Dew Drop – May 30, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Method for Loading Interfaces in C# (For a Plugin System) (Tom Hearn)
• Combining Arrays (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 will allow mobile development, Microsoft affirms (WindowsForDevices)
• Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure (Chris)
• MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed "Oslo" Grammars (Chris Sells)
• Reading embedded files at runtime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery! (Elisa Flasko)
• dropkick – an idea for deployments (Dru Sellers)
• Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0 (Tess Ferrandez)
• F#: Testing asynchronous calls to MailBoxProcessor (Mark Needham)
• .NET Cheat Sheets (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 2 and Part 3 (Rob Reynolds)
• Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Move Command Link Column to End Column – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK Documentation is now available! (VSX Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Heisenbugs (Chris Missal)
• More Persistence Patterns in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation with the Data Annotation Validators (ASP.NET Tutorials)
• Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and jQuery ProgressBar (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Resource Collection and ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping (Elijah Manor)
• Writing A Page To A String (Phil Haack)
• Indonesian MVP Releases Open Source IIS Log Analyzer! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tip#66: Did you know… how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? (Deepak Verma)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine. (Joe Stagner)
• Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes (Brian Genisio)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 and A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Google Wave Video Demo Makes a Little More Sense of Wave (Adam Pash)
• Video: Silverlight 2 Video Reflection (Nigel Parker)
• This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements (Drew Robbins)
• 10 MorphX tricks in 10 minutes (Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan)
• Mike Ormond interviews me about the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)

 

Community / Events

• Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009 (Fritz Onion)
• 1/2 Day Windows 7 AppCompat Lab Engagement at Reston MTC, 6/8-6/12 (Free) (Zhiming Xue)
• Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT (Sunshine)

 

Database

• Get local lab and instances going. Replication /.SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 – Promising, but Supported? (William Vaughn)
• Grouping datetime values in half hour blocks in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Mag 7/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peek (Howard Dierking)
• LightBox Makes Simple Touch-Ups a Snap (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Is Hulu Coming to Xbox 360? (Mark Wilson)
• Rants and Raves #1 (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing and Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (Laura Foy)
• 7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities (Lee Mathews)
• First night with Bing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters (Sridhar Vembu)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7138: Redux and EXCLUSIVE: Windows 7 UI Animations – The Early Days (Stephen Chapman)
• How to connect to a CodePlex TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 – #040 (Sara Ford)
• Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center and Microsoft Launches Real-Time Browser: IE8 Bundled with OneRiot (Sarah Perez)
• Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 — #604 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 29th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 29th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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