Dew Drop – August 13, 2009

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating an MD5 String Extension method in C# (Tom Hearn)
• My latest whitepaper on WCF 4.0 (Aaron Skonnard)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Invoking Python Functions from C# (Without Dynamic) (Harry Pierson)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple reuqests Set Status / Close (Oren Eini)

 

Web Development

• Introducing Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• A simple map function for plain JavaScript arrays (Scott Koon)
• Six Microsoft web development tools you might not be aware of (Keith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Container Configuration (Ariel Raunstien)
• Big Visible Charts,Continuous Integration and Distributed Teams (Ade Miller)
• Facilitation Antipattern: Chicken Little and Facilitation Antipattern: Helpless (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Unused Constructor Dependencies (Eric Anderson)
• Command Query Separation? (Greg Young)
• Refactoring Day 12 : Break Dependencies (Sean Chambers)
• NCover v3.2 Released! (Stephen Ward)
• Leading Agile… the Book? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIII: Mix in this, mix in that (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A Response to 5 Right Reasons to Apply Kanban (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• What I’m up to: P&P guidance for federated identity (Keith Brown)
• Challenging projects and the five stages of grief (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New networking stack in Silverlight 3 (Cheryl Simmons)
• An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and RIA Services – Part I (Malcolm Sheridan)
• From DB to DataGrid – So Many Choices! (Jesse Liberty)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 6 is out (Sacha Barber)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Video

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Evans on IT for Developers (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 30: Database Schema Extensibility (Brian Keller)
• Code Cast 29 – Open Source at Microsoft (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #65 (Jeff Atwood)
• Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young (Kirk Evans)
• SharePoint Pod Show – SharePoint and Code Access Security-Episode 28 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Netcast 19 – Drunk Monkeys (Todd O. Klindt)

 

Community / Events

• A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Silverlight events (Tim Heuer)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Open to All (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Reason for SQL Server Agent Starting Before SQL Server Engine Service (Pinal Dave)
• Mobile DB Performance Testing (Chris Brandsma)
• A Case of Shifting Identity (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Spreading some SharePoint Love to EditorPart (Bil Simser)
• Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) (Waldek Mastykarz)

 

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5 Enhanced for Windows 7 with DirectWrite (Blake Handler)
• New Pluralsight On-Demand! Feature: Downloadable Slides (Aaron Skonnard)
• Why Open Source Rules And Commercial Drools (Alan Skorkin)
• I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social! (Marissa Mayer)
• Windows 7 RTM Training Kit Updates (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The New Dashboard, PAX 2009, and Xbox LIVE Indie Games! (Kathleen Sanders)
• IE6 no more (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Opinion of Windows 7 Thus Far (Stephen Chapman)
• ScaleOut Unveils Management Pack for Parallel Backup (Justin Sargent)
• Enhancements to Remote Presentations in Zoho Show (Raju Vegesna)
• Get-SystemUptime and Working with the WMI Date Format (James Brundage)
• Wondering what skills are needed in the market? (Kim Spilker)
• Windows 7 Ferrari prototype theme available for download (Lee Mathews)
• Greg Shields on Microsoft’s new certifications (Devon Musgrave)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #411 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 12th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

Non-Book of the Day