Dew Drop – July 28, 2009

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate Framework Architecture (Quach Nguyen)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML (Dave M. Bush)
• How to Access JavaScript Variables on Postback in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• NerdDinner On Azure – Take 2 (Jim O’Neil)
• Lots of buzz about MvcContrib! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Programmatically Creating Website Thumbnails (Rob Bazinet)
• ASP.NET Membership Tip: Requiring New Users To Change Their Password When Logging On For The First Time (Scott Mitchell)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List, Take 2 (Steve Naughton)
• Fluent Sharp NHibernate Persistence Configuration, or “How to build credibility through OSS name dropping” (Kyle Baley)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet (Brad Abrams)
• Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations] (David Anson)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Version Compatibility (Hanu Kommalapati) – Link of the Day
• Bindorama – Binding Craziness now for Silverlight too! (Josh Twist)
• The Silverlight 3 Toolkit ( July 09 ) (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing (Rod Stephens)
• Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug) (snoutholder)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Controls on Forms (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial) (Habib Heydarian)
• Method to Release COM Object References (Srinath MS)
• Combining two disparate collections (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 1) (Subodh Sohoni)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pet Peeve Code Smell: Multiple Calls to a Method in a Block (Bobby Johnson)
• Macto, or How To Build a Prison (Oren Eini)
• Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline (Chris Patterson)
• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog… (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading Code: Rhino Mocks (Mark Needham)
• Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines (Wesley Bakker)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 1: Rethink ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• How to Interact with Your Team as a Manager (Steve Rowe)
• Static Typing vs. Dynamic Typing (Michael Feathers)
• Can Managers Lead Agile Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Community / Events

• Intuit Backs a New Open Source Community (Andres Ferrate)
• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post (Ben Scheirman)
• Unethical behavior (Oren Eini)
• Don’t be such a #@%#! Lazy Programmer! (Dave M. Bush)
• Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? Let’s chat! and Looking to create a more compelling experience for your users? Silverlight? WPF? Expression? Does it all sound like gibberish? The Mid Atlantic Roadshow is coming to your backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Nobody Has a Duty to Teach (Max Pool)
• All C# Compiler Developer Team blogs (Kirill Osenkov)
• Please sign the official “Bring Sara Ford to TechEd Australia” petition! (Sara Ford)
• Session Submission is now open for SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship (Sam Gentile)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching (Bob Familiar)
• Some useful WMI webcasts (K. Mathur)
• Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF’s! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface (Laura Foy)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Design Process Decision Flow (Pinal Dave)
• The Case For Renaming Controls In a Reporting Services Report (Thomas Williams)
• Hey Developers! Tune your SQL! (Michael Ceranski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing Could Be Improved with Online Game (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Laplink Releases "PCmover" Utility for Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• 10 Ways To Bing It! (Deepak Kapoor)
• Canonical and ShortUrl on Channel9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 Is NOT a "Vista Service Pack" (Sasha Goldshtein) – Sasha rebuts Jeff’s article.
• Microsoft Wave launched (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft entices Windows Mobile developers with chance to win Surface table (Tim Conneally)
• Version Control with Git Book Review (Mike Riley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #398 and The Morning Brew #399 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 — #656 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2009 — #655 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 27th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the week #85 – “Back from Amsterdam” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 103 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

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