Dew Drop – August 23, 2009

 

Posting on Sunday instead of Monday this week. I’m taking a day off with the family tomorrow. Back on Tuesday!

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Perf Tricks and NHibernate Documentation (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts CLR Inside Out Article (Melitta Andersen)
• WCF Extensibility part 4: Applying formatting to operations (Alex Thissen)
• BLinq – Linq to Bing Search APIs (Nikhil Kothari)

 

Web Development

• MyStream: Social Lifestreaming with ASP.NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• Working with Themes in ASP.NET (Sheo Narayan)
• Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using ‘Select a Master Page’ dialog? (Deepak Verma)
• Static Page Checking in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Using Container-Level Access Policies in Windows Azure Storage (Steve Marx)
• jQuery SuperLoad and ASP.NET MVC with jQuery SuperLoad (Sergio Pereira)
• PHP toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services…And My XBox Demo (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ADO.NET Data Services and PHP (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Adding Google Gadgets to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• MvcContrib version control has moved to GitHub (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Important Updates to Live Services: Live Framework CTP Unavailable As of Sept 8 (Kevin Ledley)
• Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control (Chris Pietschmann)
• Last.fm tips and tricks (Donald Bell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visitor Design Pattern and Gang of Four Design Patterns (Richard Carr)
• The Importance of Context (Aaron Lerch)
• Refactoring Day 22 : Break Method and Refactoring Day 23 : Introduce Parameter Object (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)
• RhinoMocks Exploration : RhinoMocks “Caching” Values? (Tim Barcz)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables (Davy Brion)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 11. (Rajiv Popat)
• BOOK: Running an Agile Project (Brad Appleton)
• Using Unity to make Singleton-ness an implementation detail (Brian Button)
• Answer the User’s Questions (Christopher Bennage)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Adding Behaviors Programmatically (Andy Beaulieu)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• A Simple WPF Loading Animation (Brian Lagunas)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure (Brad Abrams)
• How to install cool, custom fonts (like PDC09) into Windows and use it in your Silverlight application (or even Microsoft Word) (Dave Isbitski)
• How to Center a Silverlight App in HTML (Joel Cochran)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages (MS Podcasts)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Azure World Tour 2009 (Steve Marx)
• Party with Palermo: PDC 2009 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)
• an update to the ch-ch-ch-changes and ASP Insiders (Chris Williams)
• Live Meeting with Phil Haack – MVC 2 – 08/26/2009 9am PST – 10 am PST ( 12pm-1pm EST) (Eric Hexter)
• Windows 7 Ship Party: Work hard and play hard (Ginny Cheng)
• New Question Asker Features (Jeff Atwood)
• DevHawk World Tour FY2010 (Harry Pierson)
• Giving up a year of my life (Wendy Friedlander)

 

Database

• SSMS Tip – Display Results in a Separate Tab (Rhonda Tipton)
• SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 Available For Download and Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers (Pinal Dave)
• DAL: Save Data Using a SQL Statement (Deborah Kurata)
• How to fix Flash video performance in Firefox (Jason Clarke)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s PDC09 Releases Free "StarTrek-Like" Windows 7 Font (Blake Handler)
• Fun with PInvoke and Aero Peek (Joel Bennett) – Link of the Day
• 5 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Windows or OS X (Garin Kilpatrick)
• What Everybody Should Know About Installing And Using Java On Ubuntu (Alan Skorkin)
• Your Blog is Your Mothership (Amber Riviere)
• Adobe adds video hosting to Photoshop.com (Brad Linder)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 3 (Martin Bell)
• Marketing Snake Oil (Rob Conery)
• Windows 7 and a Quick Launch Toolbar (Rick Strahl)

 

More Link Collections

• Linkblog, The Sequel (Pete Seale)
• More Consolidated Tech Tweets, It’s Been a Good Week 🙂 (Angela Binkowski)
• Interesting Finds: August 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2009 — #670 and Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2009 — #671 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

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