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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – January 24-25, 2009

Silverlight

Video Slider Control in Action and HSN.tv Video Player (Corey Schuman)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #87 – How to Change the Startup Class (Mike Snow)
My First Silverlight Part 4 – Create the Silverlight Application (Ton Stegeman)

.NET / Visual Studio

How to Write Your Own Code Snippets (Gil Fink)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #4 – Storing and Retrieving Weights (Eric Gunnerson)
Microsoft SDKs (G. Andrew Duthie)
Building WCF Services with F#, Part 2 and Building WCF Services with F#, Interlude (Ted Neward)
What Part of the Process Are Your Tools Optimized For? (Justin Etheredge)
Making a Field Read-Only Via the ReadOnlyAttribute – Dynamic Data and Setting the Initial Sort Order – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
Relive the Tip of the Day Series in Video! with Scott Cate (Sara Ford)
Programming Entity Framework Table of Contents (Julie Lerman)
LinqPad for the Entity Framework (Simon Segal via Shawn Wildermuth)
Reflector Addin: CopyPath and VS Command Prompt Here (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Learning Pack (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

jQuery: Approaches to Testing (Mark Needham)
De-emphasizing Comments in Code? (JP Hamilton)
We All Write Bad Code (Davy Brion)
Convention over Configuration in MSDN Magazine (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web Development

Remove WWW. Prefix from URLs with URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript (John Resig)
MVC Storefront Part 26: Finis (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Database

Tips for Writing Better SQL (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

On Teaching, Learning, and Being Honest with Ourselves (Scott C. Reynolds)
Developer Productivity – 5 Ways to Kill It (Justin)
Management vs Leadership (Derick Bailey)
Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder (Sasha Goldshtein)
Halo Wars Goes Gold (Mark Harrison)
Common Issues in Assessing Browser Performance (Christian Stockwell)
Sneak Peek of the New Windows Live FrameIt (damaster)

More Link Collections

Triple Shot Links #17 (Russell Ball)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 8 (Denis Gobo)
Discoveries This Week 01/23/2009 (Rick Minerich)
Tech Twitterings #12 (Elijah Manor)
Bag of Links #1 (Chinh Do)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.24 (yuan jian)
Interesting Finds: January 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2009 — #496 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for January 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers: Steve Souders: Books

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Dew Drop – January 23, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Don’t Make ‘Read-Only’ Fields Less Readable (Leon Bambrick)
Refactoring: Introduce Constant (Gunnar Peipman)
Learning StructureMap Through Tiny Goals (Chris Missal)
My Thoughts About IRepository (Laila Bougria)
Repositories and IQueryable, the Paging Case (Jérémie)
p&p – Web Service with REST Application Pattern (Colin Jack)
More About Test Case Reuse (James Whittaker)
Code Noise Part 2! (David Yancey)
Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

EntityObject Class Constructors (Julie Lerman)
Multiple Outputs from T4 Made Easy (Damien Guard)
Reading Declarations (Eric Lippert)
Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The Time Has Come – Your Win32 Application Will Change (Michael Chourdakis)
Many-to-One Mapping with Composite-ID’s with FluentNHibernate and DimeCasts .NET #79 – Learning How to Use the XML Serializer (Derik Whittaker)
Using the Kinetic Framework with a Non-Table-Based Entity (Joel Ross)
Hanselminutes Podcast 147 – The New WPF-Based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 – Interview with a Dev (Scott Hanselman)
AutoMapper – The Object-Object Mapper (Jimmy Bogard)

Web Development

Matthew MacDonald’s Hot List of Useful Web Sites (Sara Peyton)
jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET and Friday Books – Teach Yourself ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
Introducing Azure Issue Tracker Sample Application (Joe Stagner)
Do Not Blame ASP.NET WebForms (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
Method for Retrieving Movie Posters and ASP.NET Application Lockdown on IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project (Jan Tielens)
Firebug Rocks for CSS Manipulation (Jason Grundy)
Speed Up Your JavaScript with Memoization and Queueing (Dion Almaer)
Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders Under Views (Billy McCafferty)
Redirecting with the Click of a Button (Scott Mitchell)

Silverlight / WPF

Video: Learning CRUD and Data Forms in Silverlight 2 – Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Episode 3 (Ilia Iordanov)
Control Creation (or Why Silverlight Needs a Blink Control) (Shawn Wildermuth)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #86 – How to Load External Images (Mike Snow)
WPF Wonders: Properties and Events (Rod Stephens)
My First Silverlight Part 3 – Create the Silverlight Web Part (Ton Stegeman)

.NET Community / Events

CodeMash Wrapup (John Stockton)

Database

SQL Server 2005,2008 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Welcome to Windows 7 (Sasha Goldshtein)
Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Others Lay Off Tons (Robert Scoble) – Best of luck to all those impacted by these cuts.
WHS v2 and Power Pack 2 Announced (Michael Ceranski)
Unlock Hidden Themes in Windows 7 and It’s a Windows 7 Love Fest (Sarah Perez)
How to Remove Windows 7 Send Feedback, Watermark Text (Brad Linder)
Tips on Upgrading from VSS to Subversion (Russell Ball)
Microsoft to Release IE8 RC1 Next Week (Tom Warren)
Microsoft Hiring Update (Gretchen Ledgard)
Tips for Being More Productive (Dan Wahlin)
Open Source Software, Self Service Software (Jeff Atwood)
Microsoft to Merge Windows Live and Office Live (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #102 and Visual Studio Links #103 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 — #492 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 2 — #493 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 3 — #494 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 4 — #495 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for January 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
CloudNews for January 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (1/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #271 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Scott Mitchell: Books

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Dew Drop – January 21, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration (Scott Guthrie)
Survey – Camtasia and Silverlight (G. Andrew Duthie)
Expression Newsletter – Silverlight Toolkit Charting Article (Pete Brown)
Silverlight Docking and Ribbon Controls (Tim Heuer)
.NET Fireside Chats – Laurent Bugnion on ‘Silverlight 2 Unleashed’ (Me)
My First Silverlight Part 1 – Introduction and Preparation and Part 2 – Create the WCF News Service (Ton Stegeman)
WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)

.NET / Visual Studio

Refactoring: Expose Static Method and EnumHelper Class and Refactoring: Delete Unneeded Code (Gunnar Peipman)
ExtractM "Oslo" Sample (Chris Sells)
Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform (Jeff Barnes)
Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection (Amit Raz)
Simple Port Scanner Written in VB.NET 2003/2008 (Chris Pietschmann)
Enterprise Library Logging 101 (David Starr)
Truncate a Path String (Srinath MS)
Installing ReSharper 4.5 in an Experimental Visual Studio Hive (James Kovacs)
Learning Windows Workflow Foundation – Release: Introduction to Fault Handling (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

Quick Tip: Prevent Animation Queue Buildup (Brandon Aaron)
Capturing and Playing Back Web Service Calls with Wireshark and SoapUI (Mike Hadlow)
HTML5 Introduction (Richard Heyes)
Periodically Updating the Screen and Web Page Title with ASP.NET AJAX (Scott Mitchell)
50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools (Jacob Gube)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Sometimes I Write Bad Code (JP Hamilton)
Extreme Programming Explained (Gunnar Peipman) – A review of Kent Beck’s book.
Coding: Contextual Learning and C#: Builder Pattern Still Useful for Test Data (Mark Needham)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Using Type Classes (Matthew Podwysocki)
Multi-Dimensional Seniority (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day
DDD: Specification or Query Object (Greg Young)
JavaScript Decorator Pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
When to Use Dependency Injection (Miško Hevery)
Developer Diary – Ramp Up (Dave Bost)
It Takes a Master to Lead an Apprentice (Sergio Pereira)
NCover – Code Coverage for .NET Developers (Stephen Ward)

.NET Community / Events

Review of the MDC at NYC (Dave M. Bush)

Database

SqlDependency and SQL Service Broker Permissions (Keith Elder)
SQL Server Code Repository on Live Mesh (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

Before I Sign, Can I See Your Codebase? (Peter Eysermans)
Thoughts on Three Monitors for Developers (Roland Weigelt)
Ruby Is Cool – Part #1 (Michael Ceranski)
Mozilla’s Ubiquity Gets Faster, Prettier (Josh Lowensohn)
Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-In (Joe Stagner)
Small Basic Is on Channel 9 (Vijay)
Cookbook, Guide Can Assist in Windows 7 Application Compatibility Tests (Bruce Kyle)
The One Thing Programmers and Musicians Have in Common (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Creators Club Communiqué 14 (Kathleen Sanders)
Weekly Links for 1/21/09 (Dana Coffey)
LINKBLOG for January 20. 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.18~01.21 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #269 (Chris Alcock)
Link Listing – January 20, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Everyman Links for January 20, 2009 (Dave Burke)
CloudNews for January 20th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change: Kent Beck: Books

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