Dew Drop – August 21, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility part 2: The big picture and Part 3: Formatting operations (Alex Thissen)
• Adding Nodes to an XML String (Deborah Kurata)
• GetValue() extension method for RegistryKey class (Gunnar Peipman)
• Passing data between layers using Generic list collection (Sheo Narayan)
• Wiring Up Generics In Castle Windsor (John Teague)
• Languages in the 2nd Edition of Programming Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: so many choices (Bertrand Le Roy) – Link of the Day
• F# First Class Events – Creating and Disposing Handlers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• VS2010 Beta1 demos on parallelism (Daniel Moth)
• More on Oslo & Data Programmability merger (Julie Lerman)
• Introducing LazyLinq: Queryability (Keith Dahlby)
• Queueing Theory In Action, plus, frogs (Eric Lippert)
• OpenRasta 2.0 beta 2 is out (Sebastien Lambla)

 

Web Development

• MVP Bridges PHP with Windows Azure (Jas Dhaliwal)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 – Part II – Routing in Webforms (Harish Ranganathan)
• Lower the Cost of Knowing – Instrument your Azure Applications (Bob Familiar)
• Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices (Michael Martin)
• ASP.NET MVC Chained Controller Factory (Maarten Balliauw)
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (Sebastian Holst)
• Framework Agnostic Web Languages (Sara Chipps)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Known Issues can live outside the Issue Tracker and Your UnitTests should have assertions. No, really. (Ariel Raunstien)
• A design question: What do you do with inaccurate data? (Oren Eini)
• Staying Current: A Software Developer’s Responsibility (Jay Fields)
• Avoiding The Perils Of Demo Driven Development. (Rajiv Popat)
• The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling. (Mike Hadlow)
• Refactoring Day 20 : Extract Subclass (Sean Chambers)
• Coding: Unused code (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Silverlight DataContext Proxy to Simplify Data Binding in Nested Controls (Dan Wahlin)
• From SketchFlow to Production (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Coming Soon: Fluid Container Behavior! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Switching themes based on the ambient light? (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Tip: set PerceivedType for .xaml to “text” to get nice preview in explorer (Rob Relyea)
• Ye Olde Pixels – Silverlight 3 Old Movie Pixel Shader (Rene Schulte)
• Sunday Night Football – Powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight and RIA Services – Part II (Malcolm Sheridan)
• HawkCodeBox (Harry Pierson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #194 – Udi Dahan and NServiceBus (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Terrific Ted Talks on Future Technologies (Andrew Maynard)
• This Week C9: IE8 most secure, Unix turns 40, SQL DBA eBook (Brian Keller)
• Element Binding in Silverlight (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Deep Dive into Location (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Adopting Agile… the Video Podcast (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Code Rush: when making software was fun (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Community / Events

• Win ReSharper personal licenses in the Cool Snippets Code-Off (David Ridgway)
• ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Bob Familiar)
• Take Over The World With XNA Indie Games (Chris Williams)
• Real World Azure: Coming to a City Near You! (Steve Marx)
• Attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 for Free! (Gary Lapointe)
• Rate This! (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Query Plan Along with Query Text and Execution Count (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Now Available – MSDN: Building Records Management Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 (Spence Harbar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free eBook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions and "Delicious" Bookmarks2LiveWriter Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
• Edit Albums Collaboratively in Picasa Web (Alex Chitu)
• The Only Truly Failed Project (Jeff Atwood)
• Ideas are a work of art (Joe Webb)
• OneNote 2010 Technical Preview: Hands-on Review (Will Kelly)
• Mozilla chief: Microsoft ballot screen leaves IE ‘uniquely privileged’ (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Wolfram Alpha Has Grown a Lot. You Should Try it Out Again (Stan Schroeder)
• Playing with Bing APIs: Long Zheng’s latest project (cool and fun!) (Kip Kniskern)
• WordPress gets own URL shortener (Rafe Needleman)
• I Love Reviews (Rob Conery)

 

More Link Collections

• New and Notable 361 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 20th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for August 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #417 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2009 — #669 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 20, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (8/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: August 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

Book of the Day