Dew Drop – May 1, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter (Bill Buxton)
• TestDriven.Net 2.21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 RC (Jamie Cansdale)
• Why Messaging #2 – What is a message (Dru Sellers)
• Fail a build if tests fail (Martin Hinshelwood)
• More Second Order Agile Scaling… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• yUML – For NOT Sketching UML Diagrams Online! (Tobin Harris)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Data Binding WPF Lookup Combobox Values to EF Entities (Beth Massi)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

 

Web Development

• Adding Rhino.Security Support to S#arp Projects (Billy McCafferty)
• Friday Books – ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview (Dave M. Bush)
• Tip #60: Did you know… How to profiling an asp.net site? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Windows Azure Geo-location Live (Azure Team)
• Using jQuery Validation in ASP.NET Master Pages (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dropdown Menus of Simplicity (Mike Glenn)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Validator (Oren Eini)
• .NET Config for Multiple Developers (Tobin Harris)
• DataDirect releases a Beta of their Oracle.NET Client with EF support (Julie Lerman)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dino Esposito Gets Architectural! (Carl Franklin)
• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 8? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings (Matt Milner)
• The History of Microsoft – 1987 (Tina)
• Sod This 4 – Now with 100% less swearing! (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 6 – Custom web services (Kirk Evans)

 

Community / Events

• Smut On Rails (Martin Fowler)
• Eavesdrop at the Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Angela Binkowski)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, May 5th, 6:30pm – WCF 3.5 REST (Christopher Steen)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Silverlight 3 Links from the Reston DevDinner (Pete Brown)
• Cloud Computing User Group Meeting: Architecting an n-tier application for the Azure Platform (Zhiming Xue)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward) – Link of the Day
• Share, Inspire, Admire: Expression Community Gallery for Designers & Developers (Silverlight Team)

 

PowerShell

• SE07 Automating Your Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell 2.0 (Jeffrey Snover)
• SE06 Whats New in Windows PowerShell 2.0 and SE05 Easy Automation with Windows PowerShell (Hemant Mahawar)
• Enable-PSRemoting (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Release Date: October 23, According to Acer (Adam Pash)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• RTM’d today: Programming for Unified Communications (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• Optimizing Your Wallet (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 RC Secure WMP Internet Streaming is Impressive (Paul Thurrott)
• How to visit the Full Tag Cloud for CodePlex – #25 (Sara Ford)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for April 30th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 316 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (4/30/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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