Day: May 15, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Error Detection (Oren Eini)
• Project-wide controller survey through reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• Odd issues with Nant and and lack of (or addition of) xmlns in your files (Derik Whittaker)
• Sneak Preview: N-Tier development with Entity Framework 4.0 (Diego Vega)
• Sneak Preview: Model Defined Functions (Alex James)
• Online TechTalk about POCO and other EF4 Features (Danny Simmons)
• Stay in Sync with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Null Is Not Empty (Eric Lippert)
• My HP Mini Runs Visual Studio 2010 (Stephen Walther)
• Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Install the Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition on x64 (Brian Peek)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Write a Sortable ObservableCollection for WPF (Brian Lagunas)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 and Tips: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Alpha Video with Silverlight 3 Pixel Shaders (Michael S. Scherotter)
• More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Who made my text circular? (Coding4Fun)

 

Web Development

• Twitter from ASP.NET and Twitter from ASP.NET – Simple GUI (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing (Juliën Hanssens)
• Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper (Dan Wahlin)
• setInterval is (moderately) evil (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Functions are Objects (Julian M. Bucknall)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• About RIA design (Daniela Panfili)
• Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Why Messaging #4 – So hows it going? (Dru Sellers)
• Who left the PartialMock out in the sun? It stinks! (Jimmy Bosse)
• How Do You Deal With Exceptions? (Justin Etheredge)
• Coding Dojo #14: Rock, Scissors, Paper – TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• IronRuby just got a mocking framework – kind of (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why a LeanSSC? Why a Lean Certification? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #110: Learning the State Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1989 (Tina)
• 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF (Ron Jacobs)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 (Scott Koon)
• Phil Winstanley and Dave Sussman Reflect on WebDD09 (Mike Ormond)
• Data Access Menu – panel discussion video now online (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Community / Events

• db40 – A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken (Kirk Knoernschild)
• IronRuby at RailsConf 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 2 – In-Person Meeting with Industry Leaders – Community Party (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• SQLCat white papers a must read for performance and scalability (Simon Sabin)
• Viewing Windows Azure log files using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Using MOSS and WSS SharePoint Workflow to Resize Images in an Image Library (Tom Hearn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Drop.io launches Present.io public beta (Christina Warren)
• Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek? (Cory Doctorow) – YES!!!
• Virtual PC Beta (Mike Ormond)
• Windows 7’s Best Underhyped Features [Screenshot Tour] (The How-To Geek)
• Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google? (Thomas Ricker)
• Asteroids v2 (Vijaye)
• Go Retro: Get Windows 98 Themes for Windows 7 and Make Media Center Black (Sarah Perez)
• Office 2010 Updates (Sumeeth Evans)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 14, 2009 — #593 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Technology Post for May 14th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 14th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 320 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day