Dew Drop – August 12, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Statement Trees With Less Pain – Follow-Up on System.Linq.Expressions v4.0 (Bart de Smet)
• Code Name Dublin Tutorial (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio 2010 Adds Support for Debugging, Profiling, Analyzing Parallel Applications (Bruce Kyle)
• TryParse and Generating Random Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Embedding Python Scripts in C# Applications (Harry Pierson)
• How to detect the .NET Framework directory using PowerShell and Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Exceptions Happen, Part 1 (James Bender)
• Launching an Asynchronous Operation Using BackgroundWorker (Jayadev D)
• First Class Composable Events in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• EF Table Splitting – The Opposite of Entity Splitting (Julie Lerman)
• Determining Merge Errors in a Typed DataSet (Srinath MS)

 

Web Development

• Exception Handling Advice for ASP.NET Web Applications (Scott Mitchell)
• Is Basic Authentication Really Insecure? (Alan Skorkin)
• JavaScript: A tool too sharp? (Jimmy Bogard)
• New Windows Azure Blob Features – August 2009 (Brad Calder)
• Inferred Controller Actions (Javier G. Lozano) – Link of the Day
• Tip #91: Did you know … How to automate FTP 7.5 installation and site creation? (Kern Handa)
• Deploying Your First Windows Azure App (Mike Ormond)
• New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
• Script# (Script Sharp) – writing javascript in C# (Roy Osherove)
• Binding a Hashtable to a DropDownList Web Server Control (Deepak Choudhari)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Your Code Worthy Of Being Improved (Alan Skorkin)
• New book: Engineering Software for Accessibility (Devon Musgrave)
• Is Quality an Absolute? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 10. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 11 : Switch to Strategy (Sean Chambers)
• DDDD: The Event Storage Doesn’t Store Commands (Jonathan Oliver)
• Zen Mind, Beginners Mind: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Naming and Body Language in Functional Code (Michael Feathers)
• Open Source, NIH and the meaning of conversation (Sebastien Lambla)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• 4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download (Adam Kinney)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files (Brad Abrams)
• A Fluttering Photo Effect for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• MVP Releases Silverlight Database Diagram Widget (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Expression Studio TuTorialS Starter Kit (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Can I jump to Silverlight 3 now? What do the stats say? (András  Velvárt)
• how do i do… With the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ward Cunningham on the Origin of the Term “Technical Debt” (Bobby Johnson)
• Elliot H Omiya, Larry Osterman and Frank Yerrace: Inside Windows 7 – Audio Stack (Charles Torre)
• 2009.08.11 Expression Blend Design Time Data Using MVVM (Craig Shoemaker)
• Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World (A BBC Documentary) (Stephen Chapman)

 

Community / Events

• Speaking at TechDays 2009, Me (Bil Simser)
• Presentation Patterns on Virtual ALT.Net (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hey…what happened to ArcReady? (Larry Clarkin)
• Announcing Mobile Incubation Week Washington DC! – September 28 – October 2 (John O’Donnell)
• Agile Architecture at Upcoming Conferences (Kirk Knoernschild)
• SQLBits V Training Day and SQL 2008 R2 Day pricing (Martin Bell)
• Temet Nosce (Rob Conery) – Rob leaving MS. Good luck!
• Stack Overflow and Doctype (Jeff Atwood)
• Jet Brains Development Academy Welcomes Another (Tim Barcz)
• Upcoming Talk: Content Syndication With ASP.NET 3.5 (San Diego ASP.NET SIG) (Scott Mitchell)

 

Database

• Some Statement Start Times! (Grant Fritchey)
• DataBase Design & Creation (Jesse Liberty)
• SQL SERVER – Backup master Database Interval – master Database Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic multi-value SQL LIKE (Serge Baranovsky)

 

SharePoint

• Moving Files from Shares to SharePoint and SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types Oh My! (Bob Mixon)

 

Miscellaneous

• Two Microsoft Employees Release "Make Office Better" Website (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Office web apps won’t officially support Chrome, Opera browsers (Brad Linder)
• Emancipating NHibernate from Hibernate? (Oren Eini)
• Upgrading Vista 32 bit to Windows 7 64bit (Dave M. Bush)
• Publish Your Photosynth To Facebook (Sunshine)
• Defrag: Windows 7 Multitouch (Larry Larsen)
• Doing your research before the interview (Kenji Yamaguchi)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #410 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2009 — #667 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 354 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 11th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Microsoft may not kill IE6 until at least 2014 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Interesting Finds: August 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day