Dew Drop – March 24, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Boss Launch Beta (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight RPG: Steel Saga (Avi Pilosof)
• Silverlight 3 Beta – Downloads You May Have Missed (Bart Czernicki)
• Compile your XNA 2D games to run in Silverlight with SilverSprite (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight, XAML & Prism: Diving in Head First at the Shallow End of the Pool (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating Sound Using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta and Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3 (Pete Brown)
• Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta Applications on the Same Machine (Jeff Wilcox) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight sans Xaml (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK 0.5 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Silverlight 3 Beta install experience for users (Tim Heuer)
• Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight 3: Array Helper (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Spy update for SL3 and IE8 (Koen Zwikstra)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internationalization – Resource Files (Dave M. Bush)
• IronRuby 0.3 (Harry Pierson)
• HowTo: Setup IIS7 as development server in Visual Studio 2008 (Robert Muehsig)
• More reminders / gotchas from the trenches with Azure (Wally McClure)
• Lego 3d Scanner (Coding4Fun)
• A Few SQL Server CE and Entity Framework Gotchas (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• jQuery – Auto Scrolling the Slider (Dave M. Bush)
• Hotfix for "Design view does not update HTML" and to "Designer inserts a lot of  " (Mikhail)
• ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Development Overview & Dynamic Data (Scott Hunter)
• ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do (Simone Chiaretta)
• One tool to test them all: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Peter Eysermans)
• Why Internet Explorer 8 disappoints web developers (Paul Thurrott)
• IE8 Built-in Developer Tools (Marcelo)
• New CodePlex project: MvcSiteMap – ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider (Maarten Balliauw)
• Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery (Justin)
• Virtual Earth 101 (Jim Duffy)
• Cascading or Dependant Field Templates for ASP.Net 4.0 Preview (Steve Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Emergence Of Knowledge In Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Over Communication is the Best Strategy for Organizational Change (Mark Schneider)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth (Carl Franklin)
• Q&A with Scott Guthrie at MIX09 and Q&A with Bill Buxton at MIX09 and Q&A with Dean Hachamovitch at MIX09 (Dan Fernandez)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #95: Building a Progressive Fluent Interface (Derik Whittaker)
• My podcast list (Larry Clarkin)
• Episode 63 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Holger Schwichtenberg (Me)
• MIX 09 Roundup: 8 Sessions on Live Services Available Now (Angus Logan)
• Upcoming MSDN Unleashed Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Watch the Oslo Mix ’09 Talk: Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" (Chris Sells)
• What happens at Mix, gets exposed to everyone (Corey Miller)
• DC ALT.NET 3/25 – Introduction to TDD (Matthew Podwysocki)
• CodeStock 2009 Call for Speakers (Elijah Manor)
• Photos from MIX09 Part 3 (Frank La Vigne)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – Behind The Scenes! and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Microsoft MIX 2009 Wrap-Up (Justin Etheredge)
• Events This Week – March 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Client Design and SQL Server 2008 XML Indexing (Jose Barreto)
• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part I (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• Using return types as parameters in T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Working with Structured Data in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part2): Exposing LOB Data (Reza Alirezaei)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 on deck (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Documentation for Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and Microsoft Releases Official "First Look" Windows 7 Training Courses (Blake Handler)
• Windows Home Serve available on MSDN (David Vidmar)
• Improving upon vanilla virtualization with cloud computing (Dan Shookowsky)
• Reaching For The Clouds (Jason Ipock)
• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Three: Homoiconic (Eric Lippert)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers (Spence Harbar)
• Getting syntax highlighting for your powershell scripts (take 2) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources (Brandon Paddock, Scott Dart & Alwin Vyhmeister)
• RE: IE8 Beta Feedback (Allison Burnett)
• A Brief Collection of Convenient Lies About Functional Programming (Michael Feathers)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #313 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 — #546 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 2 — #547 and Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 – 3 — #548 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 307 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day