) (Scott C Reynolds)
Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

Developer, developer, developer… (Dax Pandhi)
MVVM – This might hurt a little… (Avi Pilosof)
Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
SketchFlow in the Real World (Frank La Vigne)
A MVVM framework “…three hour tour…” (Greg Duncan)
Silverlight: Images (Deborah Kurata)
The Silverlight HVP Spec (Jesse Liberty)
Bug correction in Messenger and new feature in EventToCommand (MVVM Light Toolkit V3 alpha) (Laurent Bugnion)
XAML 2009 Features: Named Object References (Lester Lobo)
Magellan Installer (Paul Stovell)
MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF (Rob Eisenberg)
Silverlight: Avoid Caching When Using WebClient Class (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud – Inside Garbage Collection and E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud (Charles Torre)
Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima (Charlie Calvert)
TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, (Dan Fernandez)
Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
Using Web Service APIs in Your Apps (Twin Cities .NET User Group Talk Video) (John Sheehan)
Engadget Podcast 171 – 11.13.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
IndyHall 201: How IndyHall Communicates with it’s Community (Alex Hillman)
Small Milestone (Davy Brion) – Congrats, Davy!
Author news: Steve McConnell speaking in Bellevue, WA (Devon Musgrave)
Going to PDC09? Want to Meet the WPF Team? The WPF team will be at PDC ready to chat with you! (Jay)
Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four (Jimmy Bosse)
Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange (Karl Scotland)
PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3 (Mike Taulty)
PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Database

Geek City: UPDATE Locks (Kalen Delaney)
Undetectable Distributed Deadlocks (Emtucifor)
Identify procedures that call SQL Server undocumented procedures (George Mastros)
SQL Server 2008 Enterprise feature coming to SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 – Backup Compression (Greg Duncan)
SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
Beginning stages of a DR plan for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
RoundhousE DB Migration: Action Shots (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

Removing a Dead SharePoint Web Part (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal (Eric Sink)
Sign-up & Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software & Services (Blake Handler)
Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
This week in search 11/13/09 (Johanna Wright)
ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
Small Basic Programs in 25 lines (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 — #731 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 13-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 3 Jumpstart (9780981511801): David Yack, Julie Yack: Books

ISBN: 0981511805
ISBN-13: 9780981511801

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Dew Drop – November 13, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver (Jason Grundy)
Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 2: Retrieving Gestures) (Jason Ipock)
InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates and Office 2010: Developer References (MS Downloads)
Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (EF Team)
Closing over the loop variable considered harmful (Eric Lippert)
Databinding 3.0 (David Fowler)
Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
Parallel Debugging (Daniel Moth)
F# – Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining (Rick Minerich)
Can I host a VSIX on my own server? (Quan To)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC in Action (Dave M. Bush)
S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released (Billy McCafferty)
Test-Driving a new feature for JavaScript (Sergio Pereira)
A Tale of 2 Web UIs (Mike Taulty)
Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery (Nick Berardi)
Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? (Lawrence Moroney)
Crushed by complexity—me too, and for a long time (Dino Esposito)
Improving ASP.NET: Finding controls and Part 2 (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

My pomodoro experience (Sebastian Hermida)
Balsamiq Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a fresh coat of paint! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Programmer Tip: Stop Those CYA Emails And Engage In Meaningful Discussions. (Rajiv Popat)
Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
How We Do Things – Evolving our Specification Practice (Scott C. Reynolds)
Adapting our approach for the context (Mark Needham)
Pex 0.19.41110.1: Better Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Support, Smoother Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
CQRS: Reporting Database Access Strategies and The Software Simplist (Jonathan Oliver)
Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec (Howard Dierking)
Lazy Loading is… well… lazy and Tips for ORM Data Access (Jarod Ferguson)
Willed and forced design (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

New themes now available (Dax Pandhi)
Displaying Text at Angles and Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines (Charles Petzold)
Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1 (Chris Pietschmann)
Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design (Arturo Toledo)
Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
New WPF Features: Updated File Dialogs (Lester Lobo)
On Our Cross Plat Commitment (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 7 of 13 and Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future and MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager and MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering (Charles Torre)
Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – MSDN mag companion (Daniel Moth)
TaskCompletionSource (Phil Pennington)
The MNR Show without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
Countdown to PDC09: Steve Marx on Cloud Development (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

IndyHall Member Profiles: Johnny Bilotta (Alex Hillman)
Sacramento .NET Users Group – Microsoft PDC 2009 (Doug Holland)
Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
Why conferences must talk about failure (Scott Berkun)
Back to business for the SQL Server community (Ted Krueger)
Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Course: Leading Software Teams – Essential Practices for team leads (Roy Osherove)

Database

SQL Server Logarithmic Functions (Richard Carr)
OUTER JOIN order (Howard)
Sort transform arbitration [SSIS] and MDS is x64 only (Jamie Thomson)
SSRS 05 Passing Multi-Value Parameters Between Reports. (thirster42)
Best Practice: Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations (Denis Gobo)
From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Sam Gentile)
SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)
Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types (Noam Ben-Ami)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases More Free Visio 2007 Add-ins for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
“Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK! (Kristin Meldahl)
RUMOR: Google’s Chrome OS arriving next week (Jay Hathaway)
Your top Windows 7 questions, answered (Ed Bott)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
A Tentative Content Plan for 2010 (MSDN Magazine)
Xbox LIVE Update coming Nov. 17th (Larry Hyrb)
How to avoid typos on your resume (Anne Cheng)
Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool (Bill Zack)
Discover Bing (Steve Clayton)
The Most Intriguing Concept In Google’s Go Language (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #476 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 12-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Links (11/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum (9780321579362): Mike Cohn: Books

ISBN: 0321579364
ISBN-13: 9780321579362

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Dew Drop – November 12, 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

Mono Tools for Visual Studio allow cross-platform remote debugging (Joel Bennett)
“Smart” Duplicate Line in Visual Studio out of the box (David Vidmar)
Request/Response Service Layer: Exposing The Service Layer Through WCF and Request/Response Service Layer: Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
Reflector to the rescue…AGAIN (Derik Whittaker)
Delete a work Item in TFS (Kirstin Juhl)
First drop of "TMap for VS2010" available on Codeplex (Clemens Reijnen)
Select the Highest value in each Group or Category using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0 (Michael Kennedy)
“Hello GTK#” from the latest IronPython and F# (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

Facebook SDK (Coding4Fun)
Validating A Username Using JQuery and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Chris Love)
ASP.NET Cross Domain Form Submission (Dave M. Bush)
AJAXified jQuery Flip Plugin (Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC wins with simplicity, not features (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform (Lawrence Moroney)
Error Handling in MVC with ELMAH (Michael Ceranski)
ASP.NET Workaround: Calling a JavaScript Function from a HyperLinkField in a GridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Big UI changes and their effect on tests (Brian Marick)
Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members (Jurgen Appelo)
Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
Message Passing Interface (MPI) (Daniel Moth)
What they don’t tell you about user stories (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search (Sacha Barber)
Magellan Controllers (Paul Stovell)
XAML 2009 Features: XAML Event handling (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

In His Own Words: Stephen Wolfram on Computational Knowledge (Adam Sohn)
Introduction to NCover on Dimecasts (Alan Johnson)
.NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte in The Netherlands (Carl Franklin)
Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
SyncToy 2.1 Available for Download (Larry Larsen)
"Parallel Programming Talk" show (Daniel Moth)
Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime (Steve Gillmor)
The Access Show – Episode Two (Tina Wood)
Concurrent Programming with .NET4 Collections (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

Windows Azure PDC Sessions Announced (Mike Ormond)
Another Prism Class Available Jan 11 – Jan 14 (Blaine Wastell)
Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
PDC guide for the busy guy (Greg Duncan)
Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Two (Jimmy Bosse)
PDC and Python (In That Order) (Sara J. Chipps)
My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

Connecting to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 (Bart Czernicki)
SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Azure now available (Greg Duncan)
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
Best Practice: Every table should have a primary key (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Disable CHECK Constraint – Enable CHECK Constraint (Pinal Dave)
Enter The Dragon: RoundhousE DB Migrations (Rob Reynolds)
SSRS 2005 Matrixes (thirster42)

Miscellaneous

Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today (Henry Hall)
Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic (Leon Bambrick)
How Many Calories in a Burger? What’s 2^2^2^2^2? Bing and Wolfram|Alpha Have the Answers (Tracey Yao & Pedro Silva)
ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
Windows 7: Its the Little Things (Debra Shinder)
PowerShell-Based console for SMS 2003 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Static vs. Dynamic languages: What I really want (Jeffrey Palermo)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/12 (Lyndsey Clevesy)
Switching virtual networks the easy way (Peter Van Ooijen)
New App Links SkyDrive to Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
Bing vs. Google rematch on video search (Scott M. Fulton, III)
MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
Captains Log – Twitter Style (Tobin Harris)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #475 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 — #729 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for November 11, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Tech Tweets for 11-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Office 2010 Team Blogs Recap (John Wiese)
Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET MVC in Action (9781933988627): Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard: Books

ISBN: 1933988622
ISBN-13: 9781933988627

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