Dew Drop – August 10, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Whirlwind Tour through the Managed Extensibility Framework (Bart de Smet)
• Windows 7 Code Pack V. 1.0 Released (Charlie Calvert)
• Creating vCard with image in .Net (Gunnar Peipman)
• Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster? (Keith Elder)
• Making Asynchronous WCF calls without SvcUtil (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Next version of EF Code Only Design laid out by MS and Important Entity Framework Query Improvements for .NET 4.0 (Julie Lerman)
• Pygments for Windows Live Writer v1.0.2 (Harry Pierson)

 

Web Development

• Book Review: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Jason Haley)
• Implementing A Multi-Tenant ASP.NET MVC Application with S#arp Architecture (Bobby Johnson)
• Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Creating a Framework (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon (Ryan Lanciaux)
• 10 Add-ons in 60 Seconds or Less: Mix Webslice (Larry Larsen)
• Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Oh what a tangled web we weave, a bug story (Oren Eini)
• Book Club: Object Role Stereotypes (Jeremy Miller) and Coding Dojo #21: TDD as if you meant it revisited and Dreyfus Model: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Imposing the Edges Later (Michael Feathers)
• The Hard Reality… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Ensure test coverage when refactoring to mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• Windsor style convention over configuration in StructureMap and Introducing SpecMaker “Rspec style” BDD in C# (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 7 : Rename (method, class, parameter) and Refactoring Day 8 : Replace Inheritance with Delegation and Refactoring Day 9 : Extract Interface (Sean Chambers)
• Agility Makes Up for Bad Preparation? (Steve Marx)
• Coding Contest: Create a Programming Pearl (Tim Barcz)
• TDD and FP (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Implementing Team City for .NET Projects, Part 5: Deployments (Richard Cirerol)
• The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Compile => CI => Tests, or "How to compile first, test later" (Kyle Baley)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Technology To Think About: .NET RIA Services on the Server (Peter Vogel)
• NHibernate & INotifyPropertyChanged and An easier way to manage INotifyPropertyChanged (Oren Eini)
• Another Rotating 3D Figure for Silverlight 3 and Dodecahedron for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Finding Memory Leaks In Silverlight With WinDbg (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight DataForm and confirming deleting an item (Tim Heuer)
• PowerPoint converter to Silverlight/WPF XAML and x:Uids…should we have UpdateUid to create fewer of them. (Rob Relyea)
• INotifyPropertyChanged auto wiring or how to get rid of redundant code (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 5 is out (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 Element Binding (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta 2 available (Koen Zwikstra)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: Win7 on MSDN, PDC 2009, Drunktender (Brian Keller)
• Herding Code 56: Markus Völter on Model-Driven Development, DSLs and Product Line Engineering (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 79 – PowerScripting Podcast – Listener Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing: Concept Camp (Camp) (Sara J. Chipps)
• patterns & practices Assets Survey (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft’s MVP Award Program Honors Outstanding Technology Influencers (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Virtual ARCHITECT COUNCILs | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Jeff Barnes)
• Upcoming Presentations (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Database

• TSQL Challenge – counting non zero columns and Where is the intelligence in Business Intelligence? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – Multiple CTE in One SELECT Statement Query (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tools Pack – Review (Rhonda Tipton)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 6) (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

PowerShell

• Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules (Jose Barreto)

 

Windows 7

• Microsoft Releases "Final" Windows 7 Hardware Drivers for Keyboards & Mice (Blake Handler)
• Available: Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• Latest Google Chrome dev build adds Windows 7 jumplist support (Lee Mathews)
• Upgrade Windows 7 RC to the Final RTM Release (The How-To Geek)
• What’s new in WMI for Windows 7 (K. Mathur)
• Windows 7 Boot from VHD – A Few Gotchas (Howard Dierking)
• What we do with a bug report? (Steven Sinofski)
• Release Documents for Windows 7 (Steven Bink)
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous

• BOOK: Landing the Tech Job You Love (Brad Appleton)
• OpenGL 3.2 Brings Better Performance (Justin Sargent)
• Refactoring Relationships (Christopher Bennage)
• How much will I REALLY save on Cloud Computing? (Dave Isbitski)
• 1st Microsoft Store in the making (Steven Bink)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 (Taimur Asad)
• New Wrox Covers (Jim Minatel)
• Zune HD Getting Glowing Reviews (Sarah Perez)
• A Language for Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• A Few Speed Improvements and COBOL: Everywhere and Nowhere (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 7, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #408 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2009 — #665 — relinked and Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2009 — #666 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #86 – “Ordinary” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Windows 7: Links for developers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.04 ~ 08.10 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #65 (Grant Palin)
• Links for the Week – 2009.08.07 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Links (8/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/2/2009 through 8/9/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 105 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for 7th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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