Dew Drop – May 31, 2009

 

Web Development

• New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
• First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
• Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
• NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
• Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
• Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
• Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
• Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

 

Community / Events

• Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

 

PowerShell

• PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

 

SharePoint

• Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
• Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

 

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
• All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

 

More Link Collections

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

 

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