Dew Drop – August 7, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Released: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Karin Meier)
• NH Prof New Feature: Diffing Sessions (Oren Eini)
• VB.NET Processing Before WinForm Display (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing LazyLinq: Overview (Keith Dahlby)
• Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster? (Keith Elder)
• Author news: Jeffrey Richter updating CLR via C# (Devon Musgrave)
• Not everything derives from object (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 2) (Subodh Sohoni)
• TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio (Tim Heuer)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Easing Functions in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Expression Studio Resources – now including myself, Adam Kinney (Adam Kinney)
• A Rotating *Solid* Cube in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate (Brad Abrams)
• Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Buying Expression Studio 3 (Joel Cochran)
• WriteableBitmap Extension Methods (Rene Schulte)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tooling is a Third Order Effect (Ade Miller)
• How People Can Get You To Do What They Want (Alan Skorkin)
• Travel Restrictions and Offshore Development (Steve McConnell)
• Multi-site teams: travel and the half life of trust (Bernie Thompson)
• Article: Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing (Michael Kennedy)
• Don’t be lazy about lazy sequences. and As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Moving to Kanban, Did Scrum Fail? (Tim Barcz)
• Refactoring Day 6 : Push Down Field (Sean Chambers)

 

Web Development

• I Hate Global.asax (Harry Pierson)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Finally Available (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MVC Membership Starter Kit Released (Troy Goode)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• Arun Kishan: Inside Windows 7 – Farewell to the Windows Kernel Dispatcher Lock (Charles Torre)
• A Look Behind the Backgrounds of Windows 7 (Larry Larsen)
• MEF and Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• The Complete Guide to Windows Easy Transfer (Nic Fillingham)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #133: Learning how to Read & Write to the windows registry (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Animation – Advanced Topics (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Releases PowerPoint Presentations from the Game Developrs Conference 2009 (Blake Handler)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Microsoft’s Chris Swenson on Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (Me)
• Introducing the new home for Windows on Channel 9 (Charles Torre)
• Real World Azure with Microsoft IT – Coming to a City Near You! (Jennifer Marsman)
• Silverlight at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there! (Tim Heuer)
• Live Feedback Mashup: Tinychat + PollDaddy + Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

 

Database

• Removing time from SQL datetime (Kevin Jones)
• The effects UNION in a SQL query (Joe Webb)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 5) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Keep your SharePoint site definitions minimal, really I mean it. (Joris Poelmans)
• SharePoint Database Tips (Vishwas Lele)

 

Windows 7

• Microsoft Releases "Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers" (Blake Handler)
• Windows® AIK for Windows® 7 (MS Downloads)
• Windows7 was just released for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Oh happy fresh, Windows install day! (Dave Isbitski)
• Windows 7 RTM Training Kit For Developers is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows 7 RTM downloads now available via TechNet and MSDN (Lee Mathews)
• Vista Users – Uninstall Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 before upgrading to Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM – some follow up (MSDN Subscriptions Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Chromium Memory Usage (Ian Fette)
• Crux – Announcement 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Windows 8 Server: Due ~2012 (Stephen Chapman)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #407 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 06, 2009 — #664 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (8/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 6th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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