Dew Drop – August 18, 2009

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• On "Oslo" (Douglas Purdy) – Link of the Day
• Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max and WCF Extensibility part 1: background on game server protocols (Alex Thissen)
• LINQ to Ducks – Bringing Back The Duck-Typed foreach Statement To LINQ (Bart de Smet)
• Book Review: Essential LINQ (Jason Haley)
• How to hinder reflection-based scenarios (Jimmy Bogard)
• C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in Windows (Chris Pietschmann)
• Favorite improvement of Visual Studio 2010 so far… (David Kean)
• Counting Words in a String Using Anonymous Types and Defining Lists of Anonymous Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Using your own code is its own kind of encouragement [How to: Automatically update the widths of ListView columns – updated!] (David Anson)
• Arrays of arrays (Eric Lippert)
• 11 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)
• A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: getting started (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Automating .NET development (and NHibernate) with IronRuby + Rake (Tobin Harris)
• Updating the Command Line Parser (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# First Class Events – Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
• GC Helper for Obtaining Live Instances of a Type, or How I Implemented GC.GetAliveInstancesOf() (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Introducing LazyLinq: Internals (Keith Dahlby)
• MSMQ Studio: Show number of messages in a queue (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action in Stores in September (Ben Scheirman)
• Test Sending Email without a Server in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Rest For ASP.NET MVC SDK and Sample (Phil Haack)
• A few facts about the DinnerNow.net 3.1 sample application (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update Released (Jeff Barnes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When Tools Take Over Your Team Room (Ade Miller)
• Virtually everything and Code Ownership also mean Code Responsibility (Oren Eini)
• Macros Facilitate Expressive Code (Jay Fields)
• “We want it fixed, but don’t spend too much time on it” (Dave Schinkel)
• Zen And The Art Of Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Acceptance Test “Lifecycle” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 2: Store Your Local Settings in the Database – Not the Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Unit Testing Has Changed How I Write Software (Joel Ross)
• The Sculptors (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Back to the Future (Vadim Polner)
• Law of Demeter: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Refactoring Day 17 : Extract Superclass (Sean Chambers)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Helper 3: Now with WPF Support! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 – Pros and Cons (Dan Wahlin)
• Prism And .Net RIA Services (David Hill)
• Moonlight 2.0 beta tries to show off Silverlight 2.0 compatibility (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Adventures in Silverlight 3 Multi-touch, Part I (Jeff Paries)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Ward Bell on Building Modular Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight and WPF (Bob Familiar)
• Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)

 

Community / Events

• Sharing with Google Groups (Jeffrey Chang)
• Don’t Miss FREE 1-Day SharePoint Conference in NYC (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events This Week – August 17th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Super User Now Public (Jeff Atwood)
• MSDN Roadshows in August 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• Slides of My Presentation on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Database

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 CTP (MS Downloads)
• SQL Performance Tuning Basics (Michael Ceranski)

 

SharePoint

• Windows 2008 R2 goodness – adding sharepoint folders to a library (Ishai Sagi)
• Playing around with Powershell and SharePoint user profiles (Joris Poelmans)
• MOSS for Developers – Part 4: Workflows for Developers (Doug Turnure)

 

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Do you have an idea for a book? (Devon Musgrave)
• Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #414 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.11 ~ 08.18 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 358 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 17th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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