Dew Drop – April 23, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• Web Browser in C# (Kapil Soni)
• Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio ShortcutsAnother List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
• Using Active Record to write less code and Ode to ReSharper and NHibernate Tidbit – using <set/> without referencing Iesi.Collections (Oren Eini)
• VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is Out (David Starr)
• Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage. (Tess Ferrandez)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility (Joe White)
• HowTo: Tweet with C# (Robert Muehsig)
• MCsla – Fixing up output from mgx (Rockford Lhotka)
• Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the Type Name (Harry Pierson)
• Dogfooding Ukadc.Diagnostics (Josh Twist)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Intro to Composite App Frameworks with Prism (David Makogon)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness (Ashish Shetty)
• Silverlight and DOM events (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded (Mike Taulty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 2: mapping terrain types to GUI (Joe White)
• Silverlight, Web Services and DataSets (Dave M. Bush)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agility Cycle – Part 2 (Brad Appleton)
• Simple Management Tip: Tracking 1:1 Conversations (Steve Rowe)
• DDD: Making implicit concepts explicit (Mark Needham)
• Second Order Agile Scaling (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nice Acceptance Test Framework: Cucumber (Jim Holmes)
• NDepend and the quality of the Cruise Control .NET code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• Source Control Only Team Projects (David Starr)
• Who has been a great leader in your career and what made them a great leader? (Denis Gobo)
• When Surrogate Keys Attack (and validation isn’t there) (Howard Dierking)
• Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
• UX thoughts – In defense of eye candy, an “A List Apart” article (András  Velvárt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow (Carl Franklin)
• Hervey Wilson on the Geneva Framework (Donovan Follette)
• Code Cast 26 – Prism 2.0 (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #50 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• Linguistics on the job, on the stage … and in space? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Let Your NoVa Code Camp Geek Flair Fly (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Test Your Application on Windows 7 at TechEd 2009 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0 (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Web Development

• Any ASP.NET Debugging requests? (Tom)
• Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer? (Deepak Verma)
• Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database (Phil Haack)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller (K. Scott Allen)
• Stopping the panic: how to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial performances. Don’t run in debug mode (Simone Chiaretta)
• Finally played with ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)

 

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tip: Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script (James Brundage)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Zune Lyrics" Plug-in for Zune Software (Blake Handler)
• NH Prof: An important milestone (Oren Eini)
• Super discount on MS Certification Exams (Chris G. Williams)
• Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100 (Steven Bink)
• Office 2010 Revealed: Redux and Windows Mobile 6.5 Miscellaneous Debris (Stephen Chapman)
• How to subscribe to all project updates via RSS – #021 and There are now separate RSS feeds for Reviews and Releases – #022 (Sara Ford)
• Best source code comments (Daniel Moth)
• Ink Input and Tablet PC (Win 7 Team)
• Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed? (Kalen Delaney)
• Source Code with a Sense of Humor (Michael Ceranski)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #333 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #25 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 314 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for April 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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