Dew Drop – February 18, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Very slick, but is it just me? (Andrew Connell)
• The M Programming Language – Part 2 – Collections and Extents (Bart de Smet)
• References are not addresses (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Easy embed workflow in your application (Juliën Hanssens)
• Implement LINQ to Objects in C# 2.0 (Jérémie)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part III: Transforming MGraph to TSQL (Stephen Forte)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – February 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Prism v2 now supports WPF and Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash (Tamir Khason)
• NEWS: Prism 2.0 is Live (Joel Reyes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A response to Validation in a DDD world (Billy McCafferty)
• DDD: Services (Casey Charlton)
• Adapting to the situation (Larry Clarkin)
• Great User Interfaces, Clarity, and Information in Parallel (Mark Miller)

 

Web Development

• Installing the ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant on Windows Vista (ranganh)
• Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery UI – Resizable w/ ASP.NET Themes (Dave M. Bush)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 1 (Javier G. Lozano)
• Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• Calling JavaScript from ASP.NET Master Page and Content Pages – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Polymorphism with JavaScript (John Teague)
• IronRuby ASP.NET MVC With Filters (Phil Haack)
• JetBrains RubyMine provides navigation and refactoring for Javascript (Jeffrey Palermo)
• IIS7 Load Balancing & Routing Module Now Available! (Omar Khan)

 

Community / Events

• Slide Decks from the Harrisburg, PA MSDN Freedom Roadshow (David Solivan)
• Pex Europe Tour March’09 (Jonathan de Halleux)
• TechEd North America 2009 (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – February 17th, 2009 and Community Megaphone and UGSS (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

PowerShell

• Scriptable SSH from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

 

SQL Server

• SQL Server Distance Calculation Option 3 – Using the CLR (Alex Ullrich)

 

Miscellaneous

• Does Microsoft already have a Windows 7 release candidate? (Lee Mathews)
• Nerds Show Us How to Count Binary on Our Fingers (John Baichtal)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: The New Influencers (Dave Burke)
• Change Your Windows 7 Media Center Background (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Fader 2 released (David Vidmar)
• Books I Think Everyone Should Read (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: February 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2009 — #520 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #16 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #289 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for February 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day