Dew Drop – January 23, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make ‘Read-Only’ Fields Less Readable (Leon Bambrick)
• Refactoring: Introduce Constant (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning StructureMap Through Tiny Goals (Chris Missal)
• My Thoughts About IRepository (Laila Bougria)
• Repositories and IQueryable, the Paging Case (Jérémie)
• p&p – Web Service with REST Application Pattern (Colin Jack)
• More About Test Case Reuse (James Whittaker)
• Code Noise Part 2! (David Yancey)
• Leadership 101: Build Broad Shoulders (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• EntityObject Class Constructors (Julie Lerman)
• Multiple Outputs from T4 Made Easy (Damien Guard)
• Reading Declarations (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The Time Has Come – Your Win32 Application Will Change (Michael Chourdakis)
• Many-to-One Mapping with Composite-ID’s with FluentNHibernate and DimeCasts .NET #79 – Learning How to Use the XML Serializer (Derik Whittaker)
• Using the Kinetic Framework with a Non-Table-Based Entity (Joel Ross)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 147 – The New WPF-Based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 – Interview with a Dev (Scott Hanselman)
• AutoMapper – The Object-Object Mapper (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Web Development

• Matthew MacDonald’s Hot List of Useful Web Sites (Sara Peyton)
• jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET and Friday Books – Teach Yourself ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing Azure Issue Tracker Sample Application (Joe Stagner)
• Do Not Blame ASP.NET WebForms (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Method for Retrieving Movie Posters and ASP.NET Application Lockdown on IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• New Release of the SmartTools for SharePoint Project (Jan Tielens)
• Firebug Rocks for CSS Manipulation (Jason Grundy)
• Speed Up Your JavaScript with Memoization and Queueing (Dion Almaer)
• Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders Under Views (Billy McCafferty)
• Redirecting with the Click of a Button (Scott Mitchell)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Video: Learning CRUD and Data Forms in Silverlight 2 – Episode 1 and Episode 2 and Episode 3 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Control Creation (or Why Silverlight Needs a Blink Control) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #86 – How to Load External Images (Mike Snow)
• WPF Wonders: Properties and Events (Rod Stephens)
• My First Silverlight Part 3 – Create the Silverlight Web Part (Ton Stegeman)

 

.NET Community / Events

• CodeMash Wrapup (John Stockton)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2005,2008 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Welcome to Windows 7 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Others Lay Off Tons (Robert Scoble) – Best of luck to all those impacted by these cuts.
• WHS v2 and Power Pack 2 Announced (Michael Ceranski)
• Unlock Hidden Themes in Windows 7 and It’s a Windows 7 Love Fest (Sarah Perez)
• How to Remove Windows 7 Send Feedback, Watermark Text (Brad Linder)
• Tips on Upgrading from VSS to Subversion (Russell Ball)
• Microsoft to Release IE8 RC1 Next Week (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft Hiring Update (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Tips for Being More Productive (Dan Wahlin)
• Open Source Software, Self Service Software (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft to Merge Windows Live and Office Live (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #102 and Visual Studio Links #103 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 — #492 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 2 — #493 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 3 — #494 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2009 – 4 — #495 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for January 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (1/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #271 (Chris Alcock)

 

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