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Dew Drop – July 31, 2009

Web Development

Microsoft Releases Software Development Kits for Bing Developers (Blake Handler)
Service Virtualization and the Managed Services Engine (MSE) (Aaron Skonnard)
Aren’t Web frameworks supposed to make programming easier? (Brian Reindel)
ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released (Phil Haack)
Oh, Fer Cryin’ Out Loud. Close the Darn Tag! (James Johnson)
ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Writing a Custom NHibernate Class Validator (Billy McCafferty)
Exception Logging with EntLib Made Simple (David Starr)
Fighting against GhostDoc abusing (Gunnar Peipman)
What’s the difference, part one: Generics are not templates (Eric Lippert)
.NET Image Scaling in CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
“Cannot find one or more components.” error when launching IronPython Studio (Jeremy Jarrell)
Customizing TFS Process Guidance (Oleg Sych)
Creating a Data Access layer using Unity (Martin Hinshelwood)
LINQ To M Refresh (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

“TODO: Refactor this…” Twice the Code Smell (Ade Miller)
Macto, defining Centralized Service, Distributed Service and Localized Component and Macto, Authorization decisions and Reviewing NerdDinner and Reviewing NerdDinner: The Select N+1 pitfall (Oren Eini)
Just Isolate It Already (Justin Etheredge)
Bringing Plausible Deniability to Development: the Strategy Pattern (David Cooksey)
Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
Zen Development Practices: Method-level IoC (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF

Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC and LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation – Demo Posted (Brad Abrams)
What’s New in the Expression Encoder 3 SDK? (Dean Rowe)
AgOpenSource Moves Forward and AgOpenSource Project Turing and Video Wiki – Status and Overview (Jesse Liberty)
Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug and Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image! (Sunshine)
Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 with Phil Haack and Virtual Scott (Scott Hanselman)
MEF and Silverlight (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
The History of Microsoft – 1999: The Series Finale! (Tina)

Community / Events

Windows 7 Incubation Week In Reston, VA (Gunther Lenz)
Developing Android Applications – A Free Live Online Workshop – Aug 5 @ 10am PT (Tony Hillerson)
NJ Tech Drinks Take 2 / Camp Camp? (Sara Chipps)

SharePoint

*** NOW AVAILABLE *** Chapter 4 from our Real World SharePoint 2007 book for free on TechNet (Andrew Connell)
Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions (Eli Robillard)

Database

Zoho Reports : Connectors for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access Databases (Clarence Fischer)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Cloud Computing (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Executing all .SQL files in a directory with Powershell (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

Vault 5.0 has shipped (Eric Sink)
Microsoft Releases Bing for Windows Mobile 6.x Devices (Blake Handler)
RTM’d today: Windows 7 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Devon Musgrave)
Coding Horror: Movable Type Since 2004 (Jeff Atwood)
Are these the first images of Google Chrome OS? (Lee Mathews)
Adding to the team (Wendy Friedlander)
9 Ways to Pump Up You, the Brand (Meryl Evans)
Hiring for new super-secret project (Bertrand LeRoy)
Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview: Hands-on Review (Will Kelly)
August’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2009 — #659 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #402 (Chris Alcock)
CloudNews for 30th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (7/30/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5 (9780596519209): Jon Flanders: Books

ISBN: 0596519206
ISBN-13: 9780596519209

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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – May 9-10, 2009

Web Development

jQuery Cheat Sheet (Matt Kruse)
ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing (Jeff Putz)
An Async Html cache – part II – Testing the cache (Luca Bolognese)
Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available (Tangible Engineering)
Fluent Validation Model Binder – ASP.NET MVC (Adam)
Override Inline CSS – I had no idea! (Dave M. Bush)
Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
My.Unity.Resolve(Of Ninja) and Unity and ASP.NET (Martin Hinshelwood)
Communicating Between FieldTemplates in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
GridView with no Inline Styles (mostly!) (Scott Galloway)
Debugging Silverlight in IE8 (on Windows 7) (Shawn Wildermuth)
Bluffer’s Guide to Accelerators, Slices and Search Providers (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 3, .Net RIA Services, and common lookup data Redux (Bob Baker)
New themes for Silverlight 2.0! (Dax Pandhi)
Using the WPF ObservableCollection with EF Entities (Beth Massi)
A Tour Through Microsoft Silverlight 3 RIA Services (Peter Bromberg)
Expression Blend 3: More on Actions, Triggers, Behaviors (Mike Taulty) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues (Tess Ferrandez)
Entity Framework – Change Track & Update Entities based on Views (Julie Lerman)
Axum Bits Have Been Released (Justin Etheredge)
Axum Hits CTP (Matthew Podwysocki)
Using LINQ to Manage File Resources and Context Menus (Michael Sorens)
Parameterised component resolution with the Windsor NamingPartsSubSystem and Multi-tenanted services with the Windsor WCF Facility (Mike Hadlow)
Type Classes Are The Secret Sauce (Matthew Podwysocki)
F#: Regular Expression/Active Patterns (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Out of process session state vs. explicit state management (Oren Eini)
The Agility Cycle – Part 3 (Brad Appleton)
Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection (Karl Seguin)
Utils and Common is Dead! (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
Mindless vs. Mindful Meetings, or “How to think before you meet” (Kyle Baley)
Builders, Story Tellers, Whiners – Part 5 (Rajiv Popat)
AutoTest.NET Changes Now in Source and UppercuT – The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework (Rob Reynolds)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #179 – BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software (Scott Hanselman)
This week on C9: Windows 7, WPF futures, and use UI testing to automate your job (Brian Keller)
Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes — Part I: Progress Bar (Gunther Lenz)
Inside Windows 7: Animation Manager Deep Dive and Tutorial and Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Overview and Windows 7 Location Platform Overview and Windows 7 Libraries Helpers (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2009 Edition (final update) (Jeffrey Palermo)
Still alive and kicking (Ken Jones)
SQL Usergroup starting in Cambridge (Simon Sabin)

Database

Disaster/Recovery for Reporting Services objects (rdl, rds etc..) (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Find Last Date Time Updated for Any Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide (MS Downloads)
How much Azure juice am I drinking? (Jamie Thomson)
Pseudocode or Code? (Jeff Atwood)
You can “fix” a CodePlex work item via a SVN Client – #031 (Sara Ford)
Micro-Benchmarking Considered Harmful and “XYZ Is Bad For Performance” (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for May 8, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #343 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #117 (Darren Stokes)
Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
CloudNews for May 8th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 319 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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

ISBN: 1933988622
ISBN-13: 9781933988627

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Dew Drop – February 14, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

How I’m learning F# – Writing the First Program (James Eggers)
Getting Started with Oslo – Introducing “M” and The M Programming Language – Part 0 – Intellipad, MrEPL, VS2008 project support and Excel integration (Bart de Smet)
Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 3: The Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
Test if classes are registered in unity (Erwin Van Der Valk)
Using Regular Expressions in C# vs PHP (Keith Elder)
Book Review: Pro ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
Creating reusable Entity Framework queries thanks to deferred execution (Josh Twist)
Fun with LINQ – Find the Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 3.5 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate (0.0.14287.000) and IronPython – Release: 2.0.1 and WLW Insert Links Plugin – Release: LinkBuilder Plugin v0.1.1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

First attempts with Gallio (Andre Loker)
DDD: Entities and Value Objects and DDD: Where is the Code? Another Brief Interlude (Casey Charlton)
Assertion Driven Design (ADD) (David Starr)
Application Architecture Videos (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
The open closed principle (Gabriel N. Schenker)
Coding: Assertions in constructors and Encoding user entered data (Mark Needham)
The Curious Case of Software Quality (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Why We Conduct Bug Bashes (Steve Rowe)

Web Development

Posting data to a REST service using C# (Derik Whittaker)
Friday Books – Building a Web 2.0 Portal w/ ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
Video explanation of jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)
Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers (Stephen Walther)
AJAX History in a Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

Silverlight / WPF

Avoid having default values in XAML to do less during Load. (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

MSDN Live Events Coming to a City Near You! (David Solivan)
Welcome to MVP TV! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

A Comprehensive Database Security Model (Ken Downs)
SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Reading XML File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
Understanding backups and log-related Trace Flags in SQL Server 2000/2005 and 2008 (Kimberly L. Tripp)

Miscellaneous

Yet another feature in the new SilverlightShow: FAVORITES (Nikolay Raychev)
A Failure in Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy (Chris Cyvas)
Microsoft Releases Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 Beta (Blake Handler)
Data Visualization with Physics (Andy Beaulieu)
Sample of the Week: Bricks (Vijay) – Small Basic sample.
Being coached on Getting Things Done and My letter to Microsoft as it gets back into retail (Robert Scoble)
Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Fun with Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
Real Ultimate Programming Power (Jeff Atwood)
Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7 (Worachai Chaoweeraprasit)
Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube (Paul Miller)
Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor (Simone Chiaretta)
Microsoft readies Zune service for non-Zune devices, Marketplace appears in WinMo 6.5 screenshot (Thomas Ricker)
Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 13, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – February 12, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2009 — #516 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: February 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
WPF/XAML News – 2009/02/13 (Rob Relyea)
Discoveries This Week 02/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for February 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 11 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books

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