Day: May 6, 2009

 

Web Development

• jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET (Arnold Matusz)
• JSMag May 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Customizing ASP.NET’s CreateUserWizard Control To Display a Fixed Set of Security Questions (Scott Mitchell)
• PTOM: Breaking Free from HttpContext (Colin Ramsay)
• jQuery – Accordion and DotNetNuke CSS in your Module Settings (Dave M. Bush)
• Put Your Pages and Views on Lockdown (Phil Haack)
• jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together” (Marc Schneider)
• A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline (Rafay Ali)
• Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Maarten Balliauw)
• Project Huron Wants YOU to Test Cloud-Based Data Services (Dana Coffey)
• Win Your Copy: JavaScript for Programmers (Me)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: RC (MS Downloads)
• AutoMapper feature – custom type converters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Drools on Windows (Part 3 of 22) – Object Interop (Dana Stevens)
• .NET Platform Invoke Paradigm in Java (J/Invoke) (Vitaly Shelest)
• Checking XML for Semantic Equivalence in C# (Justin Etheredge)
• Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET (Mike Taulty)
• Atom feeds with the Windsor WCF Facility and Windsor WCF Facility: MessageAction and MessageEnvelopeAction (Mike Hadlow)
• C#: Using Virtual Leads to Confusion? (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Software Craftsman’s Bookshelf (Gøran Hansen)
• NUnit 2.5 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
• How design rot (Oren Eini)
• A testing survey on a large project (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option (Justin Etheredge)
• ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW (Scott Hanselman)
• Enterprise Constraints and Feedback (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Book Review: WPF In Action with Visual Studio 2008 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Expression Blend Tutorial: Customizing the Look of a Radio Button (Frank La Vigne)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 1 (Michael Ceranski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 (Adam Kinney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #107: Testing MVC Routes (Kyle Baley)
• Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)

 

Community / Events

• F# Community Roundup (Chris Smith)
• Microsoft Connected Health Conference (Eric Gunnerson)
• Stored Procedure panel at Tech Ed 2009 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• You’re invited to XamlFest Boston – May 27 + May 28 (John Pelak)
• Stack Overflow Moderator Voting Now Open (Jeff Atwood)
• My MVC Best Practices talk (Sebastien Lambla)
• Sod This at TechEd (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell V2 – backward compatibility (Osama Sajid)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration by Ross Mistry (Pinal Dave)
• Handling long running queries with a stop sign (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Debugging SharePoint Workflows (Vishwas Lele)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft wants to take Seadragon to Windows 8, Windows Mobile 7, everywhere (Long Zheng)
• Revitalizing a Technical Career (Jeremy D. Miller)
• You can sort the project directory by top-rated releases – #028 and Why some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage – #029 (Sara Ford)
• What’s in your svn:ignore? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Functionally Implementing Intersperse (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Google Contacts Open to Non-Gmail Users and OpenOffice.org 3.1 Available at a Server Near You (Kevin Purdy)
• Getting up and running on git-svn (5 minute quickstart) (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Git, SSH, PuTTY, GitHub, Unfuddle, the kitchen sink (Sergio Pereira)
• Windows 7 RC Available: Why You Should Upgrade From XP (Simon Mackie)
• I Just Logged in as You: How It Happened (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #341 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #116 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 — #586 and Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2009 – 2 — #587 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 318 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 27 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

Book of the Day