Dew Drop – June 4, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

• bistro f# extensions go beta! and move to codeplex… (Alex Pedenko)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit and Microsoft Sync Framework (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate – Beware of inadvisably applied caching strategies (Oren Eini)
• How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ and How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? (Peter Kellner)
• Quadrant Tutorials (Sam Gentile)
• A Great Buried Sample in Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Dynamic Data Futures (Stephen Naughton)
• Fix For WCF NetMsmqBinding Not Picking Up Messages in Queue (Keith Elder)
• LINQ to XSD on CodePlex (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Ordered Interaction Points (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 2 (Jason Meridth)
• Hunt the Class (James Hart)
• CodeDom vs T4: two approaches to Code Generation (David Ebbo)

Web Development

• Tip #73: Did you know… about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta (Deepak Verma)
• A Slightly Closer Look at Sueetie List Controls (Dave Burke)
• IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (Scott Guthrie)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
• .NET 2.0 ActiveX Control Gotchas (Safe for Scripting and Hooking into Events) (Rick Minerich)
• HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
• Programming SEO – Cross Linking (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Resx and BAML Resources in WPF (Rick Strahl)
• “Because XAML is so darn fun to say. Zaml.” (Rob Relyea)
• Using the MVVM Toolkit in VS2010 (Rudi Grobler) – Link of the Day
• Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta available and Silverlight Spy 3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF: Pong (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight3 PlaneProjection Primer (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Blend Artboard Exceptions and Loaded Event (Andy Beaulieu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting technical debt with the wall of pain (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Five Traits of Agile Projects (Brad Appleton)
• How Can This Test Fail? (Davy Brion)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 0 (Rob Reynolds)
• Catching Up On Lean (K. Scott Allen)
• PDF Output With yUML, And Other Things… (Tobin Harris)
• KARVONITE: AGILE PERSISTENCE FRAMEWORK (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Observing And Understanding Builders – Part 5 (Rajiv Popat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tour the homepages of your favorite celebrities (Marissa Mayer)
• Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Adam Kinney)
• Toolshed Episode 2: It’s All About the Tools (Bob Familiar)
• Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 – Side-by-Side In-Process – What. How. Why. (Charles Torre)
• Radio TFS 21: The Beta 1 Show (Radio TFS)
• Conversation with Steven Bristol (Corey Haines)
• Management lessons from the financial crisis: A conversation with Lowell Bryan and Richard Rumelt (Mike Walker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #56 (Jeff Atwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #115: Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
• Oren Melzer on what’s new in Windows CardSpace Geneva beta 2 (Donovan Follette)

Community / Events

• AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Frequently Asked Questions about the INETA Regional Speakers Bureau (Chris G. Williams)
• Windows 7 Ship Dates Announced and Some Training Resources to Prepare Yourself (Dave Bost)
• Another Local Silverlight Event This Month (Frank La Vigne)
• Strengthening the Microsoft Ecosystem with Source Code (Harry Pierson)

Database

• Insight into SQL Profiler’s history (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – What is Interim Table – Simple Definition of Interim Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Bing: How Useful Is Microsoft’s New Search Offering? (Darrell Etherington)
• Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
• Google Squared Goes Live, Formats Your Searches Into a Spreadsheet (Azadeh Ensha)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 3 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How to find a specific user’s profile page – #042 (Sara Ford)
• Using Live Mesh and Git – the best of both worlds (Louis DeJardin)
• Sharing Files With BitTorrent (Jeff Atwood)
• KillCopy Speeds Up Disk Transfers and Securely Deletes Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #361 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2009 — #607 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 3rd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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