Dew Drop – April 27, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Repository’s Daughter (Oren Eini)
• There is no right way (Chris Brandsma)
• Build the right feature, build the feature right! (David L.)
• Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? (Glenn Block)
• Design By Contracts meets Automated White box Testing (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Overcoming Fear of Unit Testing Disease (Julie Lerman)
• Validation – Part 1 – Getting Started (Karl Seguin)
• If You Aren’t The Caretaker, Why Are You The Product Owner? (Max Pool)
• Prototyping with SketchFlow (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• The big picture of the SharpDevelop code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoSpec and AutoTest.NET – AutoSpec for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• 10,000 Hours to Graceland (Rod Paddock)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Futures (Oren Eini)
• Unlambda .NET – With a Big Dose of C# 3.0 Lambdas (Bart de Smet)
• Functional C# – Forward Functional Composition and Functional C# – Reverse Functional Composition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms (Mohammad Elsheimy)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException (Joe White)
• Data Synchronization and the Compact Framework (Joel Ross)
• Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil (Justin Etheredge)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service (Dave M. Bush)
• Silverlight 3 Hidden Features: TextBox.CaretBrush (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Databinding the videogame, part 4: terrain collection and Databinding the videogame, part 5: making the map 2-D (Joe White)
• Silverlight 3 Navigation API (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)

 

Web Development

• Getting up and Running Quickly with ScrewTurn Wiki & SQL Server (Dave Schinkel)
• You should NOT use ASP.NET MVC if. . . (Jeffrey Palermo)
• 7 New APIs – Aviary, Google and ProgrammableWeb (John Musser)
• Suteki Shop is now a sample application on the official MVC Framework site (Mike Hadlow)
• 6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Northeast Roadshow – Silverlight with WCF, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services (Brian Johnson)
• DDD: Videos from Øredev (Casey Charlton)
• Major Nelson Blogcast – Show #317 : Wolverine, The Maw DLC and Todd McFarlane (Larry Hryb)
• SE Radio Episode 133: Continuous Integration with Chris Read (Volker Mosthaf)

 

Database

• SQL Server Except and Intersect (Richard Carr)
• Import directory of XML files into SQL Server 2005 (Ted Krueger)
• T- SQL – How to get all descendants of a given element in a hierarchical table (Paolo Costa)
• SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables (Pinal Dave)

 

Community / Events

• Awarded INETA Community Champion for Q1 2009 (Ben Scheirman)
• Party with Palermo location confirmed for Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQLAuthority News – Starting the SQL Journey – How Did I Get Started With SQL? (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases Free Sample Chapters of Upcoming Windows 7 Books and Microsoft’s MSDev.com Releases Free Web Seminars: "A Developer’s First Look at Windows 7" (Blake Handler)
• Organize your Personal Resources – Just use a Wiki! (Dave Schinkel)
• What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Has The Virtualization Future Arrived? (Jeff Atwood)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• PowerShell CmdLet Name Changes (Gary Lapointe)
• Crossing Domain Boundaries: Name Resolution (Oleg Sych)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #335 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 – 2 — #579 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2009 — #580 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 25, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #50 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day