Dew Drop – March 23, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Evening with Fluent NHibernate (Howard Dierking) – Link of the Day
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt.5 (Ian Cooper)
• Live fx Helper Class – extra methods : Live Framework (Jamie Thomson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.1 (CodePlex)
• M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Media 2 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight 3 Release Date (RTW) Surprise (Bart Czernicki)
• New official Silverlight Blog (Brian Goldfarb)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video training series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dragging has NEVER been so easy (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity and Silverlight 3: Navigation URI Routing (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Using the new Silverlight 3 Perspective tools to emulate 3D (Jeff)
• WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie User Avatars (Dave Burke)
• Internet Explorer Global Variable Blow ups (Rick Strahl)
• Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Why I don’t use OpenWeb() (Gary Lapointe)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Great Managers Have No Secrets (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test Review #3 – Unity (Roy Osherove)
• To Inject Or Not To Inject (Justin Etheredge)
• The Successor Value Pattern (Michael Feathers)
• Coding: Making the debugger redundant (Mark Needham)

 

Community / Events

• Sexiest Bachelor Developer Results!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• MIX Slides, Code, and Session Recording (Stephen Walther)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – The Missing Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Thirsty Developer 56: Quick Basic Gorillas (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1981 (Tina)

 

Database

• Differentiating between environments within SQL Server Management Studio (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #312 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2009 — #545 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #76 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: March 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 86 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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