Dew Drop – July 14, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download (Christian Schormann) – Link of the Day
• Getting Started with Silverlight 3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication and Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App (Brad Abrams)
• Get URI Of Silverlight Plugin Host Page (Deepak Kapoor)
• Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight (John Papa)
• Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to! (Tim Heuer)
• Using Element to Element Binding for ToolTips in Silverlight 3 (Dan Wahlin)
• Guidance on WPFSL differences (Lester Lobo)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate (Sunshine)
• Where is the Blend SDK? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ‘Brush’ type does not have a public TypeConverter class. (Joel Cochran)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Asynchronous order processing (Oren Eini)
• Using a controller to manage static resources (Daniel Crenna)
• Agile and Prototyping (Daniela Panfili)
• Scrum or Kanban… it’s not Black or White (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The 3 L’s Towards Loving The Code We Hate (Max Pool)
• Kanban Is Process Control, Not A Process For Adding Value To WIP (Derick Bailey)
• Throw away and rebuild or refactor from within (Derik Whittaker)
• On Managing API (Patrick Smacchia)
• Test Doubles: My current approach (Mark Needham)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: New Font Sizes, Backgrounds and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Working in Scenarios (Patrick Kua)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated DBFile with some more extension methods (Jason Haley)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More! (Brad Abrams)
• Book Review: Essential LINQ (Bill Wagner)
• More Entity Framework Resources (Joe Stagner)
• LINQ to SQL and Transactions (Rick Strahl)
• Encrypt and Decrypt Configuration File Sections from a Command Line (Deepak Choudhari)
• Using NHibernate for Legacy Databases (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Fun with Breakpoints in the Visual Studio Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Converting Between List and String Types (Srinath MS)
• Securing Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh (Stephen Naughton)
• How to: Ensure that files are buildable when they are being checked in to Team Foundation Version Control. (Subodh Sohoni)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Two: Why no ref or out parameters? (Eric Lippert)
• Evaluating an Object’s PropertyPath (Rahul Singla)

 

Web Development

• CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• Spammers Are Vermin (Jacob Proffitt)
• Tell me what smells in WebForms as a view engine (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Twenty (20) Rich Text Editors to use in your applications (Tobias Zimmergren)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (MS Events)
• Video: The Myth of the Genius Programmer (Brian Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #126: Building a NAnt script – Part 5: Adding MSTest results to your build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight 2 Security (Jossie Tirado)
• Episode 76 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones Talks Security (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 140: Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Braha (SE-Radio Team)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The Nerds of Tomorrow (Scott Hanselman)
• 10-4 Episode 26: Creating Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jason Olson)

 

Community / Events

• VAN is a friend of Pablo’s! (Chad Myers)
• MVP TV: Real World TFS: Tips for a Successful Team System Implementation July 15th 9:00am PST and What’s New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Development Team Friday July 17th 10:00AM PST (Charles Sterling)
• Van Presentation on Wednesday 15th July – Developer Productivity (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Catch Me On Tour, Bringing jQuery & MVC to You! (Rachel Appel)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 developer docs now available! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

 

Database

• Guids and compression (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Backup Timeline and Understanding of Database Restore Process in Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Better Know A SSIS Transform – Conditional Split (Devin Knight)

 

PowerShell

• Advanced Debugging in PowerShell (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bing at Month One (Yusuf Mehdi)
• More Windows 7 MIA Features (Debra Shinder)
• Yes, there’s an Office 2010 Mobile too (Paul Thurrott)
• Office 2010 and Microsoft’s Strategic Muddle (Sridhar Vembu)
• Microsoft’s new Office 2010 brings Office back from the dead (tons of videos) (Robert Scoble)
• 10 Reasons You’ll Love Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review (Scott Hanselman)
• Official names assigned for project Geneva (Keith Brown)
• Microsoft to launch new music streaming service “this month” (Kip Kniskern)
• The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey (Ed Bott)
• A Look At Office 2010 with Chris Capossela (Larry Larsen)
• The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 (Leena Rao)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #389 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 — #637 and Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 – 2 — #638 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 340 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Book of the Day