Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – March 21-22, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3: Activity Control (Brad Abrams)
• Getting Started with Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control SDK CTP and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery and Virtual Earth Silverlight: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity (Tim Heuer)
• WPFToolkit March 2009 Release and new WPF Themes! (Vincent Sibal)
• Concerns about RIA Services Squashed (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight Control – Register Now (Simon Sabin)
• ICommand is like a chocolate cake (Mike Hillberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delay All Your Decisions (Casey Charlton)
• Friday Books – Architecting Applications… (Dave M. Bush)
• Recomposition and constructors (Glenn Block)
• Progressive Interfaces (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Architecture By Baseball: Spring Training (Larry Clarkin)
• Lean Thinking: Book Review and Reassessing What the Debugger Is For (Mark Needham)
• When "Process" stops working for you …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Essential LINQ Published (Charlie Calvert)
• Why doesn’t MEF support open-generics for exports? Because MEF is not type based. (Glenn Block)
• ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• IronRuby 0.3 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Twitter API – Submit a post in C# (Wally McClure)
• Book review: C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming (Tamir Khason)
• Be Careful With the var Keyword and Expression Builders (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: A Little Hack…err…Cleanup (Harry Pierson)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping CLR Types (Phani Raj)
• Talking Point: to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (CTP1) (Joel Reyes)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Link Repository (Dave Schinkel)
• Sueetie Week in Review for March 21, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale and More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)
• New Live Framework Samples (Kevin Ledley)
• MSDN Magazine Series: From Web Dev to RIA Dev (James Kovacs)
• MUrl – a DSL and runtime for exercising HTTP (Jon Flanders)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (2 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• It used to be “write once – deploy anywhere” (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Community / Events

• Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted (Brad Abrams)
• MIX09 Day 4 and MIX09 Last Day and redux (Dave Campbell)
• MiX09 personal note.. (Jay Kimble)
• Speaking at ASP.NET Connections Next Week (Stephen Walther)
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File (Scott Hanselman)
• My Mini-Session at MIX09 (Eclipse and Silverlight) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• UK MVPs Present at the UK’s Biggest Event For Software Developers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Photo Essay of Mix09 (Jesse Liberty)
• My MIX09 Silverlight 3 ShowOff Video – Commodore 64 Emulator (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Live from MIX09 – Silverlight 3, IE 8, SuperPreview and SketchFlow (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #46 (Jeff Atwood)
• Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads – Advance Performance Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Fragmentation (Jose Barreto)
• SQL Mesh March 09 update (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Cleaning up your WebPart Gallery (Greg Galipeau)
• IE 8.0 Quick Observation for SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• 10 New SharePoint Themes. (Stephen Cummins)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Software & Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google Tests Enhanced Suggestions for IE8 (Alex Chitu)
• Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (Ed Bott)
• Two more Microsoft Press books RTM’d today (Devon Musgrave)
• My First IE8 Encounter (Keith Elder)
• Git/Github survival guide (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Live Writer Backup Released (Scott)
• Specialization in Recruiting in Hard Times (Scott Bellware)
• Yet another Scam: Blog Ripping (Rick Strahl)
• Survey for Canvas for OneNote (Nathan)
• Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) (Matt Uyttendaele)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Window Switchers and Previews In Depth (Sasha Goldshtein)
• RTM Platform Changes (Kris Krueger)
• Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities [Lifehacker Top 10] (Kevin Purdy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 15 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.20~03.22 (yuanjian)
• Some great DSL reading (Jeremy D. Miller)
• New and Notable 306 (Sam Gentile)

 

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