Dew Drop – July 9, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
• DimeCast #20 – Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
• A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
• Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates – Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
• Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
• Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
• Design Patterns – A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
• Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
• Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip of the Day #15 – Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
• Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 – Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
• Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
• SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
• User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

 

SharePoint

• Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Branding SharePoint – Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components – Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

 

SQL Server

• Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
• 3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
• Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

 

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