Dew Drop – January 28, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Design Tests for Failure (Mark Needham)
• House of Cards Design Anti-Pattern (Peter Ritchie)
• Points for Stories and the Perplexing Nature of Estimating Software and Practical Agile Is Not Just Notecards, Flowers, and Fairies (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The Significance of Code Reviews (Michael Ceranski)
• First Steps Toward Test Driven Design/Development (Muhammad Mosa)
• Manage Your Projects… Not Just Your Schedule (Part 3) (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Importing and Exporting Custom Toolboxes in Visual Studio 2008 (Pete Brown)
• Digital Version of Programming Entity Framework Is Live! (Julie Lerman)
• New Managed Extensibility Framework Drop (David Kean)
• .NET Circuit Breakers (Tobin Harris)
• The VSTA Layer Diagram and the p&p App Arch Guide 2.0 (Clemens Reijnen)
• The 10 Second Visual Studio Makeover (Russell Ball)
• Top Visual Studio Add-Ins (David Ridgway)
• Annotating Code with .NET Reflector and Review Add-In (Ben Hall)
• .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Reliable Sessions Made Simple with WCF (Steve Stefanovich)
• Tales From High Memory Scenarios: Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Styling a Silverlight Chart (Rudi Grobler)
• XamlScenario: Determining If a XAML Document Is a "WPF" XAML Document (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #88 – How to Handle Image AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR Errors and #89 – How to Use String Resources (Mike Snow)
• Managing Social Data in Silverlight: Do You Push or Pull? (Daniel Crenna)
• *chirp: A WPF Client for Twitter (at last) (Steve Clayton)

 

Web Development

• Windows Live Messenger IM Control Module for Drupal CMS (Jared Preston)
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Error Pages (Barry Dahlberg)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate and Controls Collection Cannot Be Modified Issue with ASP.NET MVC RC1 (Phil Haack)
• Where Does ASP.NET Belong? And What ASP.NET Should I Use? (Chris Love)
• Reformat Your CSS on the Fly (Martin Hinshelwood)
• A Guide to Learning ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• What’s New for MVC Tools in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (Abhishek Mishra)
• ASP.NET MVC Options for Consolidating HTML (Jimmy Bogard)
• Making Individual Tables Read Only – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)

 

.NET Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina (Me) – Q&A with Brad & Krys and an excerpt from chapter 9 of their book, Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition, available to download.

 

PowerShell

• Rename-Drive : Renaming Drives with PowerShell & WMI (James Brundage)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Generate a Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table – Very Interesting Question from Reader (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Enterprise Services Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 4 (Sam Gentile)
• A Fresh Thought for the Movie/TV Studios (Jeff Blankenburg)
• My List of Useful Mac Software (Bobby Johnson)
• Will Your Games Run on Windows 7? (Loyd Case)
• Applying for a Second Position After Having Been Declined Previously (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• New in Labs: Offline Gmail (Andy Palay)
• Windows 2008 R2 Features Part 1: Offline Domain Join (Parzival)
• Showcasing Windows 7 Platform with Applets (Riyaz Pishori and team)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 284 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #104 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for January 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for January 27th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 15 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Squeezed Links: January 2009 (Max Pool)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2009 – 2 — #499 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #274 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day