Dew Drop – September 16, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambdas – Know Your Closures (Jason Olson)
• Creating an Options Page for the Clipboard History, Our DXCore/Visual Studio Plug-In (Mark Miller)
• How to Search and Drag-Drop Nodes in a TreeView Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F# for Game Development: Tutorial 7: Concurrency (Joh)
• Bindable LINQ: Threading (Paul Stovell)
• XAML Power Toys v2 Released (Finally) Code Name: Hawaii (Karl Shifflett)
• IronSmalltalk – Release: v0.1 (CodePlex)
• StyleCop Plugin for ReSharper – Release: v0.0.14136 (CodePlex)
• Caching and the SRP (Andrew Stopford)

 

Web Development

• Slow Performance of a GridView Inside an UpdatePanel (Tom)
• Basic Customizations of the DataGrid (Martin Mihaylov)
• Getting Tweets From Twitter Without the API (Jeff Paries)
• ASP.NET MVC Controller Action Security Hole (Troy Goode)
• Lullaby 1.0 Beta 2 Released (Ryan Olshan)
• Improved Mouse Wheel Support for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ScrollViewer (Adam J. Cooper)
• Hanselminutes Podcasts 128 and 129 – Ajax with Scott Cate and JavaScript with Bertrand Le Roy (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order (Adam Nathan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All Paths From A to B (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Reflection – Iteration 5 (Sara J. Chipps)
• SDEdit – Free Sequence Diagram Editor (Shahar Yair)
• patterns & practices Performance Engineering (J.D. Meier)
• That Architecture Thing (Evan Hoff)
• Get That Sketchy Look in Your GUI Mockups and Why Are Paper Sketches So Cool? (Tobin Harris)
• Is Distributed Development Viable (Jay Fields)

 

SharePoint

• Examining the Out of the Box Master Pages in SharePoint (Greg Galipeau)

 

Database

• SSIS: Create Analysis Services Partitions From a SSIS Package (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers – Part 5 (Pinal Dave)
• Official SQL Server 2008 Wallpaper and Screensaver (Taimur Asad)
• FIX for A MERGE Statement May Not Enforce a Foreign Key Constraint When the Statement Updates a Unique Key Column That Is Not Part of a Clustering Key Bug (Denis Gobo)

 

Events / Community / Blogging

• Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008) (Jurgen Appelo)
• What Makes Great Content? (J.D. Meier)
• My Life Is a Blur of Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools (Aliza Sherman)
• Events This Week – September 15th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• StackOverflow at PDC (Phil Haack)
• ALT.NET, a Year or So Later From an Observer and Occasional Participant (Chad Myers)
• Desire Is the Name (Adam Kinney)
• WordPress Developer’s Toolbox (Steven Snell)
• Stack Overflow: None of Us Is as Dumb as All of Us (Jeff Atwood)

 

Miscellaneous

• Interview: Microsoft CIO Tony Scott (Ina Fried)
• 360Desktop Now in Beta (Sarah Perez)
• Nice Laptop for a Developer Running Windows Workstation 2008 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Front Cover for Beginning ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• PureText Cleans Your Clipboard Copied Text (Scott Blitstein) – This is one of my favorite little tools. It’s very handy when working on these daily blog posts.
• What’s New for IE8 Search (Sharon Cohen)
• Is Microsoft Aiming for an Early Windows 7 Launch? (Ed Bott)
• Zune 3 Is Here! (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #179 and The Morning Brew #180 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 15, 2008 — #368 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for September 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for September 16, 2008 (Denislav Savkov)

 

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