Tag: windows azure

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Comparative Values (Martin Fowler)
• Violating CQS. Looking For Suggestions And Alternatives. (Derick Bailey)
• Now that I use the Delete Key… (Chris Missal)
• Unit Testing is Not a “Figure It Out Later” (Dave Schinkel) – Link of the Day
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 1) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Three Levels of Control (Example) (Jurgen Appelo)
• A different shade of rose, or “How to…actually, I’m not up for subtitling this one” (Kyle Baley)
• The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate (4 reasons why). (Leon Bambrick)
• Best Practices for Handling Change in Your WCF Applications (Steve Stefanovich)
• Agile Architecture Up Front (ADUF) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 6 (Rajiv Popat)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WF 4 Migration Guidance (MS Downloads)
• Pkgdef and the Experimental Instance in VS 2010 (Aaron Marten)
• NHibernate – Get Thou Out Of My Database (Oren Eini)
• VS2010 & .NET 4 Beta Resources (forums, docs, etc.) and LINQ to SQL in VS2010/.NET 4 (Julie Lerman)
• Extending your existing API or legacy data classes to support LINQ (Mehfuz Hossain)
• MSDN Updates – and RFC for you (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Basic Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Setup For Visual Studio 2010 (Ben Byrd)
• Tip #74: Did you know…How to Add and Remove AJAX Extenders in Visual Studio 2008 Designer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• A T4 based approach to creating ASP.NET MVC strongly typed helpers (David Ebbo)
• IIS SEO Toolkit: Site analysis overview (illustrated) (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using Frames in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)
• web related graphics and animation generators online (Roy Osherove)
• Don’t use LocalHost when Developing for SharePoint (Robert L. Bogue)
• Using Request inside Actions: why it is a bad idea (Simone Chiaretta)
• Why is ASP.NET encoding &’s in script URLs? A tale of looking at entirely the wrong place for a cause to a non-existing bug. (Bertrand Le Roy)

Silverlight / WPF

• BSDG – PRISM/MVVM for WPF Presentation Sample Code (Brian Lagunas)
• Exploring WPF Toolkit’s DataGrid with F# (John Liao)
• Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3 (Tim Heuer)
• Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10 (Xinyang Qiu)
• TechNet Launches New Interactive Silverlight Application for STSADM Technical Reference (SharePoint Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Raja Krishnaswamy and Vance Morrison: CLR 4 – Inside Type Equivalence (Charles Torre)
• TDD, DI, and SoC with ASP.NET MVC (Screencast) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Recording of Udi Dahan on SOA @ E-VAN 01 June 2009 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Episode 72 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alex Riedel talks PrimalForms (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 137: SQL with Jim Melton (SE-Radio Team)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 2: Countdown Calendar (Jennifer Marsman)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight: N-Tier Data Access video available (Rockford Lhotka)

Database

• Declarative Database Development (Gert Drapers)
• Writing reports off third party databases the easy way and Why does my variable always have NULL in it? (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Hotfix and Service Pack (Pinal Dave)
• Sample Code for Batch Transactions in Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• Queues in Windows Azure Storage (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress 2.8 coming soon, WordPress MU to be phased out (Brad Linder)
• Friday Books – Twitter Power (Dave M. Bush)
• Will the Windows 7 price be right? (Ed Bott)
• Building your own Arcade Cabinet for Geeks – Part 1 – The Cabinet and Part 2 – The Monitor and Part 3 – Control Panel and Part 4 – Sound and Lights and Part 5 – Paint and Art and Part 6 – Computer Hardware and Software and Part 7 – Success and Conclusion (Scott Hanselman)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 5 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Spelling, Code Blocks and Twitter on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• MS Office Going Free, Online, and Ad-supported Next Year? (John Biggs)
• Windows Azure Developer Contest – Win Fame and Fortune (literally)! (Jennifer Marsman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (Cameron Skinner)

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