Dew Drop – August 5, 2009

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Self-Initializing Fake (Martin Fowler)
• OR/M suitability and Watermarking and Security and NH Prof New Feature: Detect Cross Thread Session Usage (Oren Eini)
• Are You The Best Developer In The World? (Alan Skorkin)
• Analyzing AutoMapper performance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Living (Christopher Bennage)
• Think a little, code a little (Mark Needham)
• Scenario Tables for FitNesse (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Daycare As A Kanban System (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• Documenting source code (Gunnar Peipman)
• Project Turing – Data Entry (a mini-tutorial) (Jesse Liberty)
• Own the Feedback (Steve Rowe)
• Testing Random code (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Grouping and Joining Data (Scott Mitchell)
• Dictionary look-up or create made simpler (Damien Guard)
• How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Edit Project Files Directly in Visual Studio (Srinath MS)
• Unflattening a list, or "How to ask ‘how to’" (Kyle Baley)
• Creating a Simple Procedural Workflow using VS 2010 and Windows Workflow WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New WF 4 whitepaper has been published (Matt Milner)
• Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Simplistic Object Copying in .NET (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Twitter Developer Tips From the Guy Who Wrote the Book (Adam DuVander)
• Hiding a DropDownList Behind a JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• A Non-Compressed BlogEngine.NET 1.5 Developer Tip (Dave Burke)
• Reducing the Bounce Rate of Tech Blogs with Subtext and Lucene.net (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery tip – beware anonymous functions in your event handlers (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements (Mike Ormond)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider (Brad Abrams)
• Bing Maps Silverlight: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow (Chris Pietschmann)
• Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight and Refactor Safe Implementation Of INotifyPropertyChanged (Davy Brion)
• Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer] (David Anson)
• Creating A Form – Level 100 (Jesse Liberty)
• Is The Blend 3 Trial Worth The Download? (Joel Cochran)
• Cross Domain Silverlight XAP Access in Silverlight (Karsten Januszewski)
• Applications Using WPF (Mike Taulty)
• Streamlining Csla.Silverlight.InvokeMethod (Rockford Lhotka)
• RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Kim Hamilton and Wes Dyer: Inside .NET Rx and IObservable/IObserver in the BCL (VS 2010) (Charles Torre)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Refactoring and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – AuthChecker Class and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Testability (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Chat with Ian Ellison-Taylor (Mike Taulty)

 

Community / Events

• Patterns of Parallel Programming at PDC 2009 (Ade Miller)
• SharePint – Best Practices DC 2009 Edition (Andrew Woodward)
• Great New Blogger – Skorks.com (Max Pool)
• PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Cloud Security Survey (J.D. Meier)
• Events this Week – August 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Richmond Code Camp 2009.2 is coming up! (Justin Etheredge)
• AltNetBeers #13 – StackOverflow edition (Sebastien Lambla)
• New Microsoft Careers Site: Now with your input! (Lisa Olson)

 

Windows 7

• Microsoft’s Releases "Windows XP Mode" & "Windows Virtual PC" for Windows 7 RC (Blake Handler)
• How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• User Account Control Data Redirection (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

 

Database

• Teaser: Left Join..the SQL ego crusher (Denis Gobo)
• Editing Configuration files : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Tips for the Accidental DBA (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Adding PowerShell to StExBar (Rob Reynolds)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Zoho Calendar Plugin for Microsoft Outlook (Arvind Natarajan)
• Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo (Sumeeth Evans)
• New in Labs: Hide labels, see subject lines on netbooks (Christopher Semturs)
• On C# in Depth and the State of Old School Technical Publishing (Russell Ball)
• What recent computer science graduate should know. (Paul Zubkov)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #405 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 350 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day