Dew Drop – November 26, 2008

 

The Dew Drop is taking a day off tomorrow. We’ll be back on Friday with fresh links.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Processes in .NET Part 1 – Launching Processes and Managing the Scheduler (Rick Minerich)
• MEF Refactored, Preview 3 Has Shipped (Glenn Block)
• Isolation Syntax for VB.NET – Your Comments Please (Roy Osherove)
• Generating Temporary Files (Richard Carr)
• Working with Large Models in Entity Framework – Part 2 (Srikanth Mandadi)
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR – RTM (Gert Drapers) – Link of the Day
• MSBuild Extension Pack – Release: v3.5.1.0 Beta (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/> (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC – Using Extension Method to Add Validation Application Block Errors to Controller’s ModelState (David Hayden)
• Web Platform Installer (Van Kichline)
• Paging Through <li> Items Using jQuery (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Azure Worker Role to Deal with Spam (Steve Marx)
• Getting Started with the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Control (Dan Wahlin)
• Chart Love (Sacha Barber)
• Access an AJAX-Enabled WCF Service Using ASP.NET and Client Script (Suprotim Agarwal)
• An Audio Visual Tour of the Mesh Developer Experience (Jamie Thomson)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF ScrollViewer Thumbnail (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #72 – How to Call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs and #73 – Threading in Silverlight and #74 – Monitoring for App.Current Events – Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit (Mike Snow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two New Great Architecture Webcasts (Angela Binkowski)
• 10 Ways to Programmatically Shoot Yourself in the Foot – Part B (Shahar Yair)
• Testing WPF Apps Using NUnit (Lester)
• Composing Code Metrics Values (Patrick Smacchia)
• Fluent Route Testing in ASP.NET MVC (Ben Scheirman)
• Who Should Be the Scrum Master? (Ade Miller)
• How to Add a Test Run Configuration to Test Project with Visual Studio 2008 (Simone Chiaretta)

 

SharePoint

• Reporting on MOSS Data (Vishwas Lele)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide Available for Download (Denis Gobo)

 

Career

• Poor Promotion Prospects for Testers? (Dirty MS Laundry) (James Whittaker)

 

Hanselminutes Podcasts (Scott Hanselman)

• 135 – StackOverflow Behind the Music – Unedited Outtakes Show
• 136 – MSR@PDC – Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference
• 137 – Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell
• 138 – Paint.NET with Rick Brewster

 

Miscellaneous

• Janke’s Official 2009 Technology Predictions (Michael Janke)
• Get Windows 7’s Best Features Right Now (Gina Trapani)
• Is Email = Efail? (Jeff Atwood)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Select-Object (Note Properties) vs Add-Member (Script Properties) (James Brundage)
• Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode (Steven Levy)
• Move Over, Ajax. Here Comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’ (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Squeezed Links: November 2009 (Max Pool)
• Tech Twitterings #5 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: November 25, 2008 and Interesting Finds: November 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for November 25, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #231 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 26, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• CloudNews for November 25th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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