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Dew Drop – October 1, 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

Chain Of Command And Passing Parameters (Charles Chen)
Lazy: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0 (Bill Wagner)
LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Pitfalls (Jason Young)
Visual Studio 2010 Property Grid Filtering (WebDevTools Team)
Visual Studio 2010 New Editor screenshot (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
Google Wave Public Preview Goes Live (Andres Ferrate)
Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View (Deepak Verma)
Google Wave expands, in search of a clear use-case scenario (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Lower Case URLs and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
Seadragon Ajax Control – Quick Start Guide (James Senior)
Web Application Toolkit for IE8 (Mike Ormond)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bugs, defects and feedback (Jimmy Bogard)
Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader and How to measure programmer productivity using TDD Katas (Roy Osherove)
Well-constructed != Over-architected (Scott C. Reynolds)
Facilitation Antipattern: Negator (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
Successive Method Calls with Stubs (Jonathan de Halleux)
Refactoring with Iterators: Prime Factors (Keith Dahlby)
Introduction to Subversion/SVN – What are those Trunk, Tag and Branch things? (Greg Duncan)
How to Respond Effectively to Design Criticism (Smashing Magazine)
The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight Tip – Managing HTML (Corey Schuman)
Fluids and edge detection in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
Quick and dirty WPF element tree viewer (Josh Smith)
Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors (Silverlight Team)
Are Value Converters Evil? (Christopher Bennage)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Michelle Leroux Bustamante on Web Security (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (Zhiming Xue)
Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
Stack Overflow Podcast #69 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

SQLBits Early Bird has been extended (Simon Sabin)
Poll: Which mockingisolation framework do you use? (Roy Osherove)
Interoperability and Open Source efforts at Microsoft (Dave Bost)

Database

Suffer to succeed. Another SQL Server Import Story (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – SQL Server Management Studio and Client Statistics (Pinal Dave)
Passing Multiple Records to a Stored Procedure in SQL Server (Dan Wahlin)

SharePoint

Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)
How Can Microsoft Project Work with SharePoint? and Display a SharePoint list on Another Site in 3 minutes (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

Give your computer insomnia [Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a machine from going to sleep!] (David Anson)
List all empty OUs (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell how-to.
What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ? (Jesse Liberty)
We want you… (Devon Musgrave) – Help make MS Press books more useful.

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #445 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2009 — #701 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for 30th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Tech Tweets for 30-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
New and Notable 375 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 (9781933988221): Arlen Feldman, Maxx Daymon: Books

ISBN: 1933988223
ISBN-13: 9781933988221

Technorati Tags: .net framework,vs2010,sharepoint,sql server,powershell,wpf,mvvm,silverlight,stack overflow,asp.net mvc

Dew Drop – August 6, 2009

Jump to: .NET/Visual Studio | Design/Methodology/Testing | Web Development | Silverlight/WPF | Podcasts/Screencasts/Videos | Community/Events | Database | SharePoint | Windows 7 | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

An introduction to UI Automation – with spooky spirographs (Samuel Jack)
Entity Framework – N-Tier Application Patterns (Dan Simmons)
Polymorphism in WCF (Mebyon Kernow)
Different VS experinces and VS10 minimal theme (Andrew Stopford)
NH Prof New Feature: Capturing DDL (Oren Eini)
A Genius Called Rooney (Daniel Waldschmidt)
What is .NET’s Object.GetHashCode() Used For? (Dave M. Bush)
Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1 (Kati Iceva)
Late-Bound Invocations with DynamicMethod (Jimmy Bogard)
Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger and Visualize project dependencies with the Team System 2010 Architecture Explorer (Habib Heydarian)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Mythical Man Month revisited, again (Andy Singleton)
Let the fighting commence! and Do you need a framework? (Oren Eini)
Modularity Patterns (Kirk Knoernschild)
Bear Shaving (Mark Needham)
Book Club: Hexagonal Architecture (Alistair Cockburn) (Mark Needham)
Functional Refactoring and "You Can’t Get There From Here" (Michael Feathers)
Working Software or Customer Value (Mike Cottmeyer)
Refactoring Day 5 : Pull Up Field (Sean Chambers)
Increasing Functional Test Coverage With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
How To Get Started With Kanban In Software Development (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day

Web Development

TextMate Theme For Aptana RadRails (Rob Conery)
Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon (Simone Chiaretta)
Get early access to ASP.NET AJAX in Action, Second Edition (Dave Ward)
Getting Up and Running with Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
PHP versus ASP.NET – Windows versus Linux – Who’s the fastest ? (Joe Stagner)

Silverlight / WPF

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Brad Abrams)
Text Trimming Control (Frank La Vigne)
The power of "States" in Blend 3 (Jose Fajardo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Nate Kohari on the Zen of Project Management! (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV: Peter Provost on what’s coming for Architects in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (MS Podcasts)
Stack Overflow Podcast #64 (Jeff Atwood)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #133: Learning how to Read & Write to the windows registry (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

StackOverflow DevDays 2009 (Alex Thissen)
PDC09 – What are you waiting for??? (Frank Arrigo)
PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)

Database

Do you need to index very small table? (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – Get Time in Hour:Minute Format from a Datetime – Get Date Part Only from Datetime (Pinal Dave)
Working with Excel to match data 101 (Ted Krueger)
Rounding to the nearest 0.5 (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

Keep your SharePoint site definitions minimal, really I mean it. (Joris Poelmans)

Windows 7

Microsoft’s Releases "Windows XP Mode" & "Windows Virtual PC" for Windows 7 RC (Blake Handler)
How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
Version Checking (Just Don’t Do It) (Yochay Kiriaty)

Miscellaneous

How Visual Thinking Can Aid in the Learning Process (Kelsey Allen)
Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #406 (Chris Alcock)
Community Convergence LII (Charlie Calvert)
Silverlight Cream for August 05, 2009 — #663 (Dave Campbell)
New and Notable 351 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for 5th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Everyman Links for August 5, 2009 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET AJAX in Action (9781933988146): Alessandro Gallo, David Barkol, Rama Vavilala, Scott Guthrie, Bertrand Le Roy: Books

ISBN: 1933988142
ISBN-13: 9781933988146

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Dew Drop – June 4, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

bistro f# extensions go beta! and move to codeplex… (Alex Pedenko)
Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit and Microsoft Sync Framework (MS Downloads)
NHibernate – Beware of inadvisably applied caching strategies (Oren Eini)
How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ and How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? (Peter Kellner)
Quadrant Tutorials (Sam Gentile)
A Great Buried Sample in Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Dynamic Data Futures (Stephen Naughton)
Fix For WCF NetMsmqBinding Not Picking Up Messages in Queue (Keith Elder)
LINQ to XSD on CodePlex (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
Axum – Ping Pong with Ordered Interaction Points (Matthew Podwysocki)
Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 2 (Jason Meridth)
Hunt the Class (James Hart)
CodeDom vs T4: two approaches to Code Generation (David Ebbo)

Web Development

Tip #73: Did you know… about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta (Deepak Verma)
A Slightly Closer Look at Sueetie List Controls (Dave Burke)
IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (Scott Guthrie)
Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
.NET 2.0 ActiveX Control Gotchas (Safe for Scripting and Hooking into Events) (Rick Minerich)
HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
Programming SEO – Cross Linking (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

Resx and BAML Resources in WPF (Rick Strahl)
“Because XAML is so darn fun to say. Zaml.” (Rob Relyea)
Using the MVVM Toolkit in VS2010 (Rudi Grobler) – Link of the Day
Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta available and Silverlight Spy 3 (Koen Zwikstra)
Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings (Karl Shifflett)
WPF: Pong (Mike Taulty)
Silverlight3 PlaneProjection Primer (Jaime Rodriguez)
Blend Artboard Exceptions and Loaded Event (Andy Beaulieu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Fighting technical debt with the wall of pain (Jimmy Bogard)
The Five Traits of Agile Projects (Brad Appleton)
How Can This Test Fail? (Davy Brion)
UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 0 (Rob Reynolds)
Catching Up On Lean (K. Scott Allen)
PDF Output With yUML, And Other Things… (Tobin Harris)
KARVONITE: AGILE PERSISTENCE FRAMEWORK (Pedro Daniel Güida)
TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Jamie Cansdale)
Observing And Understanding Builders – Part 5 (Rajiv Popat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Tour the homepages of your favorite celebrities (Marissa Mayer)
Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Adam Kinney)
Toolshed Episode 2: It’s All About the Tools (Bob Familiar)
Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 – Side-by-Side In-Process – What. How. Why. (Charles Torre)
Radio TFS 21: The Beta 1 Show (Radio TFS)
Conversation with Steven Bristol (Corey Haines)
Management lessons from the financial crisis: A conversation with Lowell Bryan and Richard Rumelt (Mike Walker)
Stack Overflow Podcast #56 (Jeff Atwood)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #115: Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
Oren Melzer on what’s new in Windows CardSpace Geneva beta 2 (Donovan Follette)

Community / Events

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Frequently Asked Questions about the INETA Regional Speakers Bureau (Chris G. Williams)
Windows 7 Ship Dates Announced and Some Training Resources to Prepare Yourself (Dave Bost)
Another Local Silverlight Event This Month (Frank La Vigne)
Strengthening the Microsoft Ecosystem with Source Code (Harry Pierson)

Database

Insight into SQL Profiler’s history (Martin Bell)
SQL SERVER – What is Interim Table – Simple Definition of Interim Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Bing: How Useful Is Microsoft’s New Search Offering? (Darrell Etherington)
Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
Google Squared Goes Live, Formats Your Searches Into a Spreadsheet (Azadeh Ensha)
Bing vs. Google face-off, round 3 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
How to find a specific user’s profile page – #042 (Sara Ford)
Using Live Mesh and Git – the best of both worlds (Louis DeJardin)
Sharing Files With BitTorrent (Jeff Atwood)
KillCopy Speeds Up Disk Transfers and Securely Deletes Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for June 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: June 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #361 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2009 — #607 (Dave Campbell)
The Technology Post for June 3rd (Jason N. Gaylord)
CloudNews for 3rd June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Writing Effective Use Cases (Agile Software Development Series): Alistair Cockburn: Books

ISBN: 0201702258
ISBN-13: 9780201702255

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