Dew Drop – May 23, 2009

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows 7 and the joy of good design (Dwight Silverman)
• Waiting, it isn’t as simple as twiddling your thumbs (Oren Eini)
• Subverting TDD as a design tool (Jimmy Bogard)
• Strict Mocks and Characterization Tests (Brett Schuchert)
• Testing that an event was raised (Roy Osherove)
• A Metaphor for Flow and Flaccid Kanban (Scott Bellware)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• yUML Direction Control and Scaling (Tobin Harris)
• Coding: Setters reduce trust and Pair Programming: It’s not about equal keyboard time (Mark Needham)
• Always Valid (Greg Young)
• Books I Recommend Often… (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Zentity v1.0 (MS Research)
• Model First in Entity Framework 4 (Gil Fink)
• Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 (Shawn Farkas)
• Getting to know ClickOnce Deployment (Karl Shifflett)
• Relaxing on the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Can you make money on OSS tooling in the .NET world? (Oren Eini)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Justin Van Patten)
• How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi)
• Why doesn’t IEqualityComparer use Equals() in LINQ’s Intersect? (with a stroll down the lane of GetHashCode and the Birthday Paradox) (Billy McCafferty)
• Performance of Fibonacci numbers algorithms and .Net Framework 4.0: Introducing BigInteger and Visual Studio 2010: How to crash Windows 7 (Gunnar Peipman)
• MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing (Chris Patterson)
• Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Tangible T4 Editor for VS 2010 Beta 1 (VSX Team)
• M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP and Entity Framework Samples now in Visual Basic (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010 (Quan To)
• Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don’t forget to target .NET 4.0 and A Look at Lazy Loading in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• Cropping with ASP.Net (Coding4Fun)
• Friday Books – Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software (Tony Rasa)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Favorites (Dave Burke)
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Simone Chiaretta)
• 9 New APIs: Google, Yahoo, Wolfram, plus Tweets, Jobs and Music (John Musser)
• Generate an image from a Photoshop file (.psd) in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 with Ria Authentication service (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)
• WFWPF sample using System.Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• SilverUnit Project Template and new version (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• Which came first, the View or the Model? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight (Karl Seguin)
• I’m committed to Two Tool Development (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Modularity in Prism (Erik Mork)
• Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7 and Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox (Dan Fernandez)
• Jason Zander: Perspectives on Visual Studio 2008 and the Future of VS (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• Architect Factory Coming to Microsoft NERD in Cambridge June 2nd (Bob Familiar)
• IASA New York IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (Bill Zack)
• Windows Live Messenger Hackathon: May 27th (Sarah Perez)
• CANCELLED: Developer Dinner in Reston, Va (Marc Schweigert)
• Win a Free Seat to the Silverlight Tour at the Silverlight FireStarter DC! (Frank La Vigne)
• Publishers Offering Support for User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• DELETE TOP x rows avoiding a table scan and UPDATE and DELETE TOP and ORDER BY : Part 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 – Register for the CTP (Simon Sabin)
• Here Is Yet Another Reason For Upgrading To SQL Server 2008 From SQL Server 2000 (Denis Gobo)
• Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don’t want to take a big performance hit (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Multi-Value Parameters in SSRS (Emtucifor)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 3) (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: SPList.Clear() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MapLook" Outlook 2007 Add-In for Google Maps & Microsoft Virtual Earth (Blake Handler)
• US Government Launches Data.gov (Andres Ferrate)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 5: Presentation Settings for Visual Studio (Justin Etheredge)
• True Success (Sara J. Chipps)
• How to Motivate Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
• Wolfram Alpha searching for its niche (Tom Krazit)
• How to customize your CodePlex Work Item template, in a way – #035 and Filter by work items that you’re tracking (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 – Seamless Apps in Windows Virtual PC (Virtual XP) and Application Compatibility (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Mobile 7: Still on Schedule (Stephen Chapman)
• A Visual History of the Internet (Steve Clayton)
• Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? (Jonathan Cogley)
• Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget (Nathan Treloar)
• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing with a Silver Lining (Michael Sparks)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 22, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2009 — #599 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 22nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 22nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)

 

Book of the Day