Dew Drop – February 14, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How I’m learning F# – Writing the First Program (James Eggers)
• Getting Started with Oslo – Introducing “M” and The M Programming Language – Part 0 – Intellipad, MrEPL, VS2008 project support and Excel integration (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 3: The Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
• Test if classes are registered in unity (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Using Regular Expressions in C# vs PHP (Keith Elder)
• Book Review: Pro ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Creating reusable Entity Framework queries thanks to deferred execution (Josh Twist)
• Fun with LINQ – Find the Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 3.5 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate (0.0.14287.000) and IronPython – Release: 2.0.1 and WLW Insert Links Plugin – Release: LinkBuilder Plugin v0.1.1 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• First attempts with Gallio (Andre Loker)
• DDD: Entities and Value Objects and DDD: Where is the Code? Another Brief Interlude (Casey Charlton)
• Assertion Driven Design (ADD) (David Starr)
• Application Architecture Videos (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• The open closed principle (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding: Assertions in constructors and Encoding user entered data (Mark Needham)
• The Curious Case of Software Quality (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why We Conduct Bug Bashes (Steve Rowe)

 

Web Development

• Posting data to a REST service using C# (Derik Whittaker)
• Friday Books – Building a Web 2.0 Portal w/ ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• Video explanation of jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)
• Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers (Stephen Walther)
• AJAX History in a Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Avoid having default values in XAML to do less during Load. (Rob Relyea)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Live Events Coming to a City Near You! (David Solivan)
• Welcome to MVP TV! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• A Comprehensive Database Security Model (Ken Downs)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Reading XML File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding backups and log-related Trace Flags in SQL Server 2000/2005 and 2008 (Kimberly L. Tripp)

 

Miscellaneous

• Yet another feature in the new SilverlightShow: FAVORITES (Nikolay Raychev)
• A Failure in Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy (Chris Cyvas)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 Beta (Blake Handler)
• Data Visualization with Physics (Andy Beaulieu)
• Sample of the Week: Bricks (Vijay) – Small Basic sample.
• Being coached on Getting Things Done and My letter to Microsoft as it gets back into retail (Robert Scoble)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Fun with Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Real Ultimate Programming Power (Jeff Atwood)
• Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7 (Worachai Chaoweeraprasit)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube (Paul Miller)
• Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft readies Zune service for non-Zune devices, Marketplace appears in WinMo 6.5 screenshot (Thomas Ricker)
• Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century (Scott Mitchell)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 13, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 12, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2009 — #516 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• WPF/XAML News – 2009/02/13 (Rob Relyea)
• Discoveries This Week 02/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 11 (Denis Gobo)

 

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