Dew Drop – August 26, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Please, it is just a ‘var’ (Chris Brandsma)
• WCF Extensibility part 5: Make your endpoints behave (Alex Thissen)
• Text Files and Reading Comma Delimited Files and Reading Fixed Length Files and Reading Comma Delimited Files: TextFieldParser and Reading Fixed Length Files: TextFieldParser and Retrieve a DataTable using Microsoft Access and Update a Microsoft Access Database (Deborah Kurata)
• ADO.NET Data Services Logical Operators (Deepak Kapoor)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 2 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series and Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Step by Step to Using MSpec (Machine.Specifications) with ReSharper (Sean Biefeld)
• Long time, no Euler (or YAEPS # 13) (Bill Wagner)
• LINQ to NHibernate: A Vast Improvement (Russell Ball)
• MSDN VSTS2010 doc’s – Modeling User Requirements (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Web Development

• Four Little Known, Helpful Methods, Properties, and Features for ASP.NET Developers (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Validation and ASP.NET MVC Forms (Chris Missal) – Link of the Day
• Highslide JS .NET v4.1.5 (Dave Ward)
• Windows Azure and Live ID Auth! (David Lemphers)
• Requiring SSL For ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dan Wahlin)
• Book review: Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Iframe cross domain JavaScript calls (Mads Kristensen)
• CKEditor 3.0 is out (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using jQuery to Sort a List (Sam Tyson)
• Host .NET Applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers with Mono (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Concepts & Features: A concept cover the whole range, a feature is constrained and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities (Oren Eini)
• Achieve Goals Using the S.M.A.R.T. Method (Azadeh Ensha)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities (Davy Brion)
• The Largest Wicked Problem in Software is Politics and Management (Jak Charlton)
• How to Build Trust Remotely (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Refactoring Day 25 : Introduce Design By Contract checks (Sean Chambers)
• Configuring Team build using XUnit [From Client] (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 12. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Cursor from HCURSOR and A Real WPF WebBrowser and WPF Chromium WebBrowser source code! (Chris Cavanagh)
• A Plethora of Silverlight Behaviors/Triggers (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Get up to speed on SketchFlow FAST (Marc Schweigert)
• MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight and Web Analytics – the Next Generation (Michael S. Scherotter)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Three New Videos on ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET Site)
• Silviu Calinoiu: Inside Windows 7 – Fault Tolerant Heap (Charles Torre)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “My experiment worked! (Prototyping)” (Devon Musgrave)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2009: The Scrum Bestiary, A Behavioral Taxonomy (Ade Miller)
• Behind the scenes with the woman who’ll be staffing the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, AZ (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio Team System Rangers Web Site Goes Live (Brian Keller)
• Lacking Confidence (Christopher Bennage)
• MVPs Headline at Epicenter! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Did You Know: Free SQL Server Training on SQL Saturday (Kalen Delaney)
• Entity Framework Tips & Tricks webcast this Thursday! (Julie Lerman)

 

Database

• SQL Azure Manager (Maarten Balliauw)
• SQL Server Express – A Complete Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• How to Setup Database Mirroring (Michael Ceranski)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint – What’s It Good For? A Health Care Mini Case Study (Paul Galvin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Updated ImageResizer PowerToy 2.0 for Windows 7 and 50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students, Librarians & Everybody Else (Blake Handler)
• More Advanced Ruby Method Arguments – Hashes And Block Basics (Alan Skorkin)
• www.officelabs.com and Garage: How Microsoft Supports Grassroots Innovation (Kirill Osenkov)
• Windows 7 Virtual PC FTW (For The Win) for virtual workstation development (Eric Hexter)
• Weird things said in job interviews: Part 2 (Anne Cheng)
• RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal) (Robert Scoble)
• Alton Brown: Safe and Scary Kitchen Hacks (Wilson Rothman)
• Helveticons (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #420 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2009 — #674 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 362 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 25th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 33 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

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