Dew Drop – July 17, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) (Brad Abrams)
• Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit’s TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Range Slider in Silverlight (and some of the binding gotchas in SL3) (Josh Twist)
• Animated page navigation in SL3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Day #17: Silverlight Layout Options (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• Manually Adding Event Handlers in VB.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Validation Class (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Three: Why no yield in finally? (Eric Lippert)
• Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Adding Persistence to the .NETOOP Edit in Place control. (Joe Stagner)
• System.Data.Linq.Binary is not XmlSerializable (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PM Skills for Life (J.D. Meier)
• StrictMock vs. DynamicMock: What are You Testing Here Anyway? (Jimmy Bosse)
• Defensive Programming, or Why Exception Handling Is Like Car Insurance (Lee Dumond)
• Book Review: The Nomadic Developer (Jim Holmes)
• Discussion: Mentoring, Knowledge Transfer and Different Styles Of Learning (Ryan Svihla)
• Lean Reading List (Scott Bellware)
• Mocking indexer getters with Moq (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Web Development

• Creating Ruby-like "Extensions" in JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating A RESTful API With WCF (Justin)
• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Setting up Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery (Ralph Whitbeck)
• HTML5 and The Future of the Web (Tim Wright)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Roger Barga – Introduction to Dryad and DryadLINQ (Charles Torre)

 

SharePoint

• Fixing 400 RequestLength Issue in SharePoint and IIS (Tom Hearn)

 

Database

• String Aggregation in T-SQL & PL-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• File/Folder/Share Permissions for DBAs and Database Developers (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database (Pinal Dave)

 

Community / Events

• Popfly Shutting Down (John Montgomery)   🙁
• Submit your ideas to change the face of broadband (Richard Whitt)
• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Presentation Patterns for Virtual ALT.NET in August: You pick the topics (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• More Microsoft Research Releases (Jim O’Neil)
• Two reasons (so far) why I would not uninstall Office 14 and return to Office 12… (Kit Kai)
• Companies Don’t Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide (Sridhar Vembu)
• Book Review: Beautiful Security (Jim Holmes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #392 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 — #642 and Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 – 2 — #643 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for July 16th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (7/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 16th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day