Dew Drop – April 17, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Deep Zoom Composer (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #107 – Animation Easing Demo (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 3 and GPU Acceleration (Mike Taulty)
• The State of the ViKi (Jesse Liberty)
• How to show a Silverlight app on your wiki homepage – #017 (Sara Ford)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Mapping – Named queries <query/> and <sql-query/> (Oren Eini)
• Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Answers (Bart de Smet)
• Creating a Select Count(*) with NHibernate using Criteria (Derik Whittaker)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache and multiple databases (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding Dojo #12: F# (Mark Needham)
• Notifications and Subscriptions (Kevin Ledley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kobe – In the nuts & bolts and don’t really liking it and Kobe – Data Access done wrong and Kobe – When the documentation is the only delivery that matters and Kobe – an example of exception handling done wrong and Kobe – Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Kobe – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Code Sample Taxonomy (Phil Haack)
• Just say “No!” to C# Regions? Really?! (Dave M. Bush)
• A lovely couple (of architecture books) (Dino Esposito)
• Qualifying Architecture with Quality Attributes and Architecture Journal 19: TechEd 2009 Special Edition (Mike Walker)
• Exception Driven Development (Jeff Atwood)

 

Web Development

• Friday Books – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Dave M. Bush)
• Sueetie Data Core: The Unification (Dave Burke)
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sequentially download multiple files (with jQuery) (Peter Eysermans) – Link of the Day
• Mapping a Generic List to a List of SelectListItems (Erik Peterson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET (Mike Ormond)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds on why projects fail (Carl Franklin)
• Deep Agile Conference 2009 – Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Jack Ganssle (Bob Payne)
• The History of Microsoft – 1985 (Tina)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Tour of Fog Creek Software with Joel Spolsky (Scott Hanselman)
• 10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4 (Ron Jacobs)
• Welcome to “The Id Element” Show and Stuart Kwan – On Identity and Microsoft code name “Geneva” (Donovan F.)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Events Presents: The Best Of MIX (Dave Campbell)
• Learning WPF at the WPF LOB tour and XAMLFest events (Tim Heuer)
• Comments: Now with Flags and Votes and The Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle (Jeff Atwood)

 

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 7 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• SharePoint: Customizing standard forms (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 FAQ (Paul Thurrott)
• How to upgrade two out of four of your hard drives in Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Live Labs goes through re-org – new projects coming soon (damaster)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Nick Berardi)
• Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #329 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2009 — #572 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-16 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tech Twitterings #24 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (4/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for April 16th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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