Dew Drop – March 31, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

• Book Plug: Essential LINQ (Brad Abrams)
• TeamReview 1.0.9 is now available (Charles Sterling)
• MassTransit 0.6 Release Candidate (Chris Patterson)
• Avoiding MySQL’s MAX_JOIN_SIZE Limit With NHibernate and Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate? (Davy Brion)
• WinForms – Change The Active Tab (Dave M. Bush)
• Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Problem when testing LINQ To SQL Classes objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using SVN’s latest revision in your TeamCity build (Louis Salin)
• Using NHibernate with multiple databases (Karl Sequin)
• The cost of eager loading in Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Heisenberg And Lambdas (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Tip : Nest Another Grid Inside LayoutRoot for Flexibility (Pete Brown)
• The Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework (Martin Mihaylov)
• ViewModels in MVVM: CLR objects vs. DependencyObjects (Lester Lobo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework and ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)
• Kill Your Darlings (Jay Fields)
• Presentation Tier Cheat-Sheet (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Seizing the BDD Nettle (Ian Cooper)
• Evolving code over time (Peter Ritchie)
• Pictorial Instructions (Larry Clarkin)
• Every Problem Looks Like A Nail (Eric Lippert)
• Your [type of framework / tool] Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application (Derick Bailey)
• What’s the difference between a message and an event (Dru Sellers)
• Putting the M in MVC – Part I (K. Scott Allen)
• Pair Programming: Slowly but Surely (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Experimenting with jQuery Draggables and ASP.NET (Mike)
• Some ASP.NET compiler black magic (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tip #48 Did you know… that IIS7 application pool’s “Ping” settings may affect IIS7 based website or application debugging? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Tip #49 Did you know… how to set the editor to always place open braces on new line for functions in JScript? (Deepak Verma)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A look into the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• ARCast.TV – Improving User Experience in Digital Signage Solutions with Silverlight (Bob Familiar)
• Road Thoughts – Just Do It (Corey Haines)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Processing Message Content using HttpClient class (Cliff Simpkins)
• DDDD: Eric Evans Interviews Greg Young (Jonathan Oliver)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #97: Another look at Sharp Architecture: Validation, Design Decisions and Automapping (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day

Community / Events

• MIX09 Recap Series Part 1, Favorite Features & Announcements and Part 2, What About WPF and Part 3, The Microsoft Client Continuum (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Events This Week – March 30th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at Philly Code Camp 2009.1 (Nick Berardi)
• Mini Microsoft shows up on Twitter (Steve Clayton)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – IntelliSense Does Not Work – Enable IntelliSense (Pinal Dave)
• Programmatically generating SQL(DDL) from M (Mehfuz H.)

Miscellaneous

• Why is Git so Fast? (Eric Sink)
• Windows 7 Product Editions: A Comparison (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Points: Computing Forecast: Cloud[s]! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• How to customize how your logo appears on your project’s banner – #004 (Sara Ford)
• Add Windows Live Messenger to Your Website and Put Any Widget on Your Windows 7 Desktop (Sarah Perez)
• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 30, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 30, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #318 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2009 — #557 and Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2009 – 2 — #558 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 30, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.30~03.31 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for March 30th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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