Month: July 2009

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
• MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
• Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
• A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

• It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
• Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
• Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
• Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
• F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
• Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
• ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
• Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
• Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
• Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
• Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
• IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
• Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
• Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
• Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day