Dew Drop – May 26, 2009

 

The Morning Dew is back after a day off the grid.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Improvements to the F# project system inside Visual Studio (Brian McNamara)
• The Dynamic Programmer – Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0 (Hernan Garcia)
• NHibernate: Why do we need to specify the query type twice? (Oren Eini)
• Thoughts on Windows 7 and VS 2010 (Jason Haley)
• DynamicDataTable, Part 2 (Curt Hagenlocher)
• Some Great EF Resources (Danny Simmons)
• Why Is The Return Type Parameter Last? (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• VS2010 Tutorial: Testing Tutorial (Step 2) (Jason Zander)
• Get VS2010 Extensions easily with built-in Extension Manager (and checking out a VS2010 T4 editor) (Julie Lerman)
• Learning how to walk with Mono (Louis Salin)
• A Queue Isn’t An Implementation Detail (Udi Dahan)
• Regular Expressions, Your Job Requires Them (Tim Barcz)

 

Web Development

• ToDo List using ASP.NET MVC (Amit Bhandari)
• Adding the LINQ to SQL ORM to Your .NET Project (Sara J. Chipps)
• Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin (Rick Strahl)
• Bind an ASP.NET Repeater to a Generic List<> (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOKS: The CMDB Imperative and the Data Access Handbook (Brad Appleton)
• Moq examples, Part II (Brett Schuchert)
• Presenting Pex to your co-workers? Use our slide decks… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Revisiting CodeBetter.Canvas (Karl Seguin)
• Refactoring: Removing duplication more safely (Mark Needham)
• Flow, Leveling, and User Stories (Scott Bellware)
• Why Are You Asking Me This Question? (Max Pool)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight (Amit Raz)
• Indian MVP Inspired by Silverlight 3! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is. (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF MasterPage (Pascal Kaelin)
• Improved Blend 3 Asset Library (John Papa)
• Silverlight DataForm helpers (Tim Heuer)
• Process list in XAML plus a bit of virtualisation with the .NET Client Profile (Mike Taulty)
• DataForm Templates (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Community / Events

• US Southwest: BizTalk Server 2009 “First Look” tour (Brian Loesgen)
• Events This Week – Memorial Day Edition – May 25th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Available (Sam Gentile)
• Survey on Ajax adoption: some quick stats (Simone Chiaretta)
• AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Anu Arora: Software Testing (R)Evolution (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Show #320 :Tekken 6 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Larry Hryb)
• Hal and Kirk on HanselMinutes (Osama Sajid)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 – some random info on the web (Joris Poelmans)

 

Database

• GUID Ordering in SQL Server and GUID Fragmentation in SQL Server and WMI Event Alerts (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Find Hostname and Current Logged In User Name (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft Should Do For .NET Open Source (Davy Brion)
• Cloud hosting providers – Compare and Contrast (Andy Singleton)
• Dr. K on Top 10 Lessons in Interpersonal Skills (J.D. Meier)
• The value of a fresh mind (Mark Needham)
• Windows 7 Wallpaper Pack – Inspired by the New ‘7’ (Taimur Asad)
• Another Windows Mobile 7 Roadmap and Windows Mobile 7 and Microsoft Research’s MashupOS in Tandem: U.S. DoD Approved and Old Windows Mobile 7 Mock-Up UI (Stephen Chapman)
• How to create a hidden release – #036 (Sara Ford)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #354 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2009 — #600 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #81 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #54 (Grant Palin)
• Links (5/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 95 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 05/24/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for May 25th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day